Oregon City Redemption Center: closed Nov 18 – 22 (Mon – Fri) for handcounts and self-serve returns.

From 8am to 6pm on these days, BottleDrop staff will be on-site/
in the parking lot to facilitate customers dropping Green and Blue Bags.

Containers for Change

Making it easy to give back to the community.

Nominate Your Nonprofit
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Having a Community Impact

Customers who wish to participate in OBRC’s Containers for Change Program may simply leave their bag tag sticker off their Green Bag. OBRC uses 100% of the funds from containers in those bags to support nonprofits and advocacy organizations, as well as foundations, through the Containers for Change program. A portion of these funds go to support the Oregon Community Foundation’s BottleDrop Fund, a portion of the funds are used to support one or multiple featured nonprofit(s) and/or foundation(s) through a revolving fundraiser-of-the-month partnership, and a portion of the funds may be used by OBRC for things like matching BottleDrop Give contributions to nonprofits, supporting nonprofit and advocacy organizations working in the spirit of the Bottle Bill through things like grants and sponsorships, and supporting resilient communities through the OBRC Emergency Fund. This year, the OBRC Emergency Fund has helped support wildfire relief throughout Oregon. Updates about these partnerships will be included in BottleDrop’s monthly email newsletter.

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Bag Tags

OBRC and BottleDrop created the Containers for Change program to make it easy to give back to the community by simply leaving off your bag tag. Want credit for your bag? Make sure you place a bag tag on it. BottleDrop relies on bag tag stickers that are uniquely associated with customer accounts to properly credit Green Bags. Customers who inadvertently drop a bag without a sticker and do not wish for the funds from their containers to be directed to the Containers for Change program can contact customer service at 503-542-5252 to inquire about credit for their bag.

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Featured Partners

This month, BottleDrop’s Containers for Change program will support the following nonprofit organizations:

  • Carry It Forward, cultivating systematic efforts to reduce the harms of homelessness and supporting the necessary work that ends it
  • Central City Concern, helping people find home, regain health, and move toward long-term stability and success
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – Clackamas, providing free mental health education, support, and advocacy delivered by people with lived experience to improve quality of life for everyone in the community
  • Street Roots, creating income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty by producing a newspaper and other media that are catalysts for individual and social change
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Consideration to be Featured

We love supporting nonprofits working in the spirit of Oregon’s Bottle Bill through environmental impact, litter remediation, helping unhoused and/or vulnerable Oregonians, protecting Oregon’s special places, and building community.

Interested in having your nonprofit considered for a monthly Containers for Change feature? Complete our nomination form!