Area recyclers offer varied services
By Hank Trotter
Of the Emerald
Eugene residents dump e
nough garbage daily to bury the
entire Autzen Stadium football
field, including endzones, under
twenty feet of trash
That 1,000 tons of garbage is
the lifeblood of fifteen compan
ies, cooperatives and charities
in the area, all working to recy
cle much of that tonnage before
it hits the landfill
Everything, from old clothes
and furniture to wine bottles and
cardboard boxes, can be given
or sold to local recyclers
Northwest Resource Recy
cling, for example, buys all
scrap paper, metals and glass
Much of the University's waste
paper is handled by the com
pany
Northwest claims that paper
made of completely recycled
fiber uses 70 percent less en
ergy to produce and creates 60
percent less pollution than
paper made of virgin wood
r
Northwest sells recycled paper,
"Oregon’s Tree Saver Paper,”
wholesale and retail from
Northwest's 830 W Second St
office
Smith and Hill Systems Ltd ,
2405 Cross St., also pays for all
recyclables and will even take
plastic, a service unique in the
Eugene area
Northwest Paper Fibers, 2070
Cross St., purchases card
board, computer print outs and
newspaper
Paper prices are currently
depressed, so unless you liter
ally have one ton of paper,
which will net about twenty dol
lars, you may want to use the
Eugene Mission's red news
paper drop boxes
From these boxes the Mission
receives 50 percent of its
revenues for providing meals
and housing for Eugene's poor
and destitute
Eugene's most comprehen
sive recycling service is BRING,
Begin Recycling in Neighbor
hood Groups This non-profit
organization does not pay for
recyclables but relies on dona
tions at its thirteen permanent
and four mobile recycling sites
BRING is an off-shoot of the
University's Earth Day 1970 ac
tivities
Aluminum, scrap metal, bot
tles. cans, paper, brown bags,
cardboard, car batteries and
used motor oil are all accepted
by BRING.
In the University community
BRING is located at 15th Aven
ue and Agate Street near the
University Food-Op and in the
Amazon and Westmoreland
housing complexes
Many of Eugene's garbage
services also offer to pick up
recyclables
Garbagio's, a consumer
owned cooperative disposal
service, is based on and sup
ported in part by recycling
Garbagio's customers are
asked to separate glass, paper,
metal and food scraps from the
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Garbagios is one of 15 recycling groups in the Eugene-Springfield
area
"garbage " Recyclables are
picked up on alternating weeks
and stored in a warehouse to be
sold later. A one dollar mem
bership fee is charged along
with the normal garbage service
fee
The Lane County Hauler s
Association, a group of seven
disposal services, also offers to
pick up recyclables for free
Emerald, A-1, Ken's, Apex,
Lane and Danebo provide recy
cling services with regular gar
bage service Sani-Pac, also a
member of the Hauler's As
sociation, will only pick up
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north of Main Street They are a
quiet, unpretentious people
who keep to themselves and
enjoy Springfield for being ex
actly what Eugene isn’t.
It's the young people who
make the most noise. Trapped
in a city with little to do and little
hope for improving their situa
tion, the young seem edgy,
restless
At night, their attention
focuses on the Lost Dutchman
Lounge," a night club on Main
Street with live entertainment —
on stage and off
On any given Friday, a line of
Harley-Davidsons holds vigil in
front Inside, a giant bouncer
checks everyone's age The
bikers covet the large tables in
the middle, but stay off the
dance floor
Toward early morning, the
music stops, the patrons spill
onto the sidewalk, not yet ready
to go home A half-hearted fight
breaks out near the bikes The
weary leftovers amble next door
to Larry and Kathy’s 24-hour
greasy spoon where they sober
up on cigarettes and coffee
This is Springield, where the
downtown bingo parlor packs
them in Thursday nights; where
high schoolers search for un
paved streets so they can spit
gravel beneath their loud,
powerful cars, where Saturday
afternoon softball is sacred
Someone built a monument to
Springfield At the city's west
entrance, past the used car lots,
auto parts stores and hock
shops that line Franklin
Boulevard coming from
Eugene, stands a white hor
seman The horse and rider
have been sculpted from an an
onymous material which, from
the road, resembles a cross
between plastic and chalk
The shape of the sculpture is
bulky The faceless, featureless
rider awkwardly straddles an
ill-proportioned horse Trees
and weeds all but obscure the
25-foot statue from view
The sculpture stands as a
testament to the flawed, de
pressed, dying city it guards
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