On July 15th we held a groundbreaking ceremony for our brand new recycling depot and processing facility! We hope this facility will be operational in early 2020. The seed for this facility was planted in 2016 when Southern Oregon Aspire could no longer accept and process more than 2 million pounds of recyclable material after
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This year’s Household Hazardous Waste event will be at the Josephine County Fairgrounds Time: 9 am – 3 pm Location: 1451 Fairgrounds Rd, Grants Pass, OR 97527 No paint will be accepted. For more information on how to safely dispose of paint, please visit paintcare.org. Sponsored by:
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Together with the communities we serve, we have reduced recycling contamination to a suitable level within the local recycling markets. This means the material you are putting in your curbside recycling carts will no longer be landfill ed and instead turned into something new!
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Please note: The only #2 plastics accepted curbside are the milk jug style containers.
read moreGrants Pass, OR – Southern Oregon Sanitation (SOS) has, for the past year, been watching the complex Global Recycling Crises. During this time, recycled material has stockpiled all over the world or ended up in landfills with the approval of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). It is now clear that the recycling situation will
read moreDo you participate in our Curbside Yard Debris Program? We need your help in keeping one of the biggest contaminants we are seeing recently, out of the yard debris carts. Plastic bags are not compostable so all yard debris such as; brush, leaves, grass clippings, plant prunings, weeds, and woody materials up to 2 inches
read moreRecycling efforts at SOS have not changed, we are still picking up curbside recycling on your regular scheduled day. Change is coming, but it’s not here yet! It is key to follow these simple recycling tips for success; Keep it clean. Recycling should be clean and free of any food. If you wouldn’t want it
read moreGrants Pass, OR – Southern Oregon Sanitation (SOS) continues to keep all stakeholders in the current recycle crisis informed with the most current information. As directed by the Counties and Cities we operate recycle routes in, SOS has requested and received from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) a Conditional Material Handling Concurrence. This concurrence
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