An expanded education and promotion program to satisfy the requirements of ORS § 459A.007 must carry out the policy set forth in ORS § 459.015, inform generators of solid waste of the manner and benefits of reducing, reusing, recycling and composting material, promote use of recycling services and reduce contamination in collected recyclables. The city, county or metropolitan service district responsible for providing an opportunity to recycle shall provide the education and promotion program in one of the following ways:

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(1)(a) Preparing and implementing an education and promotion plan that includes actions to effectively reach solid waste generators and all new and existing collection service customers as necessary to fulfill the intent of this section.

(b) The plan described in paragraph (a) of this subsection must be submitted to the Department of Environmental Quality during the first year that the plan is in effect. Thereafter, the wasteshed shall submit a summary of activities in the plan to the department at the same time the county submits the periodic report required under ORS § 459A.050 (1)(a). The summary must cover at least the time period until the next periodic report is due to the department.

(2) Implementing all of the following:

(a)(A) Provision of recycling notification and education packets to all new residential, commercial and institutional collection service customers that include, at a minimum, information about the materials collected, the schedule for collection, the way to prepare materials for collection, why separating material for recycling is necessary and how to reduce contamination of the materials set out for collection.

(B) In addition to the requirements of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the educational and promotional materials provided to commercial collection customers must:

(i) Be targeted to meet the needs of various types of businesses;

(ii) Include information on the economic and other benefits of recycling, common barriers to recycling and solutions to the barriers, additional resources for commercial generators of solid waste and other information designed to assist and encourage recycling efforts and reduce contamination; and

(iii) Encourage each commercial collection customer to have a goal to achieve 55 percent recovery from the customer’s solid waste stream by 2025.

(b) Provision of recycling information to collection service customers, in a variety of formats and materials at least four times per calendar year, that includes, at a minimum, the materials collected and the schedule for collection.

(c) Provision, at least annually, of the information described in paragraph (a) of this subsection to all residential, commercial and institutional collection service customers.

(d) Targeting of community and media events to promote recycling and reduce contamination in collected recyclables. [2015 c.534 § 6; 2021 c.681 § 52]

See note under 459A.007.