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Ironically, her father was employed by a paper mill, so Jamie grew up seeing all sides of the impassioned battle between environmentalists and Oregon’s timber industry. In the cross-fire, her father’s paper mill was shuttered, causing her family serious economic hardship. When Southern Oregon University offered Jamie a generous scholarship, she moved to Ashland in 1997.Wanting to put her degree in communications to good purpose, Jamie researched several local companies before deciding that employee-owned Recology had a mission (“to return resources to their best and highest use”) that resonated with her own values. Working her way up from customer service to her present position, Jamie is now responsible for educating residents on how to reduce waste and recycle properly, as well as determining to which companies Recology can profitably sell the resources it has collected from its customers.That is no simple task. Haulers pick up the contents of our curbside bins and bring them to the “transfer” station on North Valley View Road. From there, non-recyclables are sent to a landfill site in Eagle Point, while glass is trucked up to a company in Portland, where it is crushed, melted and repurposed. As of June, certain plastic bags are being sent to Virginia-based, Trex, which will turn them into decking materials (see below). Paper and hard plastics are sold to manufacturers both in this country and abroad. Jamie explains, “the destination just depends on where the highest demand is, or where the best price can be found.” Much of the manufacturing of plastics is located in China and other Asian countries, so container ships returning to their point of origin are filled with our mixed recycling.That said, Jamie encourages consumers to contemplate the meaning of the slogan “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” and emphasize the first two sets of actions. “It is important to remember that the ‘Three Rs’ is a hierarchy. The act of simply tossing something into your mixed recycling cart does not automatically make you a ‘good’ person. You’ve simply out-sourced your problem. If you are truly interested in having an impact, start thinking about ways you can reduce... (steNot: Recycling center again accepting soft plastic for recycling)
Others, like Tim Gleason, then University of Oregon's dean of the School of Journalism and Communications, told E&P, "I think it is quite appropriate." His opinion was shared by then dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Orville Schell, who said, "One has to admire the enterprise of someone willing to do this sort of research." The current online dialogue around the article is almost unanimously positive—minus some grousing that a 16-year-old article is being discussed at all. "This is an outragous stunt," Barton Gellman tweeted today. "I approve." "Many of the deficiencies in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence can be traced to the feeling of powerful people that the government's surveillance powers are unlikely to be turned against them," another tweet by Jameel Jaffer followed. "Today in why we have to save alt weeklies," Carter Sherman also tweeted with a link to the story. (Willamette Week)
They don't want to hear what the board has to say, but they absolutely need to," said Dirk Dunning, a retired Oregon Department of Energy engineer who worked on Hanford issues for more than 20 years.The board has been deeply involved in keeping watch over the development of Hanford's waste-treatment complex, the largest of its kind in the world, on which ground was broken in 2002 on 65 acres of the nuclear reservation. The goal is to transform 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste into glass rods that can be safely put into long-term storage. The process requires a complex engineering effort in part because of the wide range of waste materials stored in 177 underground tanks, more than a third of which have leaked over the years.But safety concerns, including those cited in the latest board report, have plagued the pre-treatment facility for years even as billions of dollars have been budgeted for engineering, labor, equipment and other costs."There are all the same issues and they still haven't been addressed," said Tom Carpenter, executive director of Hanford Challenge, a public interest group that has advocated for whistleblowers, workers and accountability during the cleanup.An Energy Department spokesman at Hanford's Office of River Protection said the board's analysis will be taken into consideration when design work resumes. But it still is unclear when that may happen.The spokesman, Yvonne Levardi, said that when the Energy Department determines that a plant problem has been resolved, it doesn't necessarily mean it is fixed but that enough progress has been made to resume design work.During World War II, Hanford was claimed by the federal government as a secret site for producing plutonium that was used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Nine reactors would eventually operate at Hanford, with the last one shut down in 1987.The pre-treatment plant has long been designated as a key part of the cleanup. It will concentrate and then filter out solid high-level radioactive waste that is some of the most challenging material stored in the tanks.When completed, the pre-treatment plant is expected to contain more than 100 miles of piping and four huge stainless-steel tanks -- each able to hold 375,000 gallons of waste -- that will sit behind steel-laced concrete walls that workers cannot access.The project is being run by Bechtel National, the lead cont... (Arkansas Online)
Pacific Northwest, Michelle Pirzadeh, expressed the federal agency's support for the state, tribes and other partners in a letter Thursday to Oregon environmental regulators.The letter to Richard Whitman, the director of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality, marked the EPA's first formal communication on the issue since the state, city of Portland and tribal partners expressed concern this week that the federal agency was working in private with a hand-picked group of organizations on the cleanup plans for the 10-mile stretch of the river, from roughly the Broadway Bridge to Kelley Point Park.City leaders and state officials said the EPA's draft plan as written could open the door to selective river sampling, which could provide an inaccurate baseline level of contamination, a move they contend was designed to delay the project and benefit a select handful of polluters.Willamette River Superfund cleanup faces delayBut Pirzadeh said Thursday the EPA has not made a final decision on how to proceed with the cleanup and additional testing of the contaminated site. The letter stated that the tribes, DEQ and other long-term federal partners on the project will have until Oct. 24 to respond to the draft plan delivered to those groups on Oct. 6."I believe we do have a mutual goal of moving the process forward expeditiously t... (OregonLive.com)
