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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
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