Oregon E-Cycles: In Oregon, it’s free and easy to safely recycle TVs, computers, printers, monitors, and tablets through a no-cost statewide program known as Oregon E-Cycles After more than a year plus of COVID-19 quarantine, are you feeling a little cramped? Feeling like there’s too much stuff and not enough space? If your excess stuff includes electronics that you no longer use, you’re in good company. Over two-thirds of households in Oregon report that they have old, unused electronics taking up space in their home. And many share the concern that they want to dispose of them safely, to keep our state free from the hazardous materials they may contain,…
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Leave the Leaves
It is fall again, and we have harvested all of our garden produce and are making sure our outside faucets are protected against winter’s freeze. The leaves are changing color and tumbling from the trees—and that means fall cleanup in the yard and garden. For many people fall cleanup means cutting all the seed heads and stems off the flowers and raking up all of the leaves. A tidy garden and yard are what many people strive to achieve. Everything clipped back, leaves raked and removed, messy piles of branches put in the green bin for pick up. This tidiness may look nice to us, but it is not good…
