Welcome to our Blog about recycling and waste-management for Portland, Oregon area residential services and commercial services. important news and updates regarding services to your area will be posted here.
Beginning May 2011, we fueled our trucks with 99% Biodiesel made from used cooking oils. This is a very clean burning fuel. And it’s made from a recycled feedstock. We ran B99 for 6 months, but found it does not work well with our newest trucks because of problems with the DPF Regeneration procedure. Even though B99 worked great for all our older trucks, we had to change our bulk delivery fueling program back to B20.
Cloudburst offers waste cooking oil collection services for local restaurants. We love the closed circle concept: We run our recycling trucks on fuel made from a resource we collect for recycling!
NOTE: We also provide greasetrap service and rebates for oil collected with a service package.
Give us a call at 503-281-8075 and help us meet our goal of collecting all the oil we need to fuel our trucks!
We are pleased to offer you the option of paying your Cloudburst bill through automatic withdrawal from your checking account. Our Auto Pay Plan is free, easy, convenient and the environmentally friendly way to pay your bill.
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES?
• Cost – No more postage to pay or envelopes to buy.
• Convenience – Your bill is paid automatically
• Freedom – Your bill is paid on-time, every time, never late, never a late fee.
• Resource Conservation – no more checks, envelopes, or paper bills. Reduces paper– and reduces fuel consumption and carbon emissions for postal handling and transport.
• Security – No need to worry about lost checks
HOW DOES IT WORK?
On a specific date each month for commercial customers (every other month for residential customers) the amount due on your account will be automatically deducted from your checking account.
CAN I CANCEL AUTO PAY LATER?
Yes. Simply notify us in writing thirty (30) days before your account is scheduled for payment. Once Auto Pay is canceled, we will resume regular mailed billing.
WILL I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE A BILL IN THE MAIL?
NO statement will be sent, UNLESS your account has been charged for extra service. IF your account has been charged for extra service, we will send you a bill. The bill will indicate “AUTO DEDUCT”. This will allow you about 10 days to call us so we can resolve any questions you may have. Otherwise, the amount due will automatically be withdrawn from your account.
HOW DO I ENROLL?
Your authorization is all we need. Just fill out the Authorization Form on our website. Fill it out, save it to your computer, then print it, and mail it to us along with a voided check. We cannot accept deposit slips to set up Auto Pay.
CONTINUE TO PAY YOUR BILL BY MAIL UNTIL YOUR STATEMENT SAYS “AUTO PAY”.
Your Auto Pay plan will begin with that bill.
Cloudburst’s new 23.9 kW Solar Photovoltaic system went live June 11, 2010. We expect to generate nearly two thirds of the electrical power consumed at our facility each year. Generating Clean Power we will reduce our carbon output. Any power we generate in excess of what we use on site will flow back onto the electrical grid for public use.
This is a major step in our Energy Self-Sufficiency Plan. We also collect enough waste vegetable oil from our restaurant customers to produce biodiesel equivalent to two thirds of the fuel consumed by our collection fleet.
We are proud of these accomplishments.
Christmas trees can be collected on yard debris day. (It is against City regulations for us to collect them as garbage.)
Please remove all ornaments, tinsel, stands, etc prior to collection. There is an extra charge of $4 for trees up to 8 ft tall, or $6 for taller trees. Trees may be cut up and placed in your yard debris rollcart for no additional charge, provided you can close the lid. Do NOT jam the tree into the cart: it must fall loosely from the cart when we dump it into the truck!
THANKS, and HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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April 26, 2010
Cloudburst Recycling was founded in 1975 by David and Michela McMahon. We celebrated the 35th anniversary of our first collection route on April 15th.
Rex Burkholder, a candidate for Chairman of the Metro Regional Government, stated in the Voter’s Pamphet that he “co-founded Cloudburst Recycling”. This unfortunate statement is completely inaccurate. Rex has apologized for his error.
Rex did work at Cloudburst, but not until 1980-81 (for roughly 18 months), more than 5 years after Cloudburst’s founding.
More discussion of this matter can be found at Willamette Week’s blog.