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New recycling bill may change garbage collectors practices By Tiffany Woods ftv ttv O#00r> iia/fy Garland Rurhack, owner of Cottage Grove Garbage Service, recently bought two new recycling trucks, hired two dri vers. converted an older garbage tnu k into a plastics hauler and paid Si l.txxi for blue curbside recycling crates And he's losing $3,000 a month on recy cling. The Cottage Grove Garbage Service is one of several local garbage collectors that is changing the way it does business because of recent recycling legislation. This 1991 piece of (Oregon legislation is Senate Bill 06, which mandates that garbage haulers provide same-day re< y cling collection to their residential i.us tnmers in addition to their normal services It also requires the state and county gov ernments to meet recycling quotas. Cine County must recycle 30 |>en ent of its waste by the end of 1095 and 40 percent by the year 2000 As a state agency, the I Jniversity is also required to meet county goals As of April 1. it was recycling 39 percent of its waste, said Karyn Kaplan, campus r*s vcling coor dinator. "The legislation has helped plant the seed for rwc vcling." Kaplan said ‘'With out it. re» viding wouldn't bo moving ahead so smoothly " However, she does sympathize with the garbage i ollei tors She suggests that the collectors lobby the legislators for busi ness incentives and tax breaks for rei v cltng I he garbage collection business has changed forever because of this legislation, said (airy Schafer, owner of south Eugene's AC.ME Disposal Service It is no longer solely trash-oriented. Trash disposal and recycling now go hand-in-hand Lane County has between 15 and 20 garbage c ollectors. They range from the largest collector. Sanipat . to the smaller, family owned types sin h as Countryside Disposal. Hut whatever their size, they are all making adjustments For example, Sanipai. which serves all of Eugene and Springfield, bought i t rec y • ling trui ks for $40,000 eac h. hired addi tional drivers and relief drivers and bought 40,000 curbside recycling i rates for $(• each The company just ordered two mom rei vcling trucks for SHH.000 each Schafer saicf recycling is half of his busi ness Although ho said he loses money on ret vi I mg. he sees it ns a cost of doing busi ness, ranking his garbage service as the third largest in the county Countryside Disposal, based in Veneta. is a small garbage service that serves hih) customer* and is owned by l.ori and Jason Lovewell Mrs l.ovnwell does the paper work and sorts the recyc.ling while her hus band drives the tnu k She said they i an t afford to him an extra person nt minimal w age The Senate Hill 66 has a "terrifit finan cial impact because we are not compen sated," Mrs Lovewell said "The idea of re< vi ling is wonderful, but to put the bur den on the haulers without t ompensaling them is difficult We are a small hauler, so we fool that more than the bigger haulers " However, the county does provide some assistaiu e It pays the collectors $t>H for every ton of plastic, glass or tin they col lect Nevertheless, smaller collet tors still feel the finant to I drain Legislation favors the big companies." saul Kathryn Cox. sales representative nt Sampai Little businesses ire driven out bet ause of legislation that requires free recycling Hut Cox added that Sam pm: is not in danger of Iteing pushed out because it has not pinned its economic future on recy cling Trash is still a moneymaker In addition. Brian Fuller, acting gener al manager at Begin Ret ycling in Neigh borhood Groups (BRING), said that because of the abundance of rei volatile materials. pri< es go down and the buyers pay the col lei tors less County officials recognize that the hill has disrupted traditional market dynam ics When collection is mandated and supply is assured, it removes the incen tive for end-users (buyers) to to be com petitive." Sandusky said "They lower the pro es that they will pay colli* tors ” On the other hand, lie said, the legisla tion is beneficial bee ause it ent ourages businesses to enter the recycling market because of the assured supply of materi als For example. Weyerhaeuser expand ed its paper mill in Springfield lust year to process junk mail because it know it would have a guaranteed supply. San dusky said Additionally, several local businesses Turn to GARBAGE. Page 10 bum, denial may deter victims from reporting acquaintance rape oy Kegma Brown For the Oregon Daily Fmerahl It was in the summer before her freshman year of col