Metro’s traveling toxics reduction displays, aimed at helping residents identify and choose alternatives to hazardous household chemicals, will visit at least four area venues in October. With toxics reduction specialists also on hand to answer questions and provide individual advice, both displays help neighbors discover ways to make their homes and yards safer for people, pets and the planet.
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The mobile garden, offering an up-close look at pesticide-free yard care with more than 70 different native plants, will visit the Portland Fall Home and Garden Show at the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, and appear at East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District’s Welcome the Rain! fair, Oct. 23, in southeast Portland. The free fair will offer resources and information on sustainable stormwater solutions including rain gardens, porous pavers and more.
Metro’s Healthy Homes exhibit displays real-world examples of alternative household products. In addition to visiting the Portland Fall Home and Garden Show, the exhibit will appear at the eighth annual Energy Fair, Oct. 23, at Lincoln Elementary School in Hillsboro.
To learn more about less-toxic products and practices for a safer home and garden, call Metro’s recycling hotline at 503-234-3000 for free publications, or visit www.oregonmetro.gov/saferhome.