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Fury % 9:35 p.m. Dead Man Walking r Sunday, October 7 /1 7:25 p.m. La Ciudad (The City) m val passes {good for all five films): $20 and Eugene Bijou Art-Cinemas. 49£||t§jgAve., Eugene: 686-245S Eugene Weekly, t25.t Lincoln St, Eugene, 434-0519 See the festival program guide in the October 4 Eugene Weekly for film summaries or check www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/films.shtml af Jonathan House Emerald Many Lane County residents, including those in the campus area, have been recycling almost everything, even computers. This attitude toward waste reduction helped bring the county to having the best recycling record in the state. County’s recycling best in state ■ BRING helps Lane County residents win recognition for their waste recovery efforts By Aaron Shakra for the Emerald Lane County residents can give themselves a pat on the back for be ing the No. 1 recyclers in the state. At the end of August, Lane County was recognized by the Oregon De partment of Environmental Quality for recovering and recycling 52 per cent of all collected waste. This is well above the Oregon state average of 38.9 percent. The achievement comes at an op portune time for Begin Recycling in Neighborhood Groups , which is a recycling service for Lane County while in the midst of celebrating its 30-year anniversary. BRING is one of the nation’s longest-running not for-profit recycling organizations. BRING General Manager Julie Daniels said that because BRING is solely not-for-profit, it puts a spot light on recycling that for-profit businesses and governments other wise wouldn’t be able to do. “There are few communities na tionwide that have the opportunity that we have in Lane County,” she said. She also complimented the Uni versity’s own recycling system, calling it one of the better campus recycling programs in the country. She said that because BRING in troduced recycling into the Eugene community, it is viewed as a leader of innovation in providing such services. “Recycling is so ingrained within our community that we take it for granted,” she said. “We want to raise the bar and keep setting the standard.” Because there is very little waste material that cannot be recycled, Daniels said that a 52 percent re covery rate is only the beginning. “We’re always asking, ‘How can we do this more effectively or effi ciently?’” she said. State Rep. Vicki Walker, D-Eu gene, was a volunteer for BRING during its infancy. While she ex pressed enthusiasm for Lane Coun ty’s achievement, she is also disap pointed in the fact that more recycling services aren’t available statewide. “Unfortunately, it isn’t cost-effec tive,” she said. Walker said that while she hopes companies will change their manufacturing processes to use fewer materials, the responsi bility of recycling should be placed on the individual. She suggested that consumers act con scientiously by purchasing items with less packaging. “We have to make room in our landfills and make them last for many years,” she said. Walker also spoke regarding the city of Eugene’s new curbside yard debris receptacles, noting that they will increase the percentage of re cycled material. State Rep. Phil Barnhart, D-Eu gene, said due to the enormous amount of packaging material in products, certain economic factors must be in place to increase the percentage of recycling done in Lane County. “The issue is developing markets for recycled material and to devel op incentives for manufacturers to recycle,” he said. Barnhart said that a mandated reduction of packaging can only occur at a federal level, and that the state’s responsibility is to en courage recycling on a local level. “We have to be careful about get ting involved at a state level, be cause it’s an economic issue,” he said. “Once recycled material has value and will lower (a business’s) overall cost, businesses will be come more involved in recycling.” Aaron Shakra is a freelance reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. News briefs Senators debate airline security legislation WASHINGTON (KRT) — Apply ing pressure to the Bush administra tion Tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators urged the federal govern ment to take over security at the na tion's 140 largest airports. "I, for one, don't think we should contract out our national security," said Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, one of several senators to dismiss the competence of current airport secu rity workers. Lawmakers in the House and Sen ate have tried for the last week to work out a deal on legislation to step up airline security following the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings. By Tuesday night, however, an agreement had not been reached, and the heads of several airline secu rity companies were lobbying mem bers of Congress not to take their con tracts away. The most difficult and controver sial issue is whether to federalize the airport security force responsible for screening passengers and baggage. A bipartisan group in the Senate favors that solution as a way to restore public confidence in the safety of air travel. —Jill Zuckman Chicago Tribune © 2001, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services ‘Coming Out’ to celebrate Beginning today, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Educational and Support Services Program will sponsor a week of events leading up to National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. The first event of the week, the “Make Your Voice Heard” postcard campaign will run through today. From 11 to 1 p.m. in the EMU Am phitheater, students can stop by the LGBT booth to write a postcard about the issues that matter to them. LGBT will mail the postcards to legislative representatives so they are received during the week of National Coming Out Day. A full list of upcoming events will be provided next week. — Compiled from Emerald staff Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.The Emerald operates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private property. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable by law. 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