Philomath residents now have a free place to recycle plastic bags, bottle caps, aluminum foil and other materials that don’t belong in curbside bins.
A RecycleOn Center opened last month at The Arc, 111 N. 20th St. It is one of dozens of drop-off sites opening across the state under Oregon’s Recycling Modernization Act.
The program is run by Circular Action Alliance, a nonprofit funded by the companies that sell packaging in Oregon. Under the law, those companies must help pay for improvements to the state’s recycling system rather than leaving the cost to local governments and ratepayers alone…