PDX Recycling Vendors

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Who to call and when

In 2004, Free Geek recycled 226 tons of material. We could not have done this without our material handlers who pay us to separate the stuff and actually do the recycling. In order to keep Free Geek from being crushed under the weight of our bad or obsolete donations, a fair amount of phone calls, e-mails, and fork-lifting is required...

Check out the Recycling Status Page

Schnitzer Steel

503-286-6970
contact: dispatch
Lead Time: 1 day
What: Steel

We have to call, because the steel dumpster now gets picked only on demand. Only steel in there, no plastic, or other non-steel items, please.

Calbag

http://www.calbag.com
(503) 226-3441
(800) 398-3441
CONTACT: Doug
LEAD TIME: 1 business day
CAPACITY: 18 gaylords single stacked minimum and 3+ barrels
WHAT: Wire, Motors, Hard Drives, Controller Boards, Keyboards,CBM, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Fans, Speakers, Monitors, Scanners, Powersupplies, Printers, Circuit Boards, Laptop parts

Denton Plastics

(503) 257-9945
CONTACT: Daniel

ask for Bob Decker, he is the shipping/receiving coordinator

LEAD TIME: 1 Business Day, call before 2pm
CAPACITY: 24 Gaylords
WHAT: Sorted PC Plastics (or unsorted)

Technology Conservation Group (TCG)

(503) 735-1102
http://www.tcgrecycling.com/home.htm
CONTACT: Kristoffer McGill
LEAD TIME: 1 business day
CAPACITY: 8 gaylords (minimum 6 required to send service truck)
WHAT: nothing at this time

Total Reclaim

http://totalreclaim.com/ (email contact is yvonne@...)
CONTACT: Yvonne Pascal
PHONE: (206) 343-7443

No more trailer, all monitors now go to CalBag.

Waste Connections, Inc.

12820 N.E. Marx
Portland, OR 97230
(503) 257-1331
(800) 285-2601
FAX (503) 257-8699
CONTACT: Brannon Yeldell, brannony@wastecon___tions.com (fill in the blanks in the email...but don't post it in the wiki!)
WHAT: Trash, cardboard, paper, glass

They will be picked up once a week but this can change if we request it.

ReCellular

http://www.recellular.net/home/home.asp
WHAT: Cell phones, cell phone batteries, cell phone chargers.
WHAT NOT: Cordless phones, other phones, non-cell batteries or chargers.
FIND OUT: Beepers?
CONTACT: Steve, (734) 205-2271

RBRC

(Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation)

http://www.rbrc.org/call2recycle/
Contact:1-800-pick-ups(742-5877)

We don't actually contact RBRC, we just need to get the filled boxes into the hand of a UPS person. We can take the boxes to a UPS store for free, or have them picked up for a fee($10.45). RBRC will then send us more boxen. Our order stand at 8 empty boxen at a time.

How: Boxen come with bags. One battery per bag. If battery is too big for the bag, tape up the end of the terminal.
What: Portable rechargeable batteries, including laptop batteries
What not: ups batteries

Metro Recycling

6161 N.W. 61st Ave., Portland, OR 97210
(503) 223-8133
FAX: (503) 223-8020
http://www.metro-region.org/
CONTACT: Marcus D. Young -- youngm@m__ro.dst.or.us (fill in the blanks in the email...but don't post it in the wiki!)
CAPACITY: Small bucketloads
WHAT: Batteries = NON-Recyclable ONLY

Sorted batteries can be taken to Metro for processing, but we need to take it to them. Batteries that came out of the home have free recycling (the state pays for it), and we need to emphasize every time we're there that we are not generating these ourselves, that they are a byproduct of home computer use, that we are an organization that transfers them to Metro. In 1993 the EPA made a change in the formula for Alkaline batteries to lower the amount of metals in them, and then changed their administrative ruling to allow Alkalines to go into a landfill. At the moment, to our knowledge, all Alkalines go into the landfill. Further information on alkaline battery recycling is needed.