Early dump years In 1953, Tillamook County bought the current site of Cart’m to use as a public dump. The county operated the site as an open burning dump until 1981, then as a transfer station. Cart’m took over in 1999.
Early Cart’m years Beginning in 1990, volunteers operated a recycling shack in the parking lot opposite the Manzanita fire station. They called themselves the Community Action Recycling Team of Manzanita (Cart’m) Cart’m Recycling became a non-profit organization in 1997. Later that year Tillamook County franchised Cart’m as the operator of the Manzanita Transfer Station. In 1998, the City of Manzanita granted Cart’m a conditional use permit to operate “a recycling center and reuse resale facility in a residential zone within the Manzanita Urban Growth Boundary.”
Move to current site During the winter of 1998-99, Cart’m constructed its 50 x 100-foot pole building financed half by Tillamook County and half by grants from Meyer Memorial Trust. Additional facilities (baler) and machines (forklift, trucks) were added by various grants and donations. In subsequent years operations improved with the addition of trash sheds, trailer loading docks, a waste oil space heater, paving and a new building to store recycled commodities and donations to the store.
Trash Bash Cart’m board and staff held the first Bash and sale of recycled art in May 1999.
Master plan During 2005, the Cart’m board of directors planned for the next five years. The process began with a community meeting, continued through the year with many committees and a lead consultant, and ended with a master site plan and a revised strategic plan adopted by the board and approved by the City of Manzanita in 2007.
History
Manzanita dump in 1985
Early dump years
In 1953, Tillamook County bought the current site of Cart’m to use as a public dump. The county operated the site as an open burning dump until 1981, then as a transfer station. Cart’m took over in 1999.
Early Cart’m years
Beginning in 1990, volunteers operated a recycling shack in the parking lot opposite the Manzanita fire station. They called themselves the Community Action Recycling Team of Manzanita (Cart’m)
Cart’m Recycling became a non-profit organization in 1997. Later that year Tillamook County franchised Cart’m as the operator of the Manzanita Transfer Station. In 1998, the City of Manzanita granted Cart’m a conditional use permit to operate “a recycling center and reuse resale facility in a residential zone within the Manzanita Urban Growth Boundary.”
Move to current site
During the winter of 1998-99, Cart’m constructed its 50 x 100-foot pole building financed half by Tillamook County and half by grants from Meyer Memorial Trust. Additional facilities (baler) and machines (forklift, trucks) were added by various grants and donations. In subsequent years operations improved with the addition of trash sheds, trailer loading docks, a waste oil space heater, paving and a new building to store recycled commodities and donations to the store.
Trash Bash
Cart’m board and staff held the first Bash and sale of recycled art in May 1999.
Master plan
During 2005, the Cart’m board of directors planned for the next five years. The process began with a community meeting, continued through the year with many committees and a lead consultant, and ended with a master site plan and a revised strategic plan adopted by the board and approved by the City of Manzanita in 2007.
Cart’m in photos
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Cart’m historical aerial photos
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