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For those in the Portland area. The Moreland Farmers market is now excepting Styrofoam for recycling. The last Wednesday of each month you can bring clean white #6 block styrofoam to the market.(No food styrofoam though)

You know, that stupid stuff that your DVD player came packaged in., your coffee pot, cell phone, keyboard.... this list goes on.

Most curbside recycling services wont take styrofoam, so most of the time it just goes in the trash. Destined for landfill....just sitting there for hundreds of years...

This couple in Sellwood, owners of Wallace used books, they started this whole crusade. They were just going to take the foam that people dropped off and fill their truck with a canopy and take it to a recycyling facility. The foam about then be "shrunk" and make it into various recycled hard plastic products. Pretty cool huh!

I just dropped off some last month and it wasn't a small pile of styrofoam it was a HUGE U-Haul truck FULL of it. I guess the word got around!

Anyway. September is the last month of the Farmers market. So you have any styrofoam laying around, or know anyone else who does, send them down to SE Portland Moreland Farmers market. Located on SE Bybee and 12th ave. Last wednesday of this month.


now thats some good news

THANK GOD.

I have unfortunatly taken part in putting styrofoam in the trash, I eventually started trying to do my best to create something out of the styrofoam, so I wouldnt have to throw it away. (needless to day now i have some nifty "furniture things")

This news makes me very glad, i never understood why there wasnt a recycling process for it.. it seems like it would be one of the easiest products to reuse...