Wednesday, March 21, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Correspondent
...it will be necessary
for residents to be
informed about what
they can and can’t
recycle...
Bailey wants to provide
the public with more educa-
tion to increase their under-
standing of what can and
can’t be recycled. When non-
recyclable materials go into
the co-mingled cart, the entire
cart is contaminated. What
goes in has to be marketable.
All of these factors put
upward pressure on garbage
rates according to Bailey.
This is happening not just
here in Sisters but through-
out Oregon. Medford is land-
filling recyclables. Marion
County is educating the pub-
lic and making some program
changes. Portland is increas-
ing their education and their
garbage rates. In Prineville,
only certain items my be dis-
posed of.
HCD would like to be
consistent countywide in
their education regarding
recycling. They envision
having to do a “reset” on
recycling, which means they
will have to do enforcement
they’ve never done before.
Cameras on the hoppers on
the trucks allow the driver
to see what is coming out of
the cart. They may also have
to do spot checks of carts on
the ground before emptying
them. There may also be sur-
charges for recycling certain
materials.
Whatever is required, it
will be necessary for resi-
dents to be informed about
what they can and can’t recy-
cle — and then be conscien-
tious when placing materials
in their carts.
By Douglas Beall
Correspondent
While gleaning insects
within conifers in the forest
or around our houses, the
mountain chickadee (Poecile
gambeli) will sing its merry,
slightly hoarse fee-bee or
chick-adee-adee-adee song.
They prefer high-altitude
forests and are found in the
mountains from the Yukon
down to Baja Mexico and
southern New Mexico.
Mountain chickadees
are cavity nesters who mold
their nests with fur and lay
5-9 white eggs which incu-
bate for 12-15 days. During
this time when the female
leaves the nest she will cover
the eggs with a fur plug
which will maintain the eggs
temperature. The chicks are
fed by both parents a diet
of insects including beetles,
aphids, caterpillars and wasp
larvae. In 17-23 days the
young leave the nest and will
flock with the adults until the
fall season. The oldest MC
recorded was 10 years old.
A common bird at a black
sunflower feeder, the moun-
tain chickadee will use nest
boxes around our houses and
produce several broods dur-
ing their season.
A group of chickadees are
known as a “dissimulation”
or a “banditry.”
To view more images
of the mountain chickadee,
visit and enjoy the small
things: www.abirdsings
becauseithasasong.com/
recent-journeys/.
PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL
382 E. Hood Ave.
541-549-6406
Changes in environmental
quality regulations in China
are having a direct impact on
recycling here in Sisters.
Until recently, China has
been the largest importer
of recyclables from the
United States. In an attempt
to improve their own envi-
ronmental quality, China
has changed the standards
for waste materials com-
ing into their country. For
example, they have banned
mixed waste-paper. These
policy changes are directly
impacting the handling of
recyclables by High Country
Disposal and all other waste
companies.
The co-mingled recy-
clables that go into the blue
curbside carts in Sisters are
compressed into large bales
by HCD and are trucked to
the Willamette Valley to be
sorted and sent on to proces-
sors and other markets.
Brad Bailey, president of
HCD, told City Council that
Sisters has an excellent recy-
cling history. However, with
the increased cost of sorting
and a decreased demand for
the recyclables, HCD neces-
sarily has to look at making
some changes.
Program changes would
mean certain materials would
no longer be collected, which
means more waste would
be going into the landfill.
Currently, the Knott landfill
has only 11 years of storage
space left, and that would be
shortened with more garbage
going into it.
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By Sue Stafford
Sisters Country birds
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Changes to recycling program
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The Design Center will move to a new location in
the Sisters Industrial Park, which will be full of sam-
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and new ones alike can take full advantage of Village
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