Oregon daily emerald., June 18, 1973, community section, Page 7, Image 8

BRING has
pickup points all over Eugene.
Photo by Jean O'Leary
BRING
is
Eugene’s
recycling
agency
Things get a bit hot in the summer, and your house just might
begin to seem a little small for both you and your garbage to share. So
rather than just lying back like a slob and letting it accumulate until
the garbagemen come, you might consider taking advantage ot some
of the services offered by BRING (Begin Recycling In Natural
Groups), the major non-profit recycling organization in the Eugene
Springfield area.
The BRING warehouse, which is open from noon to 6 p.m., seven
days a week, will accept a full line of recyclable items. The warehouse
is located on Franklin Blvd. and Seavey Loop Road near Lane Com
munity College. The phone number is 746-3023, if you have trouble
finding it.
Also available during this summer:
— One weekend every month there are pickups at various schools
in the area. The Emerald and other local papers will have times and
places listed.
— Every Saturday (through June) from noon to 3 p.m., the
BRING-MOBILE is stationed at the entrance of the Day Island
Landfill. Starting in early July, this service will be expanded to both
Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. for twelve weekends.
— Pickup service is also offered for properly prepared
recyclables. The cost is one dollar. Call BRING for service.
BRING accepts returnable bottles and cans (unflattened) as a
donation. All glass containers are also accepted if sorted by color and
metal rings and tops are removed (these can be recycled with cans, as
below.) Paper labels may be left on.
Steel (tin plate) cans should have the label and both ends
removed, and should be flattened for shipping.
Aluminum is accepted if clean and wadded or flattened. Card
board, corrugated or not, and brown paper bags should be flattened
and collected in boxts.
High grade paper such as typing, notebook, mimeograph, and
binder paper should be sorted into white and colored. BRING does not
take newspapers, but there are many Eugene Mission deposit-boxes in
the area which do.
BRING intends to recycle everything that can be possibly
recycled at the Renaissance Faire and several concerts during the
summer months. .
Once upon a time a hitchiker up from California was picked up on
1-5. And as his benefactor pulled in for gas, the hiker stepped out to get
a can of pop.
Back on the freeway, he looked at the can incredulously, then,
with a complaint in his voice against this violation of nature, he said,
“Where the hell’s the pop top?”
There ain’t none, baby. Not in this state.
Not since October 1, 1972, when Oregon’s infamous “Bottle Bill”
went into effect.
Not only are there no pop-tops — but there’s no canned beer.
And even the pop cans carry a nickel deposit.
This can opener revival is the upshot of a bill passed in the 1971
session of the Oregon Legislature with a single purpose in mind —
preserving the environment.
Those mountaints of litter decorating each countryside road
prompted the drafting of revolutionary legislation that puts a deposit
on every beer bottle and soda-pop can in the state.
There s a nickel deposit on pop cans, two cents on beer stubbies,
three cents on a quart, twenty cents on the big Coke bottles, and an
even dime on a regular pop bottle.
The bill itself is the first of its kind ever put into effect in the
lation. It specifies that “every beverage container sold or offered for
sale in this state shall have a refund value of not less than five cents.”
An exception is made in the case of beer bottles like the stubby
which can be used by several bottlers. They have a refund value of two
;ents.
So as a result of the bill, those early morning caravans to the
garbage can with the refuse of the night before are being replaced with
a caravan to the grocery store for the refund.
Motorists find themselves saving a bottle or can instead of
casually flipping it out the window — at two or five or twenty cents a
shot, littering the landscape can be expensive.
And it’s that expensive ecological-destruction that littering causes
that is the target of the bill — and from the latest reports in, it’s
working. The volume of container litter along Oregon’s roadsides has
significantly diminished since the bill went into effect.
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