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Mend & Make Marvelous: Two Clark County businesses help customers get the most out of their clothes

March 26, 2023, 6:04am Business

Maybe you’ve got a bundle of clothes taking up space in your closet or drawers, stuck in waiting-to-be-mended limbo. Maybe it’s your favorite sweater from 1987 with moth holes, your… Read story

Reducing, recycling easy in Clark County — but also tricky

January 15, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life

Still swimming in cardboard boxes, block foam, bubble wrap and colored lights — not to mention that bizarrely off-the-mark present from you-know-who? Read story

The Boy Scouts will hold their annual Christmas tree recycling event on Jan. 7.

Recycle Christmas tree, holiday lights in Clark County

The Boy Scouts will hold their annual Christmas tree recycling event on Jan. 7.

December 26, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

Now that the holiday is over, Clark County Public Health urges everyone to keep their Christmas trees — those symbols of rebirth and renewal, the generosity of nature, the goodness of God, take your pick — from becoming nothing but garbage. Read story

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Reuse, reduce, recycle for greener holiday season in Clark County

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December 22, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

Gifts and wrapping paper, lights and decorations, yummy things to nibble and nosh. Sounds delightful, but there’s a downside to all that seasonal celebration: vast amounts of extra trash. Read story

A shopper walks in front of a Loop return bin Tuesday at the Grand Central Fred Meyer. The company is partnering with Loop, which offers reusable packaging for select groceries.

Reusable packaging gets in the Loop at Fred Meyer stores

A shopper walks in front of a Loop return bin Tuesday at the Grand Central Fred Meyer. The company is partnering with Loop, which offers reusable packaging for select groceries.

March 1, 2022, 6:03am Business

Grocery shoppers are used to buying food knowing that the containers the food is in will either have to be thrown away or recycled. But now for shoppers at Portland-area Fred Meyer stores, there’s a third option: they can be reused. Read story

Patty Page has helped organize a recycling effort at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver for the past decade.

What really happens to plastics intended for recycling in Clark County?

Patty Page has helped organize a recycling effort at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver for the past decade.

November 7, 2021, 6:05am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

Tracking disposal of packaging, products a complex task that frustrates those seeking to boost recycling, cut down on trash Read story

Waste Connections' new RecyclePlus service collects items that can't go in the blue bins.

Waste Connections launches RecyclePlus program in Vancouver

Waste Connections' new RecyclePlus service collects items that can't go in the blue bins.

September 3, 2021, 6:01am Business

Conservation-minded Vancouver residents now have not one but two new services that collect hard-to-recycle items. Read story

Taylor Loewen, Southwest Washington manager for Ridwell, sits on a bale of clamshells collected for recycling by Green Impact Plastics. Ridwell, which collects hard-to-recycle items, is launching service in Vancouver, Hazel Dell and Salmon Creek.

Ridwell launches collection of hard-to-recycle items in Vancouver

Taylor Loewen, Southwest Washington manager for Ridwell, sits on a bale of clamshells collected for recycling by Green Impact Plastics. Ridwell, which collects hard-to-recycle items, is launching service in Vancouver, Hazel Dell and Salmon Creek.

June 17, 2021, 12:04pm Clark County Life

If you are piling up plastic grocery bags, ratty clothes and burnt-out lightbulbs that you can’t bring yourself to throw into the garbage bin because you’re just sure there must be a better way to dispose of them, well, you’re right. Read story

A recycling bin sits outside a Vancouver home. Officials from Clark County, the city of Vancouver and Waste Connections estimate as many as two-thirds of area residents are contaminating their recycling bins with materials that can’t be recycled.

Yearlong program to spot-check recycling carts in Clark County

A recycling bin sits outside a Vancouver home. Officials from Clark County, the city of Vancouver and Waste Connections estimate as many as two-thirds of area residents are contaminating their recycling bins with materials that can’t be recycled.

January 18, 2020, 6:05am Clark County News

Recycling specialists are again heading into Clark County neighborhoods for spot-checks on what should not be placed in blue recycling carts. Read story

Vancouver Public Works AmeriCorps member Shane Carter discusses items that are not compostable during a lunch-and-learn class offered by Vancouver&#039;s solid waste department at Columbia Bank&#039;s Community Room in Vancouver.

Get the scoop on composting with ‘Organics 101’ class in Vancouver

Vancouver Public Works AmeriCorps member Shane Carter discusses items that are not compostable during a lunch-and-learn class offered by Vancouver&#039;s solid waste department at Columbia Bank&#039;s Community Room in Vancouver.

December 20, 2019, 6:04am Clark County Life

You’re not the only one still trying to figure out the curbside organics collection service rolled out in October for Vancouver residents. Read story