City of Roses Disposal & Recycling
P.O. BOX 301427, Portland, Oregon, United States

City of Roses Disposal & Recycling is a dedicated leader in the truest sense of the term sustainability. Over the past 20 years, we have prided ourselves on the root meaning of customer service and have been fully committed to fulfilling any and all of our customer needs. We have continued to stand by what it truly means to be sustainable.We practice social responsibility by reaching out to the local community first when we have employment opportunities, economically saving our customers time and costs which would have otherwise been exhausted. We have excelled environmentally by ensuring that discarded waste has its greatest potential of either being reduced, reused or recycled.Additionally, City of Roses Disposal & Recycling provides sustainable value to organizations by reducing, reusing or recycling more waste than our competitors. As a result, this benefit reduces our customer’s costs and maximizes profits through material rebates.

Our Mission

City of Roses Disposal & Recycling (CORDR) is an integrated waste & recycling organization that emphasizes its main focal point on, assisting businesses with reducing their carbon footprint.
Through this focus, we are committed to providing reliable waste & recycling services, complimented by friendly customer service and sustainable best management practices.City of Roses Disposal & Recycling is the first ever African-American owned integrated solid waste and recycling company in the state of Oregon.After many years of hard work, persistence and sacrifice, City of Roses has grown into one of the most customer service friendly and dependable recycling companies in the Portland Metro area. Most if not all of the groundwork has been laid for many generations to come.
Moving forward, City of Roses will not solely be recognized as a leader in the world of customer service but a leader in the truest sense of the term sustainability. In doing so, City of Roses will continue its focus on the triple bottom line in order to bring shared value to the local economy, environment and society.

COMMERCIAL SERVICES

CONSTRUCTION & DEMOLITION WASTE HAULING
City of Roses has widespread experience of waste hauling and recycling on construction projects. City of Roses has a variety dropboxes varying in sizes such as 10, 20, 30 & 40 cubic yards. Through strategic and timely coordination planning conducted by the fleet manger, City of Roses is capable of assuring all dropbox services are handled appropriately on all projects varying in sizes anywhere between 500 Sq. Ft. – 1,000,000 Sq. Ft.

Recyclable Materials Construction Materials

• C&D Mixed Solid Waste
• Wood
• Metals
• Cardboard
• Concrete/Brick
• Gypsum (Drywall)
• Yard Debris
• Clean Dirt
• Organics
• Electronics

COMMERICAL/INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS
City of Roses’ waste hauling services do not end at construction. City of Roses has also established ongoing relationships with various commercial and industrial businesses that have disposal and recycling needs for their manufacturing processes. City of Roses has the ability to provide our various sizes of dropbox containers and rollcarts to accommodate what each business finds essential to satisfy their operations.

RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

REMODEL/CLEANOUT
For projects that are not as large as those on the commercial end, City of Roses is always more than willing to provide services for the average local homeowner. City of Roses has always been dedicated to providing the highest of quality service to all of our residential customers, whatever the size of the project the City of Roses team is willing to walk you through the task at hand to assure that all of the customers’ requests are covered, discarded items are handled sustainably and that the service is accomplished in the most cost effective manner.
NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUPS
Every year various neighborhood associations gather their local neighbors and neighborhoods together to coordinate neighborhood cleanups. When these cleanups are organized, many times City of Roses is called upon to provide dropboxes for the cleanup and disposal of discarded items, which are collected during their efforts. If you are part of a neighborhood association or simply a homeowner organizing neighborhood cleanups feel free to contact us so we can accommodate all of your needs. **Metro also provides waste vouchers when cleanups take place, be sure to contact Metro regarding this to assure disposal fees are waived.

CORE RECYCLING

CORE Recycling (CORE) is a division of the City of Roses Disposal & Recycling operation. CORE is a licensed Material Recovery Facility (MRF) that accepts dry waste and construction & demolition (C&D) debris. Aside from striving to be a leading recycling facility in the Portland Metro area when it comes to recovery rates, CORE has also obtained its very own niche in the recycling marketplace. CORE Recycling has fashioned a reliable and sustainable waste recovery/recycling process, which enables the organization to serve and fulfill the requirements of the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Efficient Design (LEED) Materials and Resources, Construction Waste Management Credit.
In a city where Sustainability has become a part of the overall culture, CORE Recycling intends to add needed value to the City of Portland’s morale of sustaining itself for future generations to come. As Portland strives to become the “Most Sustainable City in the World” CORE as well will be positioning itself to become the most sustainable MRF in the world. CORE’s aspirations are destined to hire employees from a variety of diverse backgrounds, provide livable wage jobs and commit itself to assisting the Metro region of achieving its waste recovery goal of 64% and beyond.