Orcas Island ExchangeNEWS
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Earth Day Weekend 2019 & Call To Artists!
If the Great Islands Clean Up on April 20 isn't enough for you, make sure you join us the following...
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Hazardous Waste Roundup March 8th
After years of once-a-year pickups that many of us missed, ORS and San Juan County have finally introduced quarterly collection...
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Exchange Online Store Launches
For months we have been discussing how to launch an online store that would first take into consideration our local...
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Paint Recycling Now Available at The Exchange
ORS is now a recycling center for latex paint! Gather up your old, leftover, or unwanted latex paint (liquid form)...
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INSPIRATION
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A Big Thanks to AmeriCorps
Our heartfelt thanks go out to the AmeriCorps workers who volunteered their help to Orcas Recycling Services in February. Eleven...
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Keeping Waste Local: Need a Garbage Can?
ORS was recently approached by Lotioncrafter, one of our awesome local companies, about what to do with the excess 55...
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SAVE THE DATE: Great Islands Clean Up Spring 2019
Saturday, April 20, 2019 will be our next Great Islands Clean Up event from 10am to 2pm. Be sure to...
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Awesome “Talking Trash” Community Forum!
On November 3rd more than 30 committed folks joined ORS/The Exchange in a community forum to visualize the future of the...
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KNOWLEDGE
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Film Inspires Plastic Free Living
On March 7th the Seaview Theater in Eastsound was packed for a screening of the beautifully-made but disturbing film “A Plastic...
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Where Does All the Food Waste Go?
Late last year when the nation-wide recycling crisis consumed the news, we decided to push forward on our Recycle 2.0...
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Be Mindful of Holiday Packaging
It's that time of year again when you order stuff online (yes, most of us do it) and we get...
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Solving the Plastic Packaging Problem
Recycle 2.0 was launched with the purpose of continuing education on the current worldwide recycling challenges. Plastics are a big...
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