Master Recycler Program
Our Region’s sustainability Volunteer Corps.
The Master Recycler Program is a community engagement volunteer corps focused on sustainable consumption, climate protection, environmental justice, saving food, toxics reduction, repair, reuse, composting, and recycling.
Each year, three 7-week trainings rotate through the three counties in the Portland metro region. Armed with outreach techniques and resources, graduates commit to 30 hours of community engagement. Master Recyclers volunteer at local events, with community partners, and through individual projects. They receive ongoing training, resources, and technical support to help them reach their goals.
The Master Recycler Program also partners with local community organizations to conduct the Community-Design program. This program provides resources, training, a workforce, and project development for community-driven initiatives. The program partners with communities of color, low income communities, people who are linguistically isolated, and multifamily communities. Specific communities come together as a group and design sustainability projects that meet their own goals and aspirations.
This program is brought to you by Metro, the City of Portland, Clackamas County, Washington County, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
Contact Us
The Master Recycler Program is administered by:
METRO regional government
600 NE Grand Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97232
(503) 545-8976
Live in another part of oregon?
There are several Master Recycler programs in Oregon:
Jackson County, (on hold) P.O. Box 3187, Central Point, OR 97502
Josephine County, (on hold) Southern Oregon Sanitation, 457 Greenwood Ave, Reedsport, OR 97467
Lane County, Kelly Bell, 541-682-2059, Lane County Waste Management, 3100 E 17th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
Linn-Benton County, Kenny Larson, 541-754-0444 x. 211, 110 NE Walnut Blvd., Corvallis, Oregon 97330
Marion County, Dakota Tangredi, 503-566-3191, Marion Co. Public Works Env. Serv. 5155 Silverton Rd, Salem, OR 97305
Tillamook County, David McCall, (on hold) 503-815-3975, Tillamook County Solid Waste 503 Marolf Loop Rd, Tillamook, OR 97141
Wasco, Sherman and Hood River Counties, (on hold) 541-506-2632, Hazardous Waste & Recycling 419 E Seventh, The Dalles, OR 97058