New recycling center opening today
By HEIDI SWILLINGER
Of the EiMfitd
People who hate to throw
away a broken toaster or a shirt
that no longer fits can take heart
— the Lane Economic Develop
ment Council is opening The
Company Store, a new center
for the collection and resale of
recyclables
The center, which opens
today, will accept bundled
newspapers, flattened card
board and tin cans, bottles, me
tals, motor oil, and “anything
which could be sold for reuse,
such as furniture, appliances,
and clothing," according to
project coordinator Bill Wooten
“Our goals are to improve
economic conditions for the
benefit of economically disad
vantaged people of Lane Coun
ty," Wooten says
The Lane Economic Develop
ment Council is a non-profit
corporation that began in 1977
The council's objectives are
to develop local resources, to
employ local people and to offer
technical assistance to
businesses that are "labor in
tensive instead of capital inten
sive," Wooten says
In addition, Wooten says,
"We look for under-utilized re
sources. such as slash, which
can be converted to chips and
firewood
"We've concentrated in the
last year on recycling."
In 1979, the development
council requested and received
a $10,000 grant from the
Department of Energy to con
duct recycling experiments in
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rural areas, where Wooten
claims "nobody recycles " The
money was used to fund a
center in Marcola, where
workers experimented with
"high grading," a method of
separating metals according to
type and grade to maximize po
tential value
The following year, the coun
cil received a $100,000 CETA
grant, which enabled it to staff
five more collection sites in
Veneta. Franklin, Dexter, Cres
well and Cottage Grove
The Company Store on Polk
Street will be used not only as a
collection site, but also as a
“retail sales" outlet, Wooten
says He estimates that workers
will gather “a boxcar load a
week" of recyclable materials
that might otherwise end up at
the county landfill
"Since there is such a volume
of stuff, things are priced very
low," he says
The center accepts and sells
everything from furniture and
clothes to books and ap
pliances Wooten says the store
has repair facilities and will ac
cept broken or damaged arti
cles
Although Wooten says the
project is operating in the red,
he's looking ahead to the time it
will have to break even The
CETA grant is due to expire in
September
“We re working to become
self-supporting," he says
Wooten admits the new store
will compete with other local
recycling companies, but he
says, "That's not our primary
objective
"There's room for competi
tion Nobody is doing more than
scratching the surface of the
recycling potential "
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