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Recycling is better than another landfill.
Written by an Editor of The Daily Astorian
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Trails End Recovery is a healthy response to an Oregon DEQ directive
“Waste not, want not” is an American proverb of another era. Nineteenth century Americans would no doubt
be appalled at how much their descendants throw away.
The price of landfills is pushing states to create incentives and directives that will divert waste materials
into recycling. In response to the state Department of Environmental Quality’s mandatory goal for counties,
Trails End Recovery is recycling a broad array of materials. Patrick Drake profiles this privately owned
enterprise in last Friday’s edition.
Dean Larson’s firm is recycling everything from timbers to metal. He will shortly be making proposals to city
governments for their yard waste.
Recycling is all around the Columbia-Pacific region. Astoria’s Mill Pond is one big recycling project. The former
site of the Astoria Plywood Mill was redeemed of its pollution, and pilings were recycled before the land was
turned into home sites. Another recycling poster boy is Shorebank Pacific’s offices on the Ilwaco waterfront.
This so-called green building was built with timbers from the Astoria waterfront.
Oregon’s recycling ethic is one of our most progressive assets. It is good news that this impulse to reuse materials
is alive and well in Clatsop and Pacific counties.
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The proceeding story appeared in the Monday, March 8th, 2004 edition of The Daily Astorian of Astoria, OR. Reprinted with permission.
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