New recycling bill may change garbage collectors practices
By Tiffany Woods
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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
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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
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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.
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