The City of Forest Grove is a member of the Washington County Cooperative Recycling Program which includes Washington County and the cities of Banks, Cornelius, Durham, Forest Grove, Hillsboro, King City, North Plains, Sherwood, Tigard, and Tualatin.

Washington County administers the solid waste and recycling program, and serves all residential, commercial, multi-family, and public sectors within the Washington County Cooperative. The program provides waste reduction and recycling oversight, education and planning for the Cooperative agencies.  The Cooperative offers comprehensive information for residences, apartment complexes, and the workplace on its website at http://www.recyclewise.org/.

Electronics Recycling 

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Waste Management 
WASHINGTON COUNTY RECYCLING VIDEO

Contact:
Washington County Solid Waste and Recycling
155 North 1st Avenue, Suite 160
Hillsboro, OR  97124
v: 503.846.8609
f: 503-846.4490
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Master Recyclers take a nine-week course on the latest information on waste prevention and recycling. They then promise to volunteer 30 hours to share this information with their neighbors, co-workers, and community. Additional information: www.masterrecycler.org, 503-823-7530, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   

Expanded Plastics Collection:  Tubs and Buckets and Pails – Oh My!

Recycle More Plastics Now!  No longer is “check the neck” the standard for recycling plastics. Regardless of whether you tote your red bins or a roll cart to the curb on collection day, you can all recycle the same materials. Residents may now add plastic margarine, yogurt, and cottage cheese tubs/containers 6 ounces and larger, and rigid buckets and nursery plant pots 4 inches to 5 gallons in size. All materials must be rinsed clean of food, soil, or drink residue before setting out for recycling collection.    Expanded Plastics

Please keep plastic lids and spray-pumps out of residential recycling. Plastic lids can be recycled at a local depot or at a Master Recycler Plastics Roundup. For more info rmation about the February Plastics Roundup in Washington County, log on to www.masterrecycler.org and click on “Plastics Roundups.”

Master Recycler Plastics Roundup:  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Your Plastics!Bring those hard-to-recycle plastics to a Master Recyclers Plastic Roundup where they will collect your unwanted plastics.  Agri-Plas, a recycler located in Brooks, Oregon, will then recycle these plastics into new products.

Two Event Locations:  February 9, 2008,     9:00 - 2:00 PM
Hillsboro -- Westview High School, 4200 NW 185th Avenue
Lake Oswego -- Shorenstein Realty Services LP and Autodesk, Inc., 5400 Meadows Road

 Acceptable Material