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Recycling Operations Specialist
Circular Action Alliance (CAA)
Position Type: Full time
Location: Remote, OR
Salary: $65,000-$85,000 
Deadline: Open until filled
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The Recycling Operations Specialist will help oversee the Circular Action Alliance's (CAA) program for transportation and recycling infrastructure. This role assists the Recycling Operations Manager on the oversight of funding and compliance obligations related to the collection and management of recycling across the state. The Specialist will support program delivery and leading relationships and collaboration with recycling collection haulers accomplish CAA’s and State of Oregon’s Extended Producer Responsibility operational outcomes. The Recycling Operations Specialist will also work closely with CAA teammates and external interest holders to educate and engage haulers, expand access to recycling collection services, and invest in Oregon’s recycling infrastructure. This role will ensure workflows are managed to meet critical implementation, operational, and reporting deadlines.

Astro-Nought
Position Type: Part time, 10-15 hours/week
Salary: $35-$50/hour
Deadline: September 30, 2025
How to apply: Send resume/CV to bob@astro-nought.com

Astro-Nought seeks a Spanish-speaking, RMA-savvy recycling rules expert with Master Recycler certification, sorting facility, or other experience.

Astro-Nought is an app-based digital recycling assistant, currently under development, which provides recycling instructions specific to individual products in multiple languages. Using the natural name for packaging components is essential—and tricky. English terms like envelope, packet, pouch, bag, and wrapper can blur into each other.

Products come in a vast array of packaging types, and their Spanish names must sound natural to Spanish users of Astro-Nought (aka “Astro-Nada”). The position also involves curating the Astro-Nought database so it contains products made for Spanish speakers. Knowledge of relational databases and experience with JSON or SQL is helpful but not required.

Astro-Nought rejects the dismantlement of DEI programs in the United States and aspires to a zero-waste, zero-contamination, zero-hate future.