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BottleDrop donation will help support Greater Oakridge Area Trail Stewards (GOATS)

by Doug Bates | May 19, 2021 | Communities, Featured Sidebar, Oakridge/Westfir, Outdoors

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The Greater Oakridge Area Trail Stewards at work on a trail in the Willamette National Forest.

The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC), parent organization to BottleDrop, announced a $2,500 donation to the Greater Oakridge Area Trail Stewards (GOATS).

The donation, generated through BottleDrop’s Containers for Change program, will be used by the nonprofit to support volunteers maintaining trails and improving forest experiences throughout the Oakridge area.

“Local residents teaming together to love and care for outdoor amenities is exactly what Oregon’s landmark Bottle Bill is all about. We’re thrilled to help support the Trail Stewards’ amazing volunteer work,” said Eric Chambers, OBRC’s director of external relations. “Our customers are amazingly generous, and we wanted to create a straightforward way for them to support organizations like this with funds from their bottles and cans.”

BottleDrop’s Containers for Change program provides Oregonians with an easy way to donate funds from their bottles and cans to excellent nonprofits operating in communities around the state. BottleDrop customers can participate by simply leaving their bag tag stickers off of their Green Bags, and dropping them off at any BottleDrop facility, like the Redemption Center in Springfield.

“The ‘S’ in GOATS stands for ‘Stewardship.’ We have partnered with many events to deal with recycling and returnables which led us to working with OBRC,” said Benjamin Beamer, chairman of GOATS. “This donation will help GOATS continue our mission to break down the barriers in getting volunteers on trails in the Oakridge area by providing tools, materials and leadership.”

BottleDrop customers can visit bottledropcenters.com/containersforchange/ to learn more about this program, and how they can use their beverage containers to support excellent nonprofits, foundations,
and advocacy organizations in Oregon.

About OBRC

The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC) is the industry steward of Oregon’s nationally recognized beverage container redemption system. Headquartered in Clackamas, OR, OBRC is a statewide not-for-profit cooperative, formed by the beverage industry. OBRC helps keep Oregon beautiful by providing outstanding services to partners, distributors, retailers and the public for the recovery, reuse and recycling of beverage containers.

Through OBRC’s BottleDrop Redemption Centers and container pickup service for more than 2,500 retail partners, the co-op recycles around 2 billion beverage containers annually, protecting the Oregon we love, supporting the causes we cherish and inspiring innovation beyond our borders – all without a single penny of state funding.

About Greater Oakridge Area Trail Stewards

Greater Oakridge Area Trail Stewards (GOATS), a community-based service organization, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to protect, create and enhance quality non-motorized trail experiences that expand community access to forest experiences and trail stewardship.

BottleDrop account holders can donate funds from their online balance to Greater Oakridge Area Trail
Stewards (GOATS) here.

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Written by Doug Bates

May 19, 2021

Alpine Stream Construction Highway 58 Oakridge Oregon

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