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Welcome to Josephine County Master Recyclers 2010
Britta Beckstead, Coordinator
When you sit down, please take a few
minutes to fill out the “Waste Quiz” sitting on the desk. Don’t worry –
these will not be graded!
IntroductionsFind a partner that you don’t know
Introduce yourselves to each another
Provide the following information for your partner
Your name
What you do or something you like to do
Why you are taking the class
Introduce your partner to the group
Syllabus and ExpectationsReadings due the next classAttendance is required at all lecture
sessions and field trips unless you have a VERY important reason
30 service hours over 9 months (Graduation and title of “Master Recycler” awarded in December)
What is waste?
And you thought this was a class about recycling…Most recycling will eventually end up as waste, even though it does help with reducing waste. More on this point in a later class.
Waste is…1. The failure to use something wisely,
properly, fully, or to good effect.
2. Something we have purchased and reduced to a value of zero or less.
3. Actions that don’t create or add value.
4. A sign of inefficiency.
5. Resources that can no longer support life or our current standard of living.
Why should we care?
Waste is connected to almost every major environmental issue…
Climate Change
Water Pollution
Air Pollution
Habitat Loss
Ecosystem Disruption
Toxic substances
Resource DepletionAnd therefore many human issues.
In the U.S. we use…
60,000 plastic
bags every 5 seconds
200 billion plastic
bottles in a year
77 billion tons of packaging waste per
year
Where does it all go?
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
•Roughly the size of Texas
•The concentration of plastics is 7 times the concentration of phytoplankton
Exported to developing countriesA Chinese child sits on e-waste, containing harmful chemicals such as mercury and lead, likely exported from the United States.
10 acres cells fill up quickly and cost millions of dollars to construct and operate. We won’t have this much open space forever.
Buried in a landfill
Or it can end up in your own backyard…Waste and your present health and well-being
right here in Josephine County
Brad Carlson Environmental Public Health Specialist from the
Josephine County Department of Environmental Health
Member of the Solid Waste Agency
How else do we deal with waste here in Josephine County?What is the Solid Waste Agency?What projects are going on currently and for
the next year?
Terry HaugenPublic Works Director from the City of Grants
PassMember of the Solid Waste Agency
OR Department of Environmental Quality
Local governments (Josephine County, the City of Grants Pass,
and the Solid Waste Agency)
Franchised Waste HaulersAllied Waste Services
(Picks up on one side of the river)
Southern Oregon Sanitation (Picks up on the
other side of the river)
Reports to DEQ on progress towards recovery rate goal, use Environmental Program Fee to pay for programs to help meet that goal
Pay franchise fees to local governments, create educational and promotional materials to help with progress towards recovery rate goal
Sets recovery rate goal (total recovered/total generated) for wasteshed and state
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