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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."