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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 2001)
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Free parking. $3 per person, $6 per family. (541)346-3024 A benefit by the Friends of the Museum of Natural History natural-history.uoregon.edu EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity. Adam Amato Emerald Student employees use these trucks, parked outside the Campus Recycling Center, to collect and transport recyclable materials. Choose the right bin: recycle ■ Campus Recycling has been working hard for the past decade to save forests and money By Anne LeChevallier for the Emerald A newspaper, thrown into a trashcan on 13th Avenue, ends up in a landfill. But another newspaper, thrown into a nearby recycling bin, will pass across the globe in its path to becoming a new product. Karyn Kaplan, the Campus Recy cling Program Manager at the Univer sity, explained that students and staff who choose to recycle participate in a world-wide effort to conserve natural resources and move toward an eco nomically sustainable future. Whether or not students and staff regularly choose to recycle, Campus Recycling, the program that handles all recyclable materials, is at least con sistent. Like a garbage collector, it does not stop for breaks or summer vaca tion. Day after day, week after week, student employees cross campus to pour newspapers and other recyclable materials into collection bags. After filling their bags, students dump them in barrels at the EMU collection site. At the recycling warehouse on Franklin Boulevard, the employees empty trucks of these barrels. Pour ing the barrels into large bins, they remove improperly sorted contami nants. Then, they transfer half-ton bins of separated papers weekly to a local processing plant, where the re cyclables are sold to a market. Whether the paper stays local or goes overseas, it is re-pulped and manufactured as newspaper, flower pots or other products. By recycling paper, Campus Recy cling conserves forests and creates in come, according to Kaplan. She ex plained that other funds come from a cooperative agreement with the ASUO, the University administration and University Housing. When de mand is low, Campus Recycling actu ally pays companies to take the recy clables. However, because the recycling fee is still less than the cost of sending the materials to the dump, Campus Recycling has saved the Uni versity huncireds of thousands of dol lars. Thus, a recycler’s split-second decision to throw a newspaper into the correct bin made an economic and environmental impact that he or she probably never realized. Last year, ac cording to statistics compiled by Campus Recycling, such decisions saved the University approximately $160,000 in waste collection fees. When the program was founded in 1991, the staff recovered 10 per cent of University waste. Eight awards, 10 years and 600 student employees later, Campus Recycling saves 44 percent of University waste from heading to the landfill. Kay Coots, a member of the Environ mental Issues Committee, said that the program’s recovery rate is re strained by the market. She ex plained that even if it collects differ ent types of plastics, Campus Recycling must still have a vendor to accept the materials. Although the statistics show the strides students and staff have made, Kaplan believes they still can improve. Operations Recycling Co ordinator Jim Fleck emphasized that students and staff should focus on recycling better. When people do not properly sort recycling, Campus Recycling devotes time and finan cial resources to keep contaminants out of the wrong bins. “No matter how noble [recycling] seems,” he said, “We still have to pull transparencies off paper.” Kaplan and Fleck agree that peo ple must change their attitudes and behaviors if they want to make an environmental impact. For exam ple, Kaplan says people see a recy cling bin as another garbage can. She wants people to help the entire process by purchasing products that have been or can be recycled. Fleck hopes people are conserva tive when they produce. “Don’t cut down a tree to make a poster about a conference if you al ready sent out e-mails,” he said. “If you hold this [poster] up to a tree, it doesn’t make sense. You can’t re place a tree in five years. ” Run your “For Sale” ad (items under $1,000) for 5 days in the ODE Classified section. If the item(s) doesn’t sell, call us at 346-4343 and we’ll run your ad again for another 5 days FREES Student/Private Party Ads Only • No Refunds Symposium searches for business solutions Guest Commentary Robyn Scofield The Sustainable Business Symposium, an ASUO stu dent group, holds a confer ence every year to provide a unique forum in which business and community leaders can talk about ways to operate with maxi mum environmental responsibility and at the same time build prof itable businesses. Business and sustainability For some people, the words business and sustainability are contradictory, but finding the re lationship between these two words may be the key to saving the environment. Mike Russo, a business professor and SBS facul ty adviser, said, "Businesses are Turn to SBS, page8B
