IN TOUCH
with Recycling
Coordinator operates on recycling energy
Jon Davis is one of hundred* of employees .it
the University Physical Plant, hut his job is
one of singular distinction.
1 hs title of service operation coordinator
docs not begin to describe the amount of
time, responsibility and devotion involved in paper
recycling for the entire University campus.
Oregon Daily Emerald 1 low did you come to
work with the University ’ 1V1 you create vourown
job like Karyn Kaplan (Recycling Education Pro
motion Coordinator) did’
Jon Davis Well, in essence 1 did I was fortu
nate to be in contact with a company at the right
time that was approached lor bidding on a contract
to do paper recycling for the UO. I was the person
that implemented the program that company hid
on to receive the contract to do the recycling.
' Infortunately, we had to depend on the mar
ket value of the paper resources and shortly after
the contract was won the markets tell to an all
time low. It was then determined that that com
party would have to hack out oi the contract.
When 1 saw this was going to happen I thought
of everything I possibly could to continue the pro
gram with the University. I concluded that, com
pared to any of the previous recycling programs
that I w as given any information on, this one was
much more substantial, even though there were
a minimum ot resources to do it. I he more 1 tapped
in to the way people across the campus felt about
it, the more I was encouraged to pursue it.
So Karyn and I worked closely together to do
a formal survey that stated, among other things,
that people wanted to have a substantial recycling
program lor collecting paper across campus. I hat
gave us a lot of ammunition to go to administra
tive levels. As time went on, Karyn presented
acceptable logic tor continuing the program in spite
h AndioRt
University Service Operation Coordinator Jon Davis
said he is inspired by people who want to know more
about recycling.
ol temporary low markets tor paper resources
ODE Was all this svork done as part ol vtHir )oh
.it the Physical Plant.’
Davis I was working 40 hours a week at the
Physical Plant and doing all this stuff on the sides
1 was analyzing the survey and draw ing up an analv
sis re|H>rt to present to the administrative levels
I .lid a Kit ot work at home regarding this, hut I was
inspired to do it so that was my pay tor it
ODE I low long have you been involved in recy
cling in general’
Davis 1 can remetnk-r as early as two or three
years out ot high school living in San Antonio,
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