Mid-Valley Garbage & Recycling Association

It’s Marion County Fair Time!!!!🎡🎟️♻️

We are back!!! Swing by and check out our booth in Columbia Hall all fair long. There is an opportunity to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card as well as a fun interactive recycling game with prizes. Hope to see y’all there!

July 11th-14th
Thursday: Noon-10pm
Friday: 10am-11pm
Saturday: 10am-11pm
Sunday: 10am-6pm

YAY, you made it!!! 🥳

Day 8 of our Contamination Campaign is ✨Textiles✨

The textile industry is one of the largest polluters. Many of the produced garments are low quality, and don’t last as long as they used to. In fact, the life of consumer products, like clothing, shortened by 50 percent from 1992 to 2002. Check out ‘Every Thread Counts Campaign’ by DEQ at https://www.oregon.gov/deq/mm/wpcampaigns/pages/make-every-thread-count.aspx

One way to reduce textile impact on the waste stream is to donate or reuse! Find local donation or consignment shops near you using the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App!

Comments, tag or share your favorite local consignment or thrift store!

SWIPE to see step by step instructions on how to enter the $100 EarthWISE businesses gift card GIVEAWAY! For any questions involving the GIVEAWAY Direct Message (DM) m.v.g.r.a 😀

Day 7 of our Contamination Campaign is ✨Egg Cartons✨

There are so many alternatives besides the trash for your egg cartons! Egg cartons make great upcycling crafts, nature collection vessels, chicken farmer egg collection containers, and so much more!

Swipe to see how you can use the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App to find out what else you can do with your egg cartons!

Tomorrow is the BIG DAY! It is day 8, the day you can enter for a chance to win a $100 in gift cards to local EarthWISE businesses. Tag a friend who you also think would love this GIVEAWAY!

Share in the comments your favorite ways to reuse egg cartons!

Day 6 of our Contamination Campaign is ✨Pizza Boxes✨

If talking about pizza makes you hungry. You surely want to stay tuned for our delicious GIVEAWAY! Coffee and PIE from

Swipe to see how you can use the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App to find out what else you can do with your pizza boxes!

What is your favorite local pizza joint?

✨Mercury✨

We feel it is important to include Mercury as an additional contaminant for the campaign on day 5. We are taking this opportunity to educate the people of Marion County on the seriousness of properly disposing items containing mercury!

As of now, the Curbside Collection App does not feature Mercury... But we know items such as fluorescent light bulbs contain Mercury. Swipe to discover how to properly dispose of your Mercury containing fluorescent light bulbs!

The Household Hazardous Waste Facility (HHW) is the answer to all, or most of, your Mercury disposal needs! Check out this link to learn more...
https://www.co.marion.or.us/PW/ES/disposal/pages/hhwd.aspx

Day 5 of our Contamination campaign is ✨Waxy Boxes✨

We are a little over half way through the contamination campaign! Be sure to stay tuned for day 8 to enter the GIVEAWAY!

Swipe to see how you can use the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App to find out your waxy boxes belong in the TRASH!

Tag your partner if they are the contaminant culprit of placing frozen food boxes in the wrong bin at your house!

Day 4 of our Contamination Campaign is ✨Styrofoam✨

Swipe to see how you can use the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App to find out what you can do with styrofoam/where you can take styrofoam!

The GIVEAWAY features a $50 Capitol Coffee Gift card and a $50 Willamette Valley Pie Company Gift card! Check out all the amazing EarthWISE certified businesses here: https://www.co.marion.or.us/PW/ES/disposal/programs/earthwise/Pages/businessprofiles.aspx

Comment below your favorite EarthWISE business!

Day 3 of our Contamination Campaign is, ✨Plastic Bags & Wrap✨

Swipe to see how you can use the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App to find out what else you can do with your plastic bags and wrap!

Keep up with the contamination campaign for a chance to enter to win a $100 in gift cards to a few of your local Marion County EarthWISE businesses! Tune in tomorrow to discover which EarthWISE businesses are featured in the GIVEAWAY!

Let us know your favorite ways to reuse plastic bags in the comments!

Did you guess the day 2 contaminant correctly?

Day 2 of our Contamination Campaign is ✨Batteries✨

Not all batteries are created equal! Swipe to see how the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App can help you figure out where and how to properly dispose of your household, rechargeable and car batteries!

Exciting GIVEAWAY coming! Keep up with the contamination campaign for a chance to enter to win a $100 in gift cards to a few of your local Marion County EarthWISE businesses!

Tag and share with a friend who would enjoy this campaign!

NEW CAMPAIGN ALERT‼️

This campaign features the most common contamination in our local waste stream! Contamination is defined as articles of garbage incorrectly placed in curbside commingled recycling bin.

This campaign has 3 goals...
1. Connect you to the amazing Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App.
2. Bring light to items that do not belong in your curbside commingled recycling bin (your blue bin).
3. Engage the people of Marion County by ending this campaign with a $100 EarthWISE business GIVEAWAY!!!

We are kicking off our first day with ✨Used Motor Oil✨ as the contaminant!

Swipe to see how you can use the Mid-Valley Curbside Collection App to find out what else you can do with your used motor oil!

Comment below what you think our day 2 contaminant will be?
Tag a friend who also loves to "Recycle Right!"