Cleaning up the yard, garage, closet or basement? Bring your stuff to one of the SWNI Cleanups to recycle held the 2nd Saturday in May and the 1st Saturday in November, at the Portland Christian Center, 5700 SW Dosch Road, from 9 am to 1 pm.
Cars and trucks making their way thru the various recycle stations. Fall 2007
Acceptable items
• Yard debris and wood items: For yard debris, include basically anything that grows in your yard, such as weeds (knock off as much dirt as possible), leaves, vines (including morning glory and berry vines), grass clippings, prunings (no bigger than 12” in diameter and 8’ long), fallen fruit from your fruit trees, vegetation from your garden. It is OK to include diseased plants/leaves. Wood items can include solid wood, furniture, fencing (no brackets or hinges; nails are OK), and yard debris.
•Bulky items: Oversized items for disposal (furniture including: couches, chairs, mattresses, baby furniture, exercise equipment, glass, etc.)
•Scrap metal: Containers need to be empty – no liquids. Acceptable items include appliances, toasters, ladders, empty buckets, etc. Call SWNI at 503-823-4592 to make arrangements in advance to pick up large appliances at your home.
•Computers/Electronics: Computers, phones, fax, TV’s, etc. There is an extra charge for this service: monitors ($10 ea) and TV’s ($25 ea), projection TV’s ($45 ea), all other office equipment ($.25/lb - $5 min.). This fee will be collected at the electronics collection site.
Unacceptable items:
NO hazardous waste (call Metro Recycling, 503-234-3000), kitchen garbage, stumps, oversized branches, rocks, ashes, asbestos, animal waste, explosives, radioactive or commercial waste.
How much?
Suggested fees will be asked to help recover related organizational costs generated in sponsoring this event. We are requesting $10 per carload (each trip) plus additional charges for computer/electronics to help cover these additional costs.
Reusable items for charity
William Temple House is picking up items for charity:
Acceptable items:
Men’s, women’s, children and baby clothing that is clean and in good condition; furniture; antiques; books; small electrical appliances; jewelry; artwork; cookware and housewares; clean bedding and linens; holiday and seasonal items; and area rugs.
Unacceptable items:
Mattresses; exercise equipment; large appliances including washers, dryers and refrigerators; BBQs and lawn mowers; window shades and window blinds; metal desks; console televisions and stereos, empty TV cabinets or TVs that have been stripped; swing sets; encyclopedias; bathroom and kitchen fixtures; wall-to-wall carpet, carpet scraps and carpet pads. These items can be recycled at the cleanup or donated to another agency at another time.
Are you a senior citizen or have a disability?
Let us help! If you are a senior and/or a disabled citizen and need help getting your stuff to the cleanup, contact us at 503-823-4592 to schedule a pickup. These pickups are done by volunteers, so we must limit the amount to one pickup load per address and request that you have all items in your driveway or placed where our volunteers have easy access to them.
Deadline to regish4ter for a pickup is 5 pm, Wednesday, October 31st.
Volunteer getting directions to the next senior pickup. Fall 2007
Volunteers needed!
Do you have a couple of hours? We need volunteers to direct traffic; unload yard debris from cars and trucks into dumpsters; and assist drivers pick up debris from seniors and disabled. Do you have a truck? We need volunteers with trucks to help with our senior and/or disabled citizens pickup. If you are interested in helping, contact the Southwest Neighborhoods office at 503-823-4592.
SWNI/SOLV Litter Patrol
Help keep our streets clean.There is a ton of trash waiting for us on Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, Multnomah Blvd, Capitol Hwy and Bertha Blvd., so I hope you will plan to join us. We need lots of people so please come and bring a friend.
Fall 2007 SWNI/SOLV Litter Patrol volunteers. Karen Johnson is in the front row second from the right.
Bring a friend! There is plenty of garbage for everyone. Bring in your yard debris and other household junk and then stay for an hour or two to help pickup litter. SWNI provides lots of food for the volunteers; continental breakfast, pizza for lunch and lots of coffee, hot chocolate and juices. Let me know if you plan to attend so we can plan the amount of food to have.
If you are not a SWNI/SOLV Patrol member and want to join our efforts, call Karen Johnson 503-245-9069 to sign up or for more information.
These events are co-sponsored by Office of Sustainable Development and METRO.
Thank you to Heiberg Garbage & Recycling, Anfield & Sons Metal Recyclers, Retronics, and William Temple House for helping to make these events a great success! Unless noted otherwise all photos by Victor von Salza.