Lane County a step ahead of recycling law
By Karen Creighton
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Oregon is continuing its
tradition of progressive en
vironmental laws with the re
cent implementation of the
Recycling Opportunity Art
The act is designed to help
conserve valuable natural
resources and landfills, and to
provide more jobs and improv
ed economies as more Orego
nians recycle. The law also pro
vides community education and
promotion of recycling in
Oregon.
"Semite Hill 405, which was
passed hy the 1083 legislature,
is the most comprehensive
recycling statute in the country
today." said Governor Vic
Atiyeh in a recent press
conference.
Maryanne Fitzgerald, recycl
ing specialist at the Department
of Environmental Quality office
in Portland, said the bill has
three aspects:
• Every disposal site in
Oregon is now required to ac
cept reeycleable materials.
• All solid waste collectors in
cities with populations over
4.000 are requited to pick up
reeycleable materials left on the
curbside at least once monthly.
• Towns with populations
under 4.000 now must have
recycling bins at solid waste
depots and other convenient
areas.
The newly enacted law means
increased costs for garbage col
lectors. Fitzgerald said, but
there has lieen no opposition to
the law that she knows of,
"Garbage collectors realize
this is the way of the future. We
can't just keep making mounds
of garbage," she said.
Ken Sandusky of I.ane County
Waste Management said Lane
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The Trash Menagerie is one vehicle that will be picking up recycleables along l ane County
curbsides with the enactment of Senate BUI 405.
County was following a similar
recycling policy two years
before the law was enacted The
county began designing its own
waste reduction plan in the spr
ing of 1983, several months
Indore the new law wus passed
by the State Legislature, and
modified its plan as the state
law wtfs designed. Sandusky
said
Lane County operates all of
the county's landfills. Seven
teen of these are open to the
public and do full-line recycl
ing — accepting glass, flattened
tin cans, aluminum, cardboard,
newspaper, motor oil and scrap
metal. Some sites also accept
repairable items like furniture
and appliances.
For the last two years, Lane
County has also given a $2 per
ton discount to help offset costs
to garbage collectors who col
lect curbside recycloables. San
dusky said. l.ane County of
ficials realized two years ago
there would Ik; a long period
when collectors would lie los
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labor, storage and capital costs
involved in collecting
recycleables. he said.
The county offered the dis
count to help garbage collectors
make the transition to recycling
before it was required by state
law. he added.
The county's progressive
laws were made possible by the
politics and policies of the l.ane
County Hoard of Commis
sioners. Sandusky said.
“Without the funds, none of
this would have happened,” he
said, referring to the early
implementation.
Despite the extra costs, many
garbage collectors feel
racycleable materials are worth
saving, said ken Hunter of
ken's Sanitary Service and
Recycling. Hunter's company is
one of five that form Eugene
Recycling. Inc.
The five garbage collection
services joined two years ago to
share the extra labor and capital
costs involved in recycling.
Hunter said. The collectors sell
the recycleable materials to
Weyerhaeuser Co., who hauls
all the materials, except paper
anti cardboard, to Portland
markets, he said.
Because the markets are not
close, Weyerhaeuser can pay
only minimal rates to Eugene’s
garbage collectors. Hunter said.
If more people recycle, markets
may move closer, creating more
profit and jobs in the Eugene
area, he said.
Until then, garbage collectors
gather recycleables as a service
to customers and the communi
ty, rather than for profit, he
said.
Recycling can be profitable,
though, according to Greg
Buchanan of Northwest Paper
Fibers in Eugene. “If it weren’t
profitable, we wouldn’t be
here," he said.
Northwest Paper Fibers buys
recycleable commodities, then
packages papers for mill use.
exporting paper to japan,
Korea, Taiwan, and Canada, as
well as to mills around Oregon.
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discriminates against the poor,
saying that people should not
have to choose between affor
dable housing and "beloved
members of their families."
Disease is not a concern
because he and other cat owners
keep their pets indoors, he
wrote. He said he knows of four
cat owners in the complex
l>esides himself.
The housing department
sends letters to people reported
to have cats in their apartments,
instructing alleged owners to
get rid of them, Caddini said. If
the department receives two or
more complaints about a person
within six months, it begins
eviction proceedings, he said.
Hut eviction is approached on
a case-by-case basis, he said.
“I don't think we would start
the eviction process unless we
were clearly sure this person
had a cat." he said. The hous
ing department will not visit
residents' apartments to see if
they have cats, he added.
At Sunday's meeting, Ham
den said she and tenants in her
area think the policy should be
changed, ('.at owners could be
required to keep their cats in
doors and put tags on them, and
prove that their cats had receiv
ed their shots and had been
spayed or neutered, she said.
Kick May, another ACT
representative, suggested re
quiring cat owners to pay a non
refundable deposit.
Policies should guarantee
that no one suffers, Gaddini
said. The current policy does
that, he said. Hut if people are
allowed to have cats, no one can
guarantee that the cats will not
scratch children or spread tox
oplasmosis, he said.
Cats also wdl cause damage,
he said, with the added costs
leading to a rent increase. En
forcing a limited cat-allowance
policy also will cost money, he
said.
Judy Newberry, another ACT
representative, said she suffered
when she was forced to give up
her cat to move to Amazon. She
cannot afford to live anywhere
else, she said.
After discussion, the group
appointed six people to in
vestigate the situation. Two ap
pointees oppose changing the
policy, two favor a change and
two are neutral. ACT instructed
the committee to write a posi
tion statement for each side and
outline a list of possible
options.
Amazon tenants will receive
the statements and vote on the
options. If they approve of a
change, ACT will present the
proposal to the Family Housing
Policy Hoard at its next meeting
in October. If the board ap
proves a change, the proposal
will be subject to review and ap
pro v a I by the housing
department.
Tuesday, July 29, 1986