Junk It Junk Removal, a local, family-owned company that began in 2012 and specializes in residential and commercial waste hauling.įrog & Toad Hauling celebrated its third anniversary in 2022. Ground Score is collectively organized and seeks to be radically inclusive, prioritizing work opportunities for those facing work and housing insecurity. They aim to build a more environmentally and socially aware community, while also changing society’s perceptions of what and who is considered valuable. Ground Score is an association of informal recyclers, dumpster divers and other environmental workers who create and fill low-barrier waste management jobs. Ground Score Association, a peer-led initiative of Trash for Peace. It celebrated its fourth anniversary in 2022. Trash for Peace, a 10-year-old community-based organization providing hands-on learning, low-barrier job opportunities, and education about sustainability in environments that are peer-led, welcoming, safe, and collaborative. The organizations that came together to create Treasure N Trash are: It was created through a unique partnership between local businesses and nonprofits that facilitates low-barrier job opportunities in reuse, repair, and litter collection. It’s an innovative Reuse Hub focused on environmental justice and workforce development. It’s a retail store where you can find antiques along with reclaimed furniture and other goods.īut it’s not just a store. This open-source online resource has a mission to teach everyone to fix everything.īullfrog’s Treasure N Trash has opened in Northwest Portland’s Old Town neighborhood. This year also marks the 20th anniversary for iFixit. The Today Show segments highlight core virtues of the community repair movement like thrift, the environment, community building, and skill sharing. The Today Show has featured repair twice: once with a live Repair Café and a second about the Northeast Seattle Tool Library. A similar bill was part of the 2021 session.Īt a national level, repair was recently highlighted in a New York Times Wirecutter article and the Los Angeles Times. To learn more about the bill, listen to the OPB Think Out Loud segment with Oregon Senator Janeen Sollman, D-Hillsboro, a sponsor of the bill. The bill is in the Rules Committee, awaiting amendments, and a possible vote in the Senate. In Oregon, Senate Bill 542 Right to Repair is currently part of Oregon’s Legislative Session. There are shifts in the air locally and nationally, with recent Earth Day promotion and ongoing Right to Repair legislation efforts expanding awareness and enthusiasm for repair throughout the country. The drop-in options allow interaction with experienced fixers so anyone can learn about small appliance repair.įind out more about Repair PDX and the list of local events.

Regional repair events are popping up all the time, including monthly events in Portland and weekly drop-in hours at Repair PDX headquarters at ADX. That vision extends to seeing that repair and reuse is everywhere and deeply ingrained in our culture.” It's imperative that we make things that will last, and that we take care of those things for as long as possible. It's senseless that we extract things from the ground, use them for a few minutes, and then bury them in the ground again.

Reflecting on 10 years, Lauren shared her thoughts on the future: “I'd say my vision for the future is the same as our mission: Spread repair culture. She continues to be at the helm of the repair movement, along with many volunteer fixers. Lauren Gross started Repair PDX based on her experience with Repair Cafés in the Netherlands. Repair Cafés are free events that bring volunteers who like to fix things together with people who have items that need fixing. This local, grassroots organization hosts Repair Cafés, and has led the repair movement in Portland. Repair PDX is celebrating their 10th anniversary and planning for the future.

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