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Tag: Department of Environmental Quality


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Oregon Works Toward a Modern, Resilient Recycling System

February 5, 2020

Via: Waste360

Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and its partners are working together through a recently developed Recycling Steering Committee to update and modernize the state’s recycling system, which was heavily disrupted in 2017 after international markets began restricting acceptance of […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Oregon Struggles to Meet Recycling Goals

December 1, 2017

Via: Waste360

A recent report from the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) shows that Oregon fell short of its 2016 goals to reduce the amount of waste generated by Oregonians. Last year, Oregon recovered 42.6 percent of all waste generated, which […]