We are a group of volunteers in Lane County, working to improve this planet – one decision at a time.
OUR MISSION
EcoGeneration’s primary mission is to safeguard and improve the ecosystems that humans coexist with. We focus on protecting biodiversity in and around the Pacific Northwest. Our intentions are to decrease organic and inorganic waste, increase awareness of the impact of waste, increase an individual’s understanding of their carbon footprint; based on their consumer habits, with the intention of assisting them to decrease the impact that they have on planet earth. EcoGeneration also desires to establish, maintain, and enhance ecological systems in the face of climate change.
WHAT WE DO
Our Recycling Take-Back Program is unique to the Lane County Area. In addition to working with Lane County as Community Collectors (Clean, Label-Free plastics resin coded 2, 4, or 5), we also collect and recycle within several other streams of waste.
We take pride in knowing that we are actively working to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills while preserving our resources for future generations. Currently, we have a huge emphasis on recycling plastics within any stream that we can find. When we accept recycling from the community we are taking responsibility for ensuring that it gets recycled, while also working to assure the highest quality product for our recyclers. At this time, our plastics go to Denton Plastic (through Lane County), TerraCycle, Preserve Gimme 5, and several others that wish to remain anonymous at this time.
You can make a difference.
You can choose the less convenient option.
You can clean up your mess.
You can volunteer your time and energy.
You can support those who are creating change.
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We are collaborating with Eco Generation in various ways. We have alot to learn from the amazing commuinty run recycling collection point project they have established.
We are looking for various ways to collaborate between the organizations we each know.
Our first goal will be to reuse 50Kg plastic bags by sending them to the AENP project in Tanzania. They use these bags for a community collection program they operate.
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Dr. Kebebe Bekele Gonfa
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Plastic wastes are dangerous to Environment, animals and Human beings. In Ethiopia most plastics are used for single use only and discarded to open fields after then, causing major damage. In most part of ethiopia there is no recycling facility.
Plastic waste collection, packing and transporting 600km to factory for recycling in Ethiopia.
330,069 lbs collected
1625 Volunteers
10 Crew members
2018
1625 registered volunteers.
Many schools and students volunteering.
Various local environmental and clean-up groups
I am using Horse for plastic collection in the town and medium trucker for transporting packed plastic to factory and for communication social media
If we get support we want to develop plastic recycling facility and total waste recycling facility in Ethiopia, community awareness on problem of different wastes
Reaching more volunteers and finding sponsors in the next couple of years so that we can have the fundings to do this.
Funding, outreach, networking.
Lane County, Oregon, USA
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