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Weird Recycling. ○Two HazWaste facilities, plus Roundups = 60K customers for 4 million pounds of waste per year. ○Disposal costs are in the ballpark of.

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1 Weird Recycling

2 ○Two HazWaste facilities, plus Roundups = 60K customers for 4 million pounds of waste per year. ○Disposal costs are in the ballpark of $1 per pound. ○Reuse program diverts 200K pounds per year.

3 ●$3.00 per cylinder. ●Green Key 2008 - 2009. ●Drywall anchor: 11,000 - 12,000 per year. ●Dignity Village: 7,000 - 8,000 per year.

4 Mike Suri - Artist

5 63 FR 11084

6 125,000 per year

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8 Jake Rankin Artist

9 1500 pounds of used Tyvek per year. Garment Recovery Systems

10 Wires/Electronics: Free Geek Printer Cartridges: Recycle First (WM) Cell Phones: Volunteers for America

11 www.medicalteams.org Hospitals in the U.S. produce more than 5.9 million tons of waste annually. ●Weird Recycling: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast 12/2011 In 2012, MedWish diverted about 400,000 pounds of usable medical surplus from disposal.

12 Centennial High School Metal Shop Mark Watts

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15 Thank you! Andrew Judkins Weird Recycler andrew.judkins@oregonmetro.gov


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