FREE Household Hazardous Waste CollectionIt’s FREE It’s SafeIt’s Easy!Call to make a disposal appointment:541-682-3111Visit www.lanecounty.org/hazwaste

Better Yet, Save Money with these Simple Greener Cleaner Recipes:

All Purpose Spray:2 cup water2 Tbsp white vinegar1 tsp liquid soap1 tsp borax

Pot and Surface Scrub:sprinkle with baking soda,spray with white vinegar,let bubble and sit,wipe up and rinse well.

Spring 2011

Lane County’s

A guide to reducing and preventing waste in Lane County

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Why Pay Double for Garbage?Are you looking for ways to save money? Well, try looking in your garbage can. You’ll find that most everything in your trash started out as something you purchased at the store. Individually packaged items and disposable convenience products can cost 2 or 3 times more, and then end up adding to the garbage bill. Save Money Twice —Avoid disposable cleaning and serving products, individually packaged items and you will reduce the need to give us money to take the resulting garbage.

• Cover your load when traveling with trash. It’s the LAW(Lane Code 9.035 a and b)

To avoid paying extra fees, make sure your trash is secured in tightly lidded cans or tarped securely to prevent litter.

• Garbage costs money to dispose of. Most recycling does not! Load your vehicle garbage first and recycling last so its easy to drop off recycling first and get the $1 credit slip. But most important, by separating your recycling, you will have less garbage to pay for.

• These Items are NOT allowed in the garbage by state law: TVs, Computers, Appliances, Tires, Auto Batteries, and Motor oil, see the back page for options for these items.

ATTENTION: Beginning July 1, 2011, The BRING building materials collection truck will not be located at our Glenwood transfer station. If you have building materials to recycle, BE SURE TO STOP BY THEIR PLACE BEFORE COMING HERE. It’s right nearby!

Cottage Grove Household Hazardous Waste Round Up

Saturday, June4•8am-2pmSouth Lane County Fire & Rescue 233 Harrison Ave, Cottage Grove

NOTE: residential waste only—businesses must call 541-682-4120 to make arrangements.

Wood Waste is not Garbage at Glenwood, Florence, and Cottage Grove SitesCustomers with visible wood waste are eligible for a fee discount on their whole load if they separate wood and/or yard waste from their regular garbage during unloading. The Glenwood, Cottage Grove, and Florence transfer sites each have a wood and yard waste recovery area. Please speak to the fee collector for more details.

Save even more money on garbage fees by taking wood and yard waste directly to Lane Forest Products or Rexius.

COMPOSTING at HOME can save you MONEY.Let nature turn your food scraps and yard trimmings into great garden soil.

Use an open pile or construct a simple bin for grass and leaves.

Food scraps require rodent proofing with ¼ inch hardware cloth or wire mesh screening.

An Earth Machine from BRING Recycling costs just $55.

Mix trimmings and leaves with food scraps, keep moist and let nature take its course.

Don’t compost meat, bones, fish, dairy products, or grease.

To Learn More:Pick up our basic compost brochure:

•ask for one at your transfer station

•at your city’s City Hall

•at the Lane County building in Downtown Eugene

•or online at www.lanecounty.org

Attend a workshop:Compost Basics: June 4, 2011, 10am-12pm, $10, Call: 541-344-0265 extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/gardens

Go online:eugenerecycles.org

www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=553

extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/

Books at your local library:Backyard Composting, 1992. Harmonious Technologies, Harmonious Press, Ojai, CA, 96 pp.

Let It Rot!, 1975. Stu Campbell, Garden Way Publishing, Pownal, VT, 144 pp.

Rodale Book of Composting, 1992. G. Gershuny, Saint Martin’s Press, New York, NY, 278 pp.