lege when Melissa Adams set out for what should have been a good time. After spending o day at the Oregon Country Fair, she and her boyfriend decided to camp near Cougar hot springs. It should have been a day to relax and to enjoy the company of some seemingly friendly people who offered to share their food. Iwier and campfire songs It should have been fun, hut it wasn't. It turned out to he a nightmarti Adams will never forget Sometime during the wee hours of the morning, intox icated and exhausted from all the merrymaking, Adams curled up under a tree and passed out. About an hour lat er Adams awoke to find her clothing around her knees and a man's body thrust against hers The man, whom Adams had met that evening, was raping her Men who rape can he boyfriends, friends, study part ners or any other man a woman knows. Acquaintance rape makes up 80 to 8r> percent of all rapes. and at least 95 jam ent of rapes are committed bv men against women, said Iim id organisations that deal with rope Campus and community groups that work with rape vu tints suv acquaintance ra|>e is grossly under-reported among students Nationally, only one out of every lit rapes is reported, according to Fill statistii s Sexual Assault Support Servo es of lame County said it rei eiveri 1,449 documented calk from University gtudents m t<m:t Mam more cases went undo* umented, center officials said Despite this high number, the University's Unwanted Sexual Assault Task Fort u r»*< eived only six unofficial reports of date and acquaintance rape, and the Dean of Students Offir e received lie tween three and six The low level of reports has been attributed to many reasons, including (liffit uIt grievuru e processes. unfounded feel tugs of guilt on the pert of the victim and even denial that rape has occurred. Officials from Wontenspat e, the University Women's ( enter, and SASS said bringing charges against an attar k er through the Eugene polue department and through the University is slow ami painful. Ms understanding (of the t tniversitv pros ess) is that it is a ( umlx’rsomc and burdensome prix nss that makes vie tuns had as if they haw not been hoard." said Julio Johnson, the program ioorduulor for SASS "The vii tun often feels as if she is the one on trial (dins Scott of Men mid Women Against Rape said the court system draws a fine line when it comes to rapt with in intimate relationships If a woman has willingly had ses with her attai ker in the past, poll* e mas douht that rape ocr urnul. he said I he firs! question police ask rape vit tuns is w hetlier or not thes base had sexual relationships with the altar k er ill tile past, said Mir helle Parks, coordinator of the Women's Center Past sexual relationships with the att.n k er have no hearing on whether rape has or t urrod, she said. I Ins question sends a message to victims that they will Turn to RAPE, Paon 11 Police receive 60 phone calls from students approached by suspect asking directions By Susanne Steffens Oregon Daily (rnaiakl In response to on article in the May 26 edition of the Emerald. where Eugene police warned female students about a suspicious suspect on campus, the police received more than fit) telephone calls from students who had been approached hv the suspect within a short period. The police appreciate the overwhelming response from the public., which made them identify the suspect According to sergeant Dennis Baker, the police contacted the sus pect. hut he was not charged, as no report is Tiled against him. The suspect has been asking women for directions to the Univer sity Inn. and then very insistently asked them to get into the car with him to show the way. None of the women have pressed charges, as they have not been harmed by the suspect, hut the police believe the man to possibly be dangerous, and still advise women to be careful The suspect is about 5-foot-7, has brown hair and brown eyes, and a Spanish accent. On several occasions, he has been wearing a white T-shirt with writing on it. and a pair of blue sweat pants He has been observed in a red full size pickup truck, hut may be driving another vehicle. The police asks women who have been approached by the suspect, to call campus police at 346-2904 as soon as possible. ETALS MISCELLANEOUS KMl Oaf) (jwl#r will begin regiktration for i!» tummer workkhop* ami cuimm on Wednesday at 10 a m The tenter offer* workshop* m jewelry. ter am u s. woodwork ing. photography, calligraphy, weaving, stained glaa*. bike repair, drawing, painting ami more. 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