Community / A.C.E.
August 1, 2016
Anita Menon, Anita Yap selected
as new members of RACC board
Oregon Bottle Bill
redemption value to
increase to 10 cents
The redemption value of returnable containers in
Oregon will increase to 10 cents in 2017. At a recent
monthly meeting, the commissioners of the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission (OLCC) reviewed statewide
beverage container redemption data from the past two
calendar years, as directed by the Oregon legislature
through House Bill 3145. The law states that if the return
rate for beverage containers fell below 80 percent for two
consecutive years, then the redemption value would
increase from five cents to 10 cents per container within a
designated timeframe.
After reviewing the data provided by the industry, the
commissioners determined that the rates of redemption
for the last two years were 64.45 percent in 2015 and 68.26
percent in 2014, which are significantly less than the 80
percent threshold set by the legislature. In compliance
with HB 3145, the bottle bill redemption value will
increase to 10 cents per beverage container beginning
April 1, 2017.
“We have many partners in the beverage, retail, and
recycling industries,” says Steve Marks, OLCC executive
director. “We will be working with our partners over the
next eight months to make this transition as smooth as
possible for consumers and industry employees.”
In anticipation of the commission’s determination, the
OLCC has already reached out to product manufacturers,
beverage distributors, and retail outlets to discuss
labelling changes, product sell-through issues, signage at
stores, and information resources for clerks to support
customer awareness and education. To facilitate the
regulatory issues, the OLCC is likely to pursue formal
rulemaking to ensure clarity for both industry and
consumers.
Oregon’s Bottle Bill was introduced in 1971 as the very
first bottle bill in the United States. It currently covers
beverage containers under three liters that contain water/
flavored water, soda water/mineral water, carbonated soft
drinks, and beer/malt beverages.
The bill helps ensure materials used to manufacture
beverage containers are recycled, thus reducing the
energy required to produce the containers and reducing
greenhouse gasses.
In 2009, more than one billion beverage containers were
recycled under the Bottle Bill. Recycling those beverage
containers saved three trillion BTUs of energy, the
equivalent to the amount of energy in 24 million gallons of
gasoline. That recycling also reduced greenhouse gas
emissions by nearly 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide
equivalents — equal to the amount of carbon dioxide
produced by 40,000 cars.
To learn more about the Oregon Bottle Bill, visit
<www.oregon.gov/OLCC/pages/bottle_bill.aspx>.
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NEWLY ELECTED. Earlier this summer, the board of directors of the Regional Arts & Culture
Council announced its board members and officers for the fiscal year that began July 1, 2016, in-
cluding four new members. Two of the newly elected board members include Anita Menon (left), the
founder and artistic director of the Anjali School of Dance, and Anita Yap, the founding partner of the
MultiCultural Collaborative. (Photos courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council)
Yap, is the founding partner of the Milwaukie, Oregon.
MultiCultural
Collaborative,
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Members who are continuing to
partnership of professionals of color serve on the board are Nik Blosser,
providing consulting services for Verlea G. Briggs, Katy A. Brooks,
equity, inclusion, and diversity Robert Bucker, Raymond C. Cheung,
Lew
Frederick,
services
for
nonprofits
and representative
governments. Her team focuses on Debbie Glaze, Osvaldo “Ozzie”
authentic community engagement Gonzalez, Angela Hult, Dana
with culturally specific communities, Ingram, Susheela Jayapal, David R.
urban
design,
equity
policy, Lofland, Jr., Linda McGeady, Brenda
facilitation, strategic planning, and L. Meltebeke, Joanna Priestley, and
organizational development.
Shyla M. Spicer.
The final two first-time board
Board officers include Mike Golub
members are Parker Lee, president of (board chair), Phillip T. Hillaire (vice
the design consultancy Compass52 chair), Eileen L. Day (treasurer), and
and co-author of The Art of Steve Rosenbaum (secretary).
Opportunity, and Mitchell Nieman,
To learn more, visit <www.racc.
assistant to the city manager in org>.
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Earlier this summer, the board of
directors of the Regional Arts &
Culture Council (RACC) announced
its board members and officers for the
fiscal year that began July 1, 2016,
including four new members.
RACC provides grants for artists,
nonprofit organizations, and schools
in Clackamas, Multnomah, and
Washington counties; manages an
internationally acclaimed public art
program; raises money and aware-
ness for the arts through Work for
Art; convenes forums, networking
events, and other community gather-
ings; provides workshops and other
forms of technical assistance for
artists; and oversees a program to
integrate arts and culture into the
standard curriculum in public
schools through The Right Brain
Initiative.
One of the newly elected board
members is Anita Menon, the founder
and artistic director of the Anjali
School of Dance. Menon is recognized
as one of the leading exponents of
Bharatanatyam, a classical dance
form originating in Southern India.
She has also directed theatrical pro-
ductions in Oregon that are Indian
adaptations of classical western
plays by Shakespeare and Agatha
Christie.
Another new board member, Anita
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