What’s In Our TrashIn 2009 the DEQ conducted a thorough study of what is in our garbage—the study shows that self haul loads sent 14 million lbs. (7 thousand tons) of recyclable materials to the landfill—all of which are free to recycle right here at your transfer station.

non-recoverable

recyclable paperrecyclable wood

compostable food & yard debris

recyclable asphalt roofing

other wood

glass 2%

metal rock, brick & concrete

gypsum wallboard

8%

8%

4%

6% 5% 5%

24%

26%

3%2% cardboard

1% recyclable plastic

to your choice of (check one):O BRING Planet Improvement Center

O Saint Vincent dePaul (in Lane County)

O Goodwill Retail Stores (in Lane County)

Return this coupon to your local transfer station fee taker between August 1st and 31st, 2011 only.

Not valid any other dates. One coupon per customer.

Winners at each transfer station.

ENTER TO WIN A

GIFT CARD20$

Name:

Phone:

Transfer Site:

Plastics Recycling Explained!It’s not about the number any more!The numbering system for plastic packaging began over 20 years ago. Since then, so many new manipulations of the basic 1-7 resins have been invented that the numbers don’t work anymore to tell us if it’s recyclable or not. You see, the process of forming plastic into various shapes changes that plastic permanently. A #1 PET bottle for example is made with a high heat injection molding and that same #1 PET resin can be melted to a lower temperature and pressed into a tray shape. But plastic melts with a memory; the two are forever different and cannot be combined to make another product that we know of.

Please do not blame recyclers. Recyclers do not decide what packaging and products are produced and put on retail store shelves. We cannot collect something if no one is willing to take it from us and turn it into a new product.

At this time, Bottle, Tubs, Jars and Jugs, is the best way to identify if it is recyclable in Lane County standard recycling programs. (please see exceptions in the side bar)

Just three easy steps will help keep the value of plastics high for those items that are recyclable in our area.1. If it’s a bottle, tub, jar or jug you can recycle it at a Lane County

Transfer Site. If it’s NOT one of these shapes, look for where to take these plasticss in the sidebar to the right or toss it in the garbage.

2. Remove and throw away caps, lids, spray pumps, or any other attachments. These items contaminate the recycling.

3. Rinse the container! You don’t need to remove labels.

Beyond the Bin…Where to Take Other

Plastics That Are Recyclable

Do NOT place the following items in

the mixed plastic collections!Plastic buckets, toys, structures, furniture, Rubbermaid type containers—Call International Paper at 541-744-4100.

Baling twine and plastic strapping—Must be clean and dry. International Paper Recycling at 541-744-4100.

Packing peanuts—Must be clean and dry. Accepted for reuse at packaging and mailing stores. Or, call The Peanut Hotline at 800-828-2214

Block foam (Styrofoam)— NO food containers, trays or cups. St Vincent de Paul accepts block foam and peanuts at their Seneca, Division and Thurston stores. Household quantities are no charge at this time. Small fee for business quantities. Call 541-687-5820.

Flower pots and trays—Recyclable at Glenwood Disposal Site only and reusable at BRING Recycling, 541-746-3023. Commercial quantities should call International Paper Recycling at 541-744-4100 or

Agriplas Recycling, 503-390-2381

Media plastics— CDs, DVDs and Clear Jewel Cases only. Cases must be separated from media. Recyclable at Glenwood Disposal Site, NextStep at 541-686-2366, and International Paper at 541-744-4119. Call Agriplas Recycling at 503-390-2381 for commercial quantities only.

Keep an Eye out for Compostable PlasticsPLA and other degradable plastics are a DANGER to current successful recycling systems. These plastics are labeled with a #7 or the code PLA. This new type of plastic may have recycling or composting options when collected in large quantities but are a terrible contaminant to our current recycling systems. Contact Lane County’s Waste Reduction Specialist if you wish to explore these options at 541-682-4339.

The Recycle Symbol and number does NOT indicate that an item

is recyclable in your area.

Accepted Preparation

Aluminum trays, foil, and cans Magnets do not stick to aluminum, rinse

Antifreeze only. Household only. No farm or business may use this collection.

Store in unbreakable container. Original containers are not recyclable

Computer/Electronics Glenwood, Florence, Cottage Grove, Vida, & Veneta only. 7 items or less. No floor standing copiers. No dismantled units.

