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Show -f -Ji. Wit -".I -.:). Saturday, June 22. 1996 The Park Record A-7 Recycling to pre-cycling Litter costs all of us griefs Jit TCf- ITU) ' m .if "1 . ' V 5 ' 5 i' s I' .." W f ' " - 4Sr SCOTT SINER4HK RECORD Recycle Utah Executive Director Mary Morrison shows why large recycling containers won't work as Park City Art Festival recycling containers. by Cornelia deBruin OF THE RECORD STAFF There will be no recycling bins set out for this year's Park City Art Festival, set to get underway August