Temporary Operational Changes for our Hermiston Redemption Center, beginning Nov. 3:

Due to construction, hours will be limited to 9am – 4:30pm, six days per week (closed on Fridays).

Self-serve machines will be unavailable. Containers can be hand-counted at the Customer Service counter. The bag drop door will be closed but Green & Blue Bags will be accepted inside by staff.

On Thursday, Nov. 6, there will be periodic closures due to electric work.

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Contributions to Wildfire Prevention and Preparedness

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Background on Wildfire Funding Package

HB 3940A is a proposed legislative wildfire funding package that includes several different mechanisms which could be used to help cover the ballooning costs of wildfire prevention and preparedness in Oregon. One of the ideas in this legislation is a $.05 sales tax on beverage containers subject to Oregon’s Bottle Bill. Although this consumer sales tax is the current Bottle Bill-related proposal in the bill, policymakers and the Fire 35 group have signaled that they are more seriously considering an industry facing tax on the present redemption value of containers (whether redeemed or unredeemed).

This kind of policy proposal has the potential to impact all of our cooperative patrons because it would mean that we would need to significantly increase patron fees to cover this new cost or it would mean a significant reduction in services available to Oregonians as a part of our Bottle Bill system, which would have devastating consequences for the effectiveness of Oregon’s word-class deposit return model.

What are we requesting from our cooperative patrons?

We know our cooperative patrons are incredibly generous as individual businesses and care deeply about issues that impact our state. We would like to be able to tell the story of how beverage distributors show up for Oregon wildfire mitigation and management efforts, independent of the cooperative’s support for wildfire first responders and victims. This information would be shared in aggregate (no individual businesses will be named, unless you would like us to do so) with policy makers and perhaps in media coverage.

Share your business’s story by completing the short survey below by 10pm on Tuesday, May 20.

Please note: If your organization has not contributed to wildfire mitigation and management efforts in Oregon in the past 5 years, you do not need to complete this survey.

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