PDX Recycling Vendors

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

Bob's Metals

(503)781-0588
CONTACT: Bob

Waste Connections now takes our steel.

Calbag

http://www.calbag.com
(503) 226-3441
(800) 398-3441
CONTACT: Doug
LEAD TIME: 1 business day
CAPACITY: 18 gaylords single stacked minimum
WHAT: Wire, Motors, Hard Drives (Minus controller boards), Keyboards, CBM, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Fans, Speakers, Monitors, Scanners

Denton Plastics

(503) 257-9945
CONTACT: Daniel
LEAD TIME: 1 Business Day
CAPACITY: 24 Gaylords
WHAT: Sorted PC Plastics

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: Plastic, processors, memory, circuitboards

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 and steel
On March 1 Waste Connections will begin handling Free Geek's cardboard and trash, replacing our 1-yard containers from TrashCo with 2-yard containers. They will be picked up once a week but th contract can change if we request it.

They also have offered us a larger weekly rebate on steel pickups. Brannon should be contacted when we want to start that.

ReCellular

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

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.