2A ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2018 ❚ APPEAL TRIBUNE
Marion County wants
recycling to go into trash
17-year-old program scales back on items it will accept
Tracy Loew Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
Shredded paper, egg cartons, milk
boxes and most plastic containers are
all about to be banned from Marion
County’s blue bins.
The county’s 17-year-old curbside
recycling program is scaling way back
on items it will accept, in response to
China’s refusal to take most recyclable
materials from the West.
Beginning Monday, those items and
more should be thrown in the trash,
said Brian May, the county’s Environ-
mental Services Division manager.
“It’s going to be huge,” May said.
“Residents of Marion County are very
big recyclers. We know it’s going to be a
huge change to our nature.”
On Jan. 1, China stopped allowing
many materials to be imported for recy-
cling, saying contamination levels were
too high. China was the world’s largest
importer of recycled paper and plastic,
and took most of Oregon’s recycling.
About half of Marion County’s recy-
cling goes to Salem’s Garten Services,
with the rest heading to Pioneer Recy-
cling Services in Portland.
Both recyclers are among 16 state-
wide that have received special permis-
sion from the Oregon Department of
Recycling sorters pull non-recyclables off a conveyor belt at Garten Services in
Salem in January. ANNA REED/STATESMAN JOURNAL
Environmental Quality to send recycla-
ble materials to the landfill.
“Our warehouse was filled up to the
point where it was unsafe. We ended up
having to stick some stuff outside. We
didn’t have a choice,” said Will Pose-
gate, Garten’s chief operations officer.
“But the stuff doesn’t stop coming in.”
artists could exhibit their most contro-
versial works. The Silverton Art Associ-
ation’s Borland Art Gallery, at 303 Coo-
lidge Street, once again is sponsoring a
"Silverton Salon.”
A variety of artwork in various medi-
ums and subject matter, including
tasteful nudes, will be exhibited. The
exhibit is open to the public weekdays,
9 a.m. to noon, and weekends, noon to
4 p.m., through April 1.
K-8 school, the evening features din-
ner, dessert, a huge raffle, a silent
auction and a cakewalk. After last sum-
mer’s extensive seismic upgrades, this
year’s theme is “New Look, Old Tradi-
tions.”
All proceeds support kids at Victor
Point. A meal ticket is $5. A family pass
is $25. Raffle tickets are $1 apiece.
Prices for silent auction items vary.
Buy tickets ahead of time or at the
door. Winners need not be present. For
more info, call 503-873-8048.
— Christena Brooks
See RECYCLE, Page 3A
IN BRIEF
‘Treasures from the Attic’
at Lunaria Gallery
Lunaria Gallery is inviting art-lovers to
visit an eclectic show featuring works
curated from the attics of its member
artists. They have combed through
their collections to find their best
pieces to share.
Shows run through April 2. The gallery,
at 113 N. Water St., is open daily 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
— Christena Brooks
‘Silverton Salon’ now open
at Borland Art Gallery
Historically, a salon was a place where
Outdoor
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GDP was larger than that of utilities
($287 billion); mining, including the ex-
traction of oil and gas ($260 billion); but
less than transportation and warehous-
ing ($562 billion); and construction
($792 billion).
And the industry is expanding. In
2016, it grew 3.8 percent, compared to
the overall economy’s growth of 2.8 per-
cent.
The report was released by U.S. De-
partment of Commerce’s Bureau of Eco-
nomic Analysis on Feb. 14.
“The public will no doubt be sur-
prised at the economic importance of
this industry as we release prototype
statistics measuring the impact of ac-
tivities like boating, fishing, RVing,
hunting, camping, hiking, and more,”
said U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur
Ross in a news release.
Unlike other reports analyzing the
outdoor recreation industry’s economic
footprint, this is the first one not con-
Victor Point Chili Feed
is March 15
have the data to back that up.”
That information can be useful when
advocating for conservation or trying to
change policy, Cottingham said.
Although the Department of Com-
merce analysis was more narrowly fo-
cused, Cottingham said the federal find-
ings aligned with the state report.
The Recreation and Conservation Of-
fice is in charge of distributing and mak-
ing grants. Having economic data
“helps to justify our investments as part
of the bigger economic engine,” Cotting-
ham said.
Similarly, Sam Mace, the Inland
Northwest Director for Save Our Wild
Salmon, said the potential economic
benefit of conservation has long been a
key plank in Save Our Wild Salmon’s
platform and something they’ve consid-
ered and highlighted on the Lower
Snake River.
“Often that is the bottom line way you
can protect these resources, by showing
the economic driver that they are,” she
said.
The federal report will be a useful ad-
vocacy tool, said Katherine Hollis the
conservation and advocacy director for
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www.ANewTradition.com
the Mountaineers.
“It’s definitely inline with how we ap-
proach conservation work,” she said.
“There is intrinsic value in these places.
But also the outdoor recreation industry
is growing. Period. Across the board.”
The Mountaineers are based in Seat-
tle and have 13,000 members, most of
whom are in Washington.
The yearly basic alpine course has a
wait list of more than 200 people, she
said.
“They put the recreation economy at
2 percent of the GDP,” she said. “That’s a
lot. That says something about the im-
portance of these landscapes and how
we engage these landscapes.”
The Idaho Department of Parks and
Recreation found that Idaho’s state
parks contributed $184 million to the
state’s economy in 2016, according to a
study published earlier this month.
The Department of Commerce study
didn’t look at outdoor recreation retail
manufacturing revenue occurring out-
side of the U.S. Additionally, the BEA re-
port didn’t include money spent on rec-
reation trips less than 50 miles from a
person’s home.
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Kelsey Hupp,
Victor Point School’s annual Chili Feed
will be Thursday, March 15, from 5 to 8
p.m.
A long-standing tradition as this rural
ducted by a private industry association
such as the Outdoor Industry Associa-
tion.
According to the Department of
Commerce report, the outdoor recrea-
tion industry employed 4,280 people in
2016, up 2.9 percent in a year and up 6.5
percent from 2012.
Earnings for those workers grew even
quicker. Compensation for those em-
ployees totaled $203.5 billion, a 5.2 per-
cent increase from the previous year
and up 18.5 percent from 2012.
While the BEA study is unique na-
tionally, the Washington State Recrea-
tion and Conservation Office commis-
sioned and published its own economic
study in 2016.
That analysis found that outdoor rec-
reation resulted in $21.6 billion dollars
in annual expenditures in Washington
and created roughly 200,000 jobs. The
Washington study was the first of its
kind in the state.
“Now we know it’s a huge driver to
our economy as well,” said Kaleen Cot-
tingham, the director of the Recreation
and Conservation Office. “We have
known that intuitively. But we didn’t
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