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Participants must raise a minimum of $50 for the privilege of taking a wintry dip in an icy body of water in February and will receive a commemorative long-sleeve t-shirt and a bowl of soup, plus bragging rights!
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Look for the Green Team vehicles in the parking lot to collect your plastic bottles!
3-bin recycling station at the Moshofsky Center including a food composting program!
45 Minutes before game time come by the truck for a free “Duck Stuff” raffle!
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Sanipac was proud to have our food compost truck highlighted at the Compost Day At The Capitol event in Salem, Oregon on Feb 7th. The event was hosted by Oregon Refuse and Recycling Association to encourage Oregon communities and haulers to invest in food composting. Sanipac was proud to represent the great efforts of everyone in Eugene in the state capitol!
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By Sonia Talati
EUGENE, Ore. -- You might see something you haven't seen before at the Lane County Fair this year. The fair partnered with Sanipak to make getting rid of waste, less wasteful.
"You've got your blue for recycling, green for trash. And, they have also just started a new food compost program," said Rachel Bivens, Director of Marketing and Sales.
With lots of food, lots of fun and 55,000 people coming to enjoy the Lane County Fair, it's no surprise Lane County Fair produces tons of trash. Literally. Last year, the fair created 170 tons, 90 percent of that was recycled.
"That includes compost as well as garbage and basic recycling. Every year, we try to make that better and better. This year, we have partnered with Sanipak," Bivens said.
With ten new Sanipak recycling stations strategically placed on fair ground, tossing into the recycling bin is made even easier.
"It's the first year we have set up these recycle stations. Everywhere we have a trash cart, we also have a recycle cart, so people can make the right choice," Aaron Donnelly, Sales Manager, Sanipak.
In fact, the entire fair is pitching in.
"Usually when you go to the fair, people just throw trash on the ground, so I think it's a good way to keep everything clean," said Lauren Moga, fair attendee.
Some fair vendors are only using recyclable only items to serve.
"The vendors recycle a lot of cardboard and food waste from behind the vendor booths," Donnelly said.
So, what does all this mean for Lane County Fair's bottom line? Fewer dollars spent at the dump.
"To put things in the landfill is quite expensive. Not to mention, we know how much is produced here. It's quite a lot of waste with as many people as we see. We feel like it's our obligation to get as much of it reused and recycled as possible," said Bivens.
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Creswell hosts splendid Earth Day observance
By Helen Hollyer
By any measure Creswell's Apr. 22 second annual East Day Celebration was a rousing success.
The weather was sunny and mild, more than 250 students from two elementary and two high schools participated, with high school students helping lead activities for the elementary school students, and a long list of volunteers, organizations and businesses made possible activities that were fun as well as educational.
During the preceding six months, Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council coordinated the event with city of Creswell RARE intern Wes Johnson. In addition to supporting Garden Lake Park work parties leading up to the event, CFWWC worked with third-grade teachers to conduct pre- and post-event evaluations.
During the event, five CFWWC volunteers led nature walks that focused on habitats and food webs at the park, along with hosting the salmon tent with its depiction of salmon life cycles. CFWWC also recruited and supported Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife's macroinvertebrate station.
Anne O'Connell, who helped plan the event, and her Creswell High School students, helped lead activities and Ryan King and his Kennedy High School students assisted in trail building and other activities for students in four third-grade and five fifth-grade Creslane classes and a combined second- and third-grade Creswell Christian School class.
Activities fell into five categories – recycling, stewardship, energy, animals and nature walks – plus other activities and information booths.
After a brief presentation by Sanipac representative PJ Swick, student participated in a relay during which they raced to sort various materials into bins to be either recycled or discarded.
Led by volunteers Titus Tomlinson and Stephanie Scafa, they learned to create sculpture and other artwork from reused materials donated by Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts (M.E.C.C.A.). The art was created without the use of adhesives.
Throughout the day, students stopped by the BRING Mandala station to help build an enormous mandala design using more than 6,000 re-used bottle caps.
Moving from recycling to stewardship activities, students learned about pH from O'Connell and her CHS students and then used a variety of pH indicators to determine the ph of a water sample.
Fifth-grade students were able to participate in trail building exercises.
Other students, accompanied by members of the Creswell Youth Advisory Council and Kennedy High School students and faculty, walked to the far northwest corner of Garden Lake Park where a new trail construction project is nearing completion.
Students were given the opportunity to do simple trail maintenance tasks and help clean up the park with new grabber tools.
In the energy realm, Emerald People's Utility District representatives assisted students in making and decorating windmill pinwheels and demonstrated solar power generation.
Students also learned the concept of velocity by constructing paper boats, and then calculating the velocity of water moving through a drainage stream using the "float method," based on the time in seconds it took for the boats to float 20 feet downstream.
O'Connell and her students led this activity, with CFWWC volunteer Larry Weaver helping.
Inside a giant salmon-shaped tent, CFWWC volunteer Aimee Hart used costumes and salmon life-cycle stages preserved in formaldehyde to demonstrate the "salmon food web."
Oregon Department of Fish & wildlife representatives used a macroinvertebrate station to teach about pond creatures, and local experts on environmental education led students on exploration of Garden Lake Park, touching on such topics as geography, living and non-living things, habitats, native and invasive plant species, fish, birds, insects and other wildlife.
Other activities and information booths included the Sanipac Duck Truck, a display of velomobile and Bug-E alternative vehicles and a Camas Educational Network display.
Of course, the day would not have been complete without cold drinks and refreshments provided by Community Sharing Program and Siuslaw Bank's always-popular snow cones
By any measure Creswell's Apr. 22 second annual East Day Celebration was a rousing success.Great Rotary Duck Race
http://kezi.com/news/local/190070
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- Thursday, September 30, 2010
Sanipac partners with the Great Rotary Duck Race to make it possible for 70,000 ducks to float down the river. …more