Come fall, yard debris will move to new home
■ A Eugene program aims to
extend the life of landfills
and increase convenience
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
In an attempt to lower landfill
costs and prolong the life of Eu
gene landfills, the city will be en
acting a mandatory yard debris
program in September.
The program will add $3.20 to
each month’s garbage bill, but
some residents will actually save
money in the long run, said Sam
Miller, co-owner of Lane Garbage
APEX Disposal Service.
“People are already paying extra
rates for putting bags of grass on
the curb or filling up their cans
with yard debris rather than
garbage,” Miller said.
Nancy Young, solid waste/recy
cling analyst for Eugene Planning
and Development, said yard debris
currently makes up 10 percent of
most landfills. She said this pro
gram will extend the life of the
landfills and be convenient for Eu
gene residents.
“This program will add a con
venience to those who haul their
own yard debris because it pro
vides a service they can count on,”
Young said. “For those materials
people don’t want to compost, it
also provides an environmentally
friendly alternative.”
But not everybody is as opti
mistic about the program.
This program will add
a convenience to those
who haul their own yard
debris because it provides
a service they can count
on.
NancyYoung
analyst,
Eugene Planning and
Development
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Steven Kuhn, who co-owns
ASW disposal with his wife, said
the yard debris program is going to
hurt his hauling business and up
set his customers.
“When we put this higher cost
on the bill, it angers people,” Kuhn
said. “The program is a good idea,
but the fact that it’s mandatory is
bad.”
Miller, who supports the plan,
said his company will have to add
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a separate truck to its pick-up op
eration, as will all other hauling
companies. But a portion of the
money from the program will com
pensate for the truck and its drop
off to either Lane Forest Products
or Rexius Forest By-Products Inc.
Hauling companies will also be
responsible for providing cus
tomers with a 65-gallon can
marked for yard debris only.
Young said the city took into
a
consideration the cost of adding
trucks to a hauling company, the
increased number of workers nec
essary and many other factors
when determining how much to
charge for the program.
“If people are able to put the
yard debris that would have gone
into their garbage cans into a sepa
rate can, they can possibly lower
their garbage can size or reduce the
number of times their garbage is
picked up, which would lower
their bill,” Young said.
Garbage cans are issued by area
haulers. The most widely used can
size is 32 gallons.
Those residents who use a 21
gallon can, live in an apartment
building, mobile home park or a
condominium or have 32-gallon
cans emptied only once a month
will not use the yard debris pro
gram.
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