GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Southern Oregon Sanitation in Grants Pass is hosting a free hazardous waste drop-off this Saturday. Residents can drop off up to one cubic yard of household hazardous waste at no charge. This is thanks to the Josephine County ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — The local non-profit, Access, was awarded the non-profit Recycler of the Year award by the Association of Oregon Recyclers on Friday. In 2018, Access kept more than 2.2 million pounds of food from going into landfills. They ...
Jackson County, Ore. — In the state of Oregon, textiles – including towels, clothing, and sheets – make up more than 2% of the state’s waste, that equals around 66,000 tons every year. Now, recycling programs in Jackson County are ...
DISCLAIMER: Just a warning, while this story is fascinating – it’s also kind of gross. If you’re eating dinner, you may want to look away. White City, Ore. — Only on NBC5 News — we recently ran a story about ...
Benton County, Wash. (KING) — A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at Washington’s Hanford Site has expanded significantly. After leak detector alarms sounded early Sunday morning, crews at Hanford lowered a camera into the two-foot-wide space between ...