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♻️ How Oregon is pioneering recycling
December 10, 2024 · — Adrian González
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♻️ Oregon Puts Packaging Costs on Businesses
The state is set to launch the country’s first recycling program funded by companies’ waste next year, requiring businesses with global revenues over $5 million — both local and out-of-state — to pay fees based on the environmental impact of their packaging. The program is part of the Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act that passed in 2021 and is expecting full implementation by 2028. [OPB]
🏗️ Renewed Hope for Portland’s Container Hub
The Port of Portland announced a tentative deal with Harbor Industrial to operate Terminal 6, Oregon’s only international container terminal, pending the approval of $25 million in state funding from Gov. Kotek’s proposed budget. [Oregonian 🔒]
🎿 Who’s Buying Oregon’s Big Ski Resort?
Utah-based Powdr Corp. is selling Mt. Bachelor, the largest ski resort in the Pacific Northwest, attracting both major ski resort companies and a group of central Oregonians looking to bid for “their backyard.” Details of the sale are private, but the buying price is expected to exceed $200 million. [OPB]
Women are coming over, being shipped to Flushing, New York, and Southern California, and then kind of being shuttled across the country.
🔎 Inside Portland's Unseen Human Trafficking Crisis
The number of illegal massage parlors in Portland has tripled in the past five years, with many linked to human trafficking and abuse of undocumented women. Eliza Aronson joins the CIty Cast Portland podcast to share what she uncovered in her investigation for Willamette Week. [City Cast Portland 🎧]
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What To Do
Tuesday, Dec. 10
- ⛸️ OMSI on Ice | 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Timed Entry) | $9 | OMSI
- 🎬 ‘Millers Crossing’ Screening | 7 p.m. | $10 | Clinton Street Theater
- 🎤 ‘The Moth’ Live | 7:30 p.m. | $58.65+ | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
- 🎫 Samantha Fish in Concert | 8 p.m. | $56.33 | Revolution Hall
Wednesday, Dec. 11
- 🥕 People’s Farmers Market | 2 - 6 p.m. | Free | Hosford-Abernethy
- 🧶 Hump Day Hobbies: Free, Informal Hobby Circle | 6 - 8 p.m. | Free | Beavercreek, Ore.
- 📖 Silent Book Club | 6:30 p.m. | Free | Leikam Brewing (Mt. Tabor neighborhood)
- 💬 Author Talk: Seth Lorinczi | 7 - 9 p.m. | $13.76+ | Eastside Jewish Commons
If you’re looking for something fun to read on your lunch break, here’s a story that goes deep on the gorgeous new timber canopy at PDX.
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