The Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience is a non-regulatory, summer program designed to link top-level engineering, chemistry, sustainability and environmental sciences students with business and industry. Collaborations focus on projects to…
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Materials Attributes Research
Compare how well do business decisions based on attributes such as using recycled content or renewable materials and recyclability or compostability align with environmental impact reduction based on life cycle…
Materials Management Grants
DEQ began offering grants to local governments in 1992. Between 1992 and 2000 grants primarily funded local solid waste plans, local recycling and composting projects, and tire cleanups. Only local…
Life Cycle Assessment – Rapid Response Services
The 2050 Vision for Materials Management in Oregon is document that guides a sustainable materials management program, focused on understanding and reducing the life cycle environmental impacts of materials, in…
Concrete Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Program
Oregon DEQ is partnering with the Oregon Concrete and Aggregates Producer Association (OCAPA) to help concrete businesses measure and disclose the environmental impacts of their concrete mixes using Environmental Product…
Reuse, Repair, and Product Lifespan Extension
In December 2016, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) published a Strategic Plan for Reuse, Repair and Extending the Lifespan of Products in Oregon. This report marked the culmination…
Food Product Environmental Footprints
The objective of this study was to review and summarize existing literature regarding the environmental impacts of a variety of foods. The literature is focused on environmental life cycle analyses…
Multi-Tenant Recycling Opportunity Project
In response to changes in Oregon’s recycling laws, the opportunity to recycle is being extended to all residential and commercial tenants of multi-tenant properties. The change will require cities and…
Impacts of Materials Flows in Oregon (IMFO)
IMFO is an environmental impacts calculator for planners, analysts, and workers in the fields of solid waste, diversion, recycling, and sustainable materials management. Similar to the Waste Reduction Model (WARM),…
Build Small Coalition
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) commissioned a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to prioritize over 25 different residential design and building practices that either reduce or prevent waste. Of…
