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Ground Score Provides Income For Homeless People Who Pick Up Trash

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Synopsis

Homeless people often pick up cans and bottles to make some money off of the deposits they get for returning them to a grocery store. Now, a new program called Ground Score is paying them to do this work cleaning up after outdoor events and keeping trash off the beaches along the Willamette River in Portland. We hear from Taylor Cass Talbott, development coordinator for Ground Score and Christine Alix, who gets paid by the program to pick up and sort trash.