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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1983)
Kendall Ford Special Payment Plan Graduating Seniors On Purchase of Any New 1983 Ford Car or Truck • Tempo • Escort • Mustang • LTD • Thunderbird • Van Conversions • Ranger Pickup • Bronco or Bronco II • Econline Van • Pickups Qualifying Graduates: • Written Verification of Employment or Military Duty • Car Payments cannot exceed 20% of Gross Monthly Predicated Income • New 1983 Fords Only • 48 Month Payments Maximum 135 days before first monthly payment Financed through Ford Motor Credit at current low interest rates as low as 9.9 annual percentage rate! Oregon doily . . emerald Tfi# Orwgon 0»rty Emyratt t« pubhthM Mo<wl«y through Fnday riunnQ titan mma* ana vacation*, by fh* O»*0ofl Daity EnwiM PuMiyhtng Co, at torn Unnafailf o» 0*«qo«v «<>«•«« 0* 97403 Thy IfMfltd 0P0TM4S ihd#e*hO»nlly of fh* Uni»*f*.l, Ortth offtc** on lh# Ihwtf H<x» of fh* t«b M*mort* Uwwt 4hO .« a myrrttw' nl lh* AMOCWOd Pr**« Editor Managing Editor Haws Editor Aaa«»iant N*« i Editor Editorial Pag* Editor Phoro Editor Sport* Editor Attonar* Sport* Editor Emanammant Cdttor M»gM CdMor Harry Ettawa John Haaty Marian Qraan Cort Farnald Joan Hyland Highat Education (Japanmant* and School* Stwdam Oovarnmant Faatwra* PoMtie* Studant SanucaarCommunwy Altar* Mata Riphogat Paul Dan yar Jonathan Stag* Cort F amain Sandy Jofmtton* Frank Shaw Richard Burr Advanitmg Manage* CioaartWO Adnamarog production Manage* f n, * a c Jt a t vonf 'Wti M<haka Mat nu A lata 2ak OartanaGora Sarty C**ar victoria hoch Jaan Oanpay your turn No ecologic law Pollution and waste, by nature, are not unnatural. Everything wastes, from the atomic level to the human level to any level. However, nature has the ability to cope with this pollution and waste. This ability is ecologic law: the building materials of life — energy, air, water, soil, etc. — must be and are used over and over. Wasting or pollution, then becomes a problem only when the quantity surpasses nature's ability to cope with it, to cycle it. The fact that humans either ignore or neglect ecologic law is obvious. This blatant error is extremely evident in the fact of full to overflowing waste disposal sites and the lack of new, viable sites; the disastrous constant loss of soil; and the overall en vironmental disaster we humans have created on this planet. In Oregon, with a human population of 2,633,149 (1980 Census), approximately 2,000,000 tons of solid waste were generated in 1980. This quantity is about 4.3-4.7 and 2.7-2 9 pounds of waste per person per day in urban and rural areas respectively (Oregon Department of En vironmental Quality estimates, 1980). It is also apparent that these estimates have not changed for 1983. It is now time, no, past time, for each of us to assume responsibility for our own waste and pollution. It do not mean making sure that the garbage is “thrown away” because there is no such place as away. The trash seen every day in the cities, forests, disposal sites, etc., is not away. That garbage is here and will remain so forever in one form or another. Two bills currently in the Oregon legislaure would allow us in Oregon at least to begin to assume responsibility for our waste. These bills are HB 2244 and SB 405. House Bill 2244 would re quire waste reduction plans, including those that have already been approved, to pro vide a program for source separation of recyclable materials. Senate Bill 405 promotes recycling to a greater extent. SB 405 would require that the opportunity to recycle be pro vided to all the people of Oregon by July 1, 1986 The opportunity to recycle at its minimum is the provision of a place for collecting recyclable materials, once a month col lection of recyclables and a public education program about recycling. Another major part of SB 405 is that it would establish a strong, environmental waste policy for Oregon. This policy would give priority to waste management in the following, decreasing order: education, re-use, recycling, energy recovery and lastly, dispo sal. I strongly urge everyone to show their support for these measures, HB 2244 and SB 405, by writing or calling their elected representatives and senators. I reiterate, it is time to take responsibility and con trol of our waste problem and with these bills we can do so with economic and en vironmental viability. Brett Fisher Fisher is a freshman in biology and history. McKenzie ■■ Outfitters 2nd Annual BACKPACK & EQUIPMENT SHOW Free Admission May 13 5 pm-9 pm May 14 10 am-6 pm Meet rep’s from all major mfg. of camping equipment Meet America’s Most Famous Mountain Climbers Jim Whittaker Jim Donini Eric Reynolds & Many Others Plus Free Slide Show along with Backpacking & Whitewater Clinics
