We have over 15 years of experience finding new homes and new usefulness for unwanted items. Our business model prioritizes redistributing items locally rather than sending them off to unknown markets, and we collaborate with recycling/e-cycling industry leaders to follow best practices and co-design systems that promote more reuse.
Last year we processed 278 tons of donated materials at our donation center – that’s 556,000 pounds!
Over this next year we aim to increase our rescued materials by an additional 90,000 pounds.
We’re currently able to place about 20% of donated items directly back into local circulation, a number we hope to double over our next year of operation.
The remaining viable items are recycled or sent in bulk to larger organizations for repurposing.
Just because something has outlived its usefulness in one area doesn’t mean that it can’t move on to different purposes and new horizons. Our team brings creativity, innovation, and a focus on adaptive life cycle sustainability to the process of reusing, recycling, and repurposing the donated items we receive.
Our repurposing programs offer opportunities for team members to learn and apply new industries and skill sets in the realms of recycling, e-cycling, sustainability, and more.
Our repurposing center team enjoys an inclusive, diverse workspace where everyone balances taking on exciting new challenges with playing to their strengths.
We work with amazing community partners to offer employment opportunities of choice to individuals who need ongoing support with a variety of job skills.
We’re proud to have the capacity to accept and repurpose a wide variety of items.
Rehoming:
Electronics Recycling
We accept old electronics for our certified e-cycling program:
Please wipe or remove your hard drive before donating items with data storage. While we make every effort to carefully process donated items, we cannot be liable or responsible for any later misuse of information left on donated technology.
Scrap Metal Recycling
We accept items made from steel, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, brass, and tin:
We are always looking for initiatives and partnerships that will allow us to accept a wider variety of items to repurpose, but we are operating within some limitations.
We are currently unable to accept the following items:
If you need help finding a home for any of the items we can’t accept, feel free to ask us for suggestions on local partners who might be able to accept them.
6929 NE Halsey St
Portland OR 97213
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503-223-7279
info@thearcpdx.org