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Causes: Environment, Recycling
Mission: Provide facilities for the community to reduce waste, increase recycling, and provide opportunities for reuse of materials which would otherwise be discarded.
Programs: Resale store: sale of useable items intercepted in trash loads or of donated items. Focus is on sales to low income individuals and families. Items include household goods, appliances, furniture, building materials, fixtures, and more.
recycling drop off for north tillamook county (pop. Approx. 3,500) households and businesses drop paper, tin, plastics, cardboard, scrap metals, tires, and other materials which are processed and marketed through portland-based brokers or sold directly to mills for recycling.
north tillamook county transfer station: cart'm holds franchise with county. Households and businesses deliver solid waste. Some wastes are intercepted for recycling or reuse. The waste is hauled to the central county transfer station.