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You Gotta Wear Shades !
The image on our cover this month is Ralph Nader,
consumer advocate who became famous in the sixties for
writing the book, "Unsafe at any Speed", an exposé of
the auto industry in general and the Corvair in
particular. Mr. Nader is less know for, but is
nevertheless responsible for, the formation of the
Oregon Students Public Interest Research Group or
OSPIRG. It seems that Mr. Nader gave a speech at Oregon
State University in 1971, at the height of the student
"unrest", and suggested that if students were serious
about changing the world, they'd better find out what
was wrong with the system and get involved in it, so
they could make it work. Not a very radical thought for
the times. Originally they thought to call it Nader's
Army, but more pacifistic voices prevailed and it was
burdened with a more accurate if somewhat
cumbersome title. OSPIRG started with college students
addressing a range of issues; environmental, political,
social, and economic.
Eventually students graduated,
and those wishing to remain active helped form Oregon
State Public Interest Research Group. This group left
the campus and hit the streets and the halls of the State
Legislature, canvassing door to door, and lobbying State
Representatives.
Eventually almost thirty Public
Interest Research Groups were started around the
country,—and a national United States Publie Interest
Research Group was founded to lobby Congress.
Your beloved editor worked for OSPIRG for four years,
so this is not objective journalism. No, we are a great
fan of OSPIRG. Why? Shouldn't we be supporting Green
Peace, or the Sierra Club, or the Nature Conservancy?
Well, sure. But, the PIRG is a homegrown group.
Typically Oregon. First it is non-partisan; second it is
moderate, almost conservative, in its agenda and
methods; it is non-confrontational, it does the
homework, finds the facts, and suggests solutions.
When it came to the attention of Oregonians that the
Utility Commissioner golfed regularly with the folks he
was suppose to regulate, OSPIRG, to the amazement of
everyone, took on PG&E in a ballot measure campaign
that suggested a Citizens' Utility Board, to replace the
single commissioner. And they won. You may have
noticed that even now (this happened twenty years ago)
you occasionally get a check from the phone company,
or some other utility. You wonder why. Well, C.U.B., like
OSPIRG, did the aforementioned homework, and found,
in the case of the phone company, that they were
charging the rate payers for the cost of advertising,
which should, of course, be paid by the stockholders.
Several million is returned to the consumers. Not a bad
deal. While at OSPIRG your beloved editor worked on the
Toxic Use Reduction campaign. Rather than an attack
on industries, and an attempt to ban toxic chemicals, it
was a program that would help industries find cheap &
safe alternatives to the toxic, and often very expensive
chemicals they were using. This not only became law in
Oregon, but eventually became a National model, and
was made the law of the land by Congress. Not exactly
the radical preservationist image so popular with the
Wise Use movement.
So, what is all this about? It seems we get the PIRG
alumni newsletter, and are amused to find some of our
old friends we worked with at PIRG are getting on in
years, and are slipping into the mainstream, forming
political consulting firms, and of course running for
office; generally acting like concerned citizens.
And. of
course, when this editorial was only half finished, there
was a knock on the door and there was an OSPIRG
canvasser. We had to laugh, and more important, we
had to write a check, because it doesn't work unless we
keep supporting positive groups like the PIRGs. So
please, join us.
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Juice Up The Bottle Bill
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BASEBALL
Oregon's Bottle Bill:
A Proud Heritage
not dependent on a throw-away
culture. By wide margins, Oregonians
Game will be played at Coors
Field, and Fergie Jenkins will
be the pitching coach for the
Senior League. The
American League will go
with some guy named Nolan
Ryan. We were asked why
the Cubs didn't win the Series
last year, after the curse was
taken off by parading a goat
around the "friendly
confines". The answer is, of
course, there was no Series.
So, does that mean this is the
year? Of course it does, if we
finish the season. If there is
a Series this year, the Cubs
will be in it. Well, if you
can't trust a goat, who can
you trust?
support policies that will reduce,
reuse, recycle and conserve energy.
1960's
Disposable beverage containers replace
Deposits on beverage containers,
refillabies. creating rampant liner
such as those under the bottle bill, are
1971
the single most effective means to
encourage the use of refillable bottles
Oregon passes nation's first bottle b4l
and increase container recycling
rates.
1970’s -1 9 8 0 ’s
Nine other stales adopt bottle bill, roadside
litter in Oregon reduced by over 80%
1990’s
OSPIRG and Mrs. Tom McCall's
ballot initiative will extend the deposit
requirement to all single-serving
beverage containers, except liquor,
wme and dairy products, accomplish­
ing the following important goals:
New types ot beverages, such as Snapple
and other tea. juice, and mineral water
drinks, proliferate but are not covered
under the bottle bill
1991,1993
Attempts to expand bottle bill defeated by
special interest lobbying.
■ REDUCE the amount of litter and
waste generated in Oregon.
1995
Safeway and oihers push Io repeal bottle
bi». O SPIRG launches campaign io
defend and expand the bottle bill
■ RECYCLE AND REUSE an
additional ,00 million containers per
year.
■ CONSERVE energy and create
jobs: Making one new aluminum can
takes as much energy as recycling 20
cans. Recycling waste creates 9
times more jobs than landfilling.
Source INFORM
■OSPIRG
1 5 3 6 SE 1 1 TH A V E N U E .
Campaign, ,536 SE 11th Avenue,
Portland, OR 97214.
covered under the bottle bill a re recycled at a ra le o t 9 3 %
PORTLAND. OR 97214
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Authorized by the Oregon Bottle Bill
An Oregon Success
■ T h e bottle bill is the single m ost effe ctive recycling p ro g ra m e ve r. Bottles
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The bottle bill k e e p s 7 1 .8 0 0 tons of containers out of o u r landfills e a c h year.
That is enough to fill
up over 3 .0 0 0
com pactor g a rb a g e
trucks.
The Bottle Bill Works
■ Recycling one
or C O N T E .U T S
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alum inum can s av es
enough energy Io run
your T V for three
hours The annual
N e a rly all of deposit glass
bottles (9 3 % ) are recycled
m O re g o n , w hile only 2 8 %
of n on-deposit glass bottles
a re recycled
energy savings
achieved through
O regon's bottte bill
(lor alum inum only)
is equal to 2 0 million
gallons ot oil.
28%
■ 9 5 % ot all plastic
bottles recycled in
the United S tates
com e from the ten
states with bottle
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Source Oregon Depl of Environmental Ouefty IDEO). 1994
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