BRING will
give a home
to your old
wine bottles
One empty Gatorade jar makes a nice flower
vase, but what do you do with the other 20? You
made candle holders with the first few exotic-looking
wine bottles, but now there’s a shelf full of them.
What can you do with them? Give them to BRING,
the local recycling agency.
BRING is an acronym for Begin Recycling In
Neighborhood Groups and it stands for a non-profit
membership organization that collects glass con
tainers, tin cans, paper, cardboard and aluminum
foil, and ships them to recycling plants.
For the campus area, BRING will have a mobile
unit stationed at 13th and University Street every
Monday starting today, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., ac
cording to BRING manager Ernie Fraim.
Fraim asks that you remove labels from cans
and take all tops and rings off bottles. v
Has dumping your old motor oil been a problem?
Now you can give that to BRING, too. Starting this
summer, Fraim will have a 55-gallon drum for oil at
the BRING warehouse on Franklin Boulevard at
Seavey Loop Road. The facility is open on Saturday
and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., but there are places to
leave recyclables there during the week, too. Old oil
can be left at the campus pickup point, too, but it must
be in a tightly sealed container.
The idea for a local recycling agency was con
ceived on Earth Day, 1970. The BRING organization
was founded in 1971. It elects nine Board members
from a membership of persons who have either paid
$5 or donated labor. Fraim and a few paid assistants
take care of the day-to-day operation while the board
sets policy.
BRING survives on what it gets for recycling
sales plus a $1,000 a month subsidy from the county.
The contract with Lane County expires June 30 and a
new contract is being negotiated, says Fraim.
by Phi! Waldstein
Have no fear
— Switchboard
is here!
Did your cat just drown in that
vat of yogurt you’re making? Or
did your new parrot just fly straight
into the neighbor’s bee hive?
Whatever your problem, help
could be just as close as your
telephone, which hopefully still
works after Cousin Jesse poured
glue all over your receiver last
night while watching your TV ex
plode because he was having a
water-gun fight with the cops and
robbers of “Dragnet.”
Call Switchboard, the multi
service organization which re
places the panic button, at
686-8453. It’s Eugene's hot line,
funded by private donations and
staffed with volunteers who man
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the lines every day from 10 a m. to
midnight.
Switchboard offers a host of
services, perhaps the most popu
lar being Rides and Riders. The
procedure for this is very simple: a
traveller with a car full of empty
space just waiting for passengers
calls Switchboard and posts his
destination in the Switchboard file
of rides. Then, another traveller,
who is going in the same direction,
has no car and would like to fill up
that empty space in traveller
number one’s car, calls Switch
board also, and the two would-be
lonesome travellers hook up to
gether, usually splitting the gas
bill.
Other Switchboard services are
Lost and Found Pets (operating
similarly to Rides and Riders), a
housing list, a health referral
agency, a general referral agency,
phone counselling and just good
old-fashioned listening ears
If you would like to be one of
those ears, you are welcome to
help out, since Switchboard
handles over 42,000 calls annu
ally.
by Martha Bliss
fresh
air
Earth
shoe.
Monday, June 21, 1976