Recycling Best Practices
200 Market Building is a LEED Platinum EB Building and we encourage every tenant to reduce,
reuse and recycle all items that enter the building. In addition, we monitor and track our waste
and recycling efforts in the EPA WasteWise website.
Recycling here in the building is as simple as following the City of Portland recycling guidelines.
You are provided desk side recycling boxes at no charge and will be provided with a small
composting container upon request. Contact the Management Office or Portland Business
Alliance located in the lobby for posters and flyers on recycling.
Aluminum Cans, Plastic
Tubs, Plastic Bottles &
Paper
Cardboard Recycling
Composting
Electronics
Furniture/Office Items
Glass Bottle Recycling
Printer Cartridges
Tyvek Envelopes
Items not on the list?
Place clean items in your deskside recycling container. Pull out
from your desk when ready to be emptied by janitors.
Flatten box and lay next to recycling containers
Kitchen scraps will be picked up by the janitorial staff and added
to our restaurant composting. Suggestions for containers are
listed below and can be seen in the Management Office.
Call management office for pickup of computers, monitors,
telephones, keyboards, etc. They are sent to a reputable
recycling facility.
Send a picture to the Management Office and we will send to our
tenants to hopefully be reused.
Use separate container (no broken glass or sheet glass). Janitors
will empty when the container is full.
Recycle through the manufacturer/office supply company at no
charge.
Send to Dupont for recycling. Procedures can be found on their
website: www2.dupont.com/Tyvek_Envelopes
Go to Earth911.com and enter your zip code for a recycler near
you.
Want to do more for the environment?
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Office Max uses corrugated boxes to ship office supplies that can be reused instead of
standard cardboard which is recycled and manufactured again. Office Max will pick up
the corrugated boxes to be re-used again and again.
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Recycle hardbound books like law books: www.paperpeoplenw.com/recycling.html
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Check Greendisk.com
for recycling your “Technotrash” through their Pack-It
services. Items such as CD/DVD/VHS, hard disks, film, rechargeable batteries.
Headquartered in Sammamish, Washington they have shipping containers for just about
all your technical trash.
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Are you using disposable hand soap dispensers in your kitchen? Refill those containers
to save money instead of throwing them out and buying new ones. Products like Method
can be found at local stores.
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Take a moment to look at how much trash is in each individual’s desk trash can that
uses a plastic liner. You’ll probably find only a small amount of items like tissues, snack
wrappers, etc. Try using small pitch containers that can be hooked to the side of your
desk side recycling boxes for dry trash which won’t require a plastic liner. Wet items can
be placed in a central location in a trash can with a liner or composted. Think of all the
plastic that won’t be going into our landfills! We’re using them in the Management Office
and rarely filling them.
Come take a look!!
RESOURCES:
City of Portland Sustainability at Work
Composting Containers
or Amazon
BioBags for Compost Containers
Paper Pitch Receptacle
www.sustainabilityatworkpdx.com.
www.planetnatural.com Item # 894
www.amazon.com
www.planetnatural.com Item # 1948
www.Jthayer.com Item # SAF2944BL