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Buy any size mug and get a FREE Pepsi fountain drink. a. a., emu. food services: • Atrium • Skylight • Fountain Court Cafe *AAA • Fishbowl/Deli • Breezeway • The Daily Grind EARTH DAY Recovery facility will be built to recycle county ys dry waste Anew, S3 5 million materials recovery facility will be burfl in Gienwood this year to recycle Lane County dry com mefcml waste, which 19 currently being land f.Hed EcoSort, a joint venture between liberty Financial Group and Willamette Resources. Inc . plans to recover and recycle 11,000 tons of commercial wastes during its first year 0! operation in 1996. Bob Fenstermacher. executive vice-president of liberty F manaai Group, sa d h>$ firm discovered, through testing, that about half of **ach load ot mixed commercial waste is recyclable Many commercial materials that am r*» . ■ laNe but are ■ ur renfly be rig land ' •*<) include newspaper, appliances, con crete, wood, metal and card board Although 80 to 85 percent ot Lane County households recycle materials, it is difficult for Lane County businesses to do the same ' 1' Ira MutlMutter. -r- ,»(.< t»unt manager with Cawood Communi cations, said EcoSort will help businesses recycle efficiently, thereby obtaining n»»w recyclable tonnage that hasn't been recy cled m the past “It's hard tor small businesses to source separate, so they end up throwing it all into a dump ster,' Huftstutter said 'EcoSort will solve this problem Commer cial haulers now have a pin <* to lake mixed dumpsters to." Huftstutter • ,ud EcoSort win have a great effect on current landfill conditions Short Moun tain is the only landfill in Lane County and current conditions have limited its useful life to ?0 years 'EcoSort will extend the We of our only landfill," Huff stutter said 'Through its operation. 7 to 10 percent less per year will go into Shod Mountain landfill* All recyclable materials that Ei oSort recovers win be sold to markets Sanipac, Inc . the area's Wrgest waste hauler and a com pany that has contracted to haul commercial waste to EcoSort, has already established relation Ships with companies that pur chase recyclable items Lane County has also been very aggressive in finding buyers tor FIRST YEAR RECYCLING TONNAGE Projected figures by EccwkxI Inc. for 1996 recycling tonoage waste items Huffstutter wants the public to understand that individual and business recycling programs do have vaiue ■Recycled items aren't just stacked m a building some where," Huffstutter said “These items go back to markets and get reused The materials will go into your next car or appliance The loop's getting closed " The facility will encompass both automotive and manual labor, making the recycling (Focess more flexible tor employ ees to recover different recy clable items as markets change Merle Irvine, vicepresident of Willamette Resources, Inc., said the market value ot recyclable commodities changes constantly E coSort can respond to the mar kets by changing the assign ments of manual sorters to pull materials that have current mar ket value EcoSort's system for removing recyclable goods from commer cial waste ts simple, yet efficient As toads come into the plant, they will be dumped on the build mg's concrete floor Large items such as wood, appliances and concrete will be removed Remaining items will be pushed on a conveyer belt and dropped on a shaker screen Whatever does not fall through the sma h es of the screen wilt tall onto a sorting conveyer Employees will remove mar ketable items from the conveyer and drop them down shoots F rom there, they are taken to var tous markets Whatever remains alter this process will be land filled Irvine said this will be the first time a major supplier (Sanipac). processor (EcoSort) and market (Weyerhaeuser) will all be under one roof. All three will be jointly using the system, which will reduce redundancies Half the facility will be leased to Weyerhaeuser Recycling, which will relocate its Cross Street oper ations for processing recyclable paper to the new facility. At the new site, Weyerhaeuser will con tinue to process paper liber from its own sources, as well as recy clable paper from EcoSort Irvme agrees that EcoSort will have a great impact on the cur rent landfill conditions "In 1994, Lane County recycled 116,000 Ions of material." Irvine said "Ecosorl will add 11,000 ions to that That's a 10 percent increase out of one facility That's a very strong number especially considenng the gener al public is not being charged for the service the plant provides Huffstutter said Lane County has a June 1995 recycling goal of 30 percent The year 2000'S recycling goal is 50 percent Pulling the next 20 percent will be dilficult, Huffstutter said, but EcoSort will help A July ground breaking is planned, with completion set for January 1 996 In the inter m i temporary facility will be opera tional within the next 60 day s Jennifer Carr Program may help timber employees Olympia (AP) — Gov Mike Lowry and US Rep Norm Dicks have urged support (or a stale program that puts dislocated timber-industry employees back to work restoring the environment The Jobs and Environment Watershed Restoration Program "makes sense from every standpoint,” Lowry said Tuesday at a rally on the Capitol steps that drew nearly 200 dislocated timber workers and environ mentalists "It puts the e*perience ol good, hard-working peo ple who lost their jobs right back into the woods " Dicks, D-Wash.. encouraged the crowd to go one on-one with legislators to see that the program gets landed “The money is not in either the House or Senate budgets — it will have to be added m conference com mittee," he said. "Let's see that this gets done." Some members ol the crowd carried signs bearing slogans such as "Wildlife Needs Help" and "Create Jobs Not Dislocation." Rep Lynn Kessler. D-Hoquiam, said she was out raged that the House budget contained no money (or the program, "It boggles the mind that we're not witling to put one damn time into a program that gives people dignity," Kessler told those attending the rally "We found a program that works arid makes sense, and now we're going to get rid of it," she said "It makes no sense “ Sen Jim Hargrave, D-Hoquiam, urged the crowd to pressure members of the Republican-controlled House to back up the state's timber workers “The House budget is $17.3 billion and they say they are not budging off of that number," Hargrove said. Timber workers lost theif |obs through no fault of their own. he said. "Federal laws caused them to lose their jobs," Har grove said, referring to recent court rulings that have curbed logging in the region, citing violations of laws designed to protect the environment and endangered species The restoration program "brought together the need for habitat restoration with the need for jobs," said a news release from the Watershed Restoration Alliance, which helped organize the rally. “Timber workers skilled m logging techniques have the skills it takes to mend fish and wildlife habitat."
