Orcas Island ExchangeNEWS
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Fall Great Islands Clean Up
Join us on National Public Lands Day, Saturday, September 28, from 10am - 2pm as we clean up the roads...
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Orcas Transfer Station Charges to Go Up in October
Eastsound WA—Due to continuing turmoil and skyrocketing prices in the recycling industry, and greater expenses over all, Orcas Recycling Services...
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Round-Up for Real Recycling!
Help ORS build a recycling facility on Orcas. The recycling system in America is currently broken. And while we can’t...
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Zero Waste Mulch is Back for Spring
For a couple of years now we have been accepting clean green yard-waste material at a significant discount. We just did our second...
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INSPIRATION
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Design the New Exchange T-shirt
Since 2013 The Exchange has literally risen out of the embers. The current T-shirt logo represents the success we've had...
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Step-by-Step to Recycling Plastics
The NPR recently published a helpful infographic on the in’s and out’s of plastic recycling. If you were not already...
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Amazing Earth Day Weekend
On Saturday, April 20, almost 100 people cared for our islands by picking up 1,940 pounds of trash. The following...
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Great Islands Clean Up Spring 2019 A Success
Thanks to EVERYONE who participated in this year's Spring 2019 Great Islands Clean Up! Almost 6,000 pounds of litter was...
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KNOWLEDGE
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Upcoming Workshops at The Exchange
SEW4ZEROWASTE Thursday, September 26 (4pm-6pm) at The Exchange Annex - contact asifa@exchangeorcas.org Make Your Own Beeswax Wrap Saturday, October 26...
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Fall Household Hazardous Waste Round-up: Saturday, October 5th
The next Household Hazardous Waste Round-up will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, October 5th. Bring us...
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Docents Make a Difference
ORS has been doing a separation of cardboard pilot program for the past 10 weeks. In order to help customers...
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ORS Separating Cardboard
Orcas Recycling Services has taken a major step in how we recycle, and we could use your help. Since May...
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