NO speakers, no reel-to-reel, no packaging, covers, wraps or boxes

Corrugated cardboard (wavy middle layer), and brown paper bags

Break down and flatten all boxes

Glass bottles and jars. Brown, clear & green glass bottles only. No drinking, pyrex, or window glass

Rinse and separate by color. Labels are okay. DO NOT BREAK

Household batteries. All button and rechargeable Alkaline, Ni-Cad, Lithium, Silver Oxide, and Mercury batteries

Alkaline batteries made after 1996, sizes AAA-D okay to toss in garbage

Milk cartons, soup, and juice boxes

Rinse and remove plastic lids

Lead-acid batteries. All types & sizes of auto and other lead-acid batteries

None

Paper— high-grade. Cottage Grove, Glenwood, Florence, & Veneta Only. Writing, computer, & fax paper in white and pastel colors

Don’t need to remove staples, windows, or adhesives

Paper—low grade. Mail, cereal & shoe boxes, paper egg cartons, wrapping paper, & phone books. Writing, computer, and fax paper accepted at sites without high grade

Don’t need to remove staples, windows, or adhesives. No cups, plates, paper towels or used tissues.

Magazines & inserts Remove plastic packaging

Motor oil & oil filters. Household only. No farm or business may use this collection.

Store in unbreakable containers. Original containers are not recyclable

Newspapers and inserts None

Plastic Bottles, Tubs, Jugs, and Jars ONLY Look for shape not the number. No trays, or other shaped containers. No containers 6oz. or less

Rinse and remove lids. Lids are garbage

Plastic bagsPlastic grocery bags, vegetable bags, bread bags, soil bags, mulch bags, pellet bags, 6pk rings. No black bags, no trash bags.

Must be clean and dry; turn inside out and shake. No zip lock bags, no food or dirt contamination, bubble wraps must have air removed

Plastic milk jugs Rinse and remove lids. Lids are garbage

Plastic plant pots & trays. Glenwood only

Remove all dirt

Reusable items. Glenwood only

Acceptable items will be determined by staff

Scrap metal. All metals; steel, brass, copper, & other scrap including appliances (non-cooling units), toasters, water heaters, bed frames, microwaves, lawn mowers.

Items must be over 75% metal. Containers must be visibly punctured from all sides. Drain all fluids

Needles, scalpels, & other sharp instruments

Pack in rigid, red, sealed container (red or orange laundry detergent bottles are okay)

Tin & steel cans Rinse! (flatten if desired). Labels and lids okay

Material Preparation for Recovered Items WITH A FEEMaterials Accepted Preparation Fee

(Subject to change)

Appliances Refrigerators, air conditioners, freezers, & heat pumps. All units that contain Freon. No commercial units.

Remove any food.Do not cut cords or drain Freon.

$15 each

Concrete Grocery cart-sized chunks or smaller are recommended

Recovery at Glenwood. $10 per cubic yard

Mattresses Mattresses & box springs (Glenwood Only)

Clean & dry $9 for single mattress. $15.50 for any-size pair

Propane tanks

(Maximum size, 10 gal.) Propane Only.

None Up to 10 gal-$4. Camping 1/2 gal.—free

Tires Passenger Tires only. Maximum 30 inch diameter (All tires measured at rim)

No commercial quantities (+10) and no commercial purpose tires

less than 17” tire-$2, with rim-$3; 17-24” tire-$6, with rim-$10; 24-30” tire-$20

Wood waste Lumber, shakes, pressboard, pegboard, plywood, lath, pallets, panels, and wood furniture. Nails and screws are okay.

No railroad ties. No hardware larger than your thumb. No foam core, Formica or plastic.

3 cans-3 cu. yd-$13.50Over 3 cu. yd-$7 per yd.Commercial only-$62 per ton

Yard debris Grass, brush, leaves, garden waste, limbs up to 20” dia.

No garbage or plastic bags Same as wood waste

Material Preparation for FREE Recycling Services

All your recycling information needs are at your fingertips up front in the dex™ phone book brown pages, 27-36

check the