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Portland, OR and Trash for Peace employ unhoused residents for environmental service pilots

Portland, OR Trash for Peace Unhoused Environmental Service

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The Ground Score Leading Inclusively Together Through Environmental Recovery (GLITTER) program provides litter collection within encampments. This partnership also seeks reductions in littering and damage to public assets through an outreach pilot. Trained outreach workers speak with members of unhoused communities about waste management concerns before co-designing solutions. Starting pay for pilot workers is $20 per hour with higher pay available for outreach coordinators.

Waste Management Environmental Services Homelessness Pilot / POC

Portland, OR

Municipality in Oregon

United States

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Oregon Relay Service

Pilot programs pay people with lived experience to clean trash and educate peers about public works projects.

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Program pays people experiencing homelessness to pick up trash in Portland – KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2

Portland launches easy-entry jobs program that cleans up trash - oregonlive.com

The pilot program, which launched in mid-February, has employed nearly 30 people who are paid $20 an hour and have already collected more than 15,000 pounds of trash.

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