Recycling:
By Harry Esteve
Of Vw Emerald
SEASIDE —“Recycling is falling out of
the hands of non-profit groups in it for
the environment and into the hands of
businesses in it for the money, according
to several speakers at a weekend recy
cling convention
But cooperation between the two
groups will mean more efficient recy
cling, the speakers noted
Representatives from both non-profit
and profit recycling organizations gath
ered in unusual harmony for the fourth
annual conference, held at Seaside
The three-day event, sponsored by the
Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR),
included workshops and speeches on
how to recycle everything from old
buildings to plastic pop bottles
The conference, called "The Business
of Recycling in the 80s." dealt with cur
rent market conditions, business stra
tegies, tax incentives for recyclers and
the future of recycling
The cooperation between private trash
haulers and represenatives of the bever
age container industry was striking, ac
cording to conference participants In
some states — California and Washing
ton in particular — recyling organizations
often are resented by trash companies
who see them as competitors financed
by tax money
But Oregon doesn't have these prob
lems because recyclers and industry
representatives here "have an unwritten,
but certainly not an unspoken rule that
we kind of pack the guns and leave them
by the door.” said AOR chairer Lee
Barret
In fact, "the trend in Oregon is toward
recycling being done more and more by
the garbage hauler," rather than by
community based or volunteer organiza
tions such as Lane County’s BRING.
Barret said
Haulers have the capital necessary to
make them successful, he added
Barret was an early member of the
Portland Recycling Team, one of
Oregon's first non-profit organizations
dedicated to collecting and selling news
papers, bottles and cans for re-use
The organization, which at one time
was the biggest of its kind in the United
States, currently is considering selling
out to a profit company
But some members of the organization
are worried that the interested company
may take over "just to phase us out."
said Mark Peterman, a lawyer with the
Portland Recycling Team
Other members have philosophical
reasons for wanting the organization to
continue as a non-profit corporation.
Peterman said They are worried that a
profit company might not be dedicated
enough to the idea of recycling
Barret didn t agree with this reasoning
"If a profit company comes along and
does the |ob better than we can do the
job. we really shouldn't fight them for that
recycled material," he said
"I don't care if guys from Mars come
down and do the recycling aslong as it
gets done "
Environmental reasons shouldn t be
the only reasons for recycling, Barret
said Profit motives should be just as
viable
"As long as the guy that's in it for the
bucks does virtually all the stuff that the
guy who's in it for the environment does,
then what the hell difference does it
make?"
Barret stressed that recyclers in other
states need to learn from Oregon's ex
ample and find a "common ground" with
To profit
or not?
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Photo by Dave Kao
Once the pet project of various charities, the recycling of paper, bottles and cans has
become a profitable venture
profit industries He uses music as an
example
'I think Mozart is the best and you
think Bach is the best It would be sense
less for us to argue over which of the two
is the greatest composer It would be
easier for us to both step back and say
Hey, we both agree that classical music
is where it’s at as far as music is con
cerned and not worry about the differ
ences ’ You can always find differ
ences"
In the closing speech of the confer
ence, the president of a Portland metals
firm said industry will be paying much
more attention to re-using resources
such as glass, aluminum and paper.
Cities will be including more recycling in
their solid waste management programs,
he added.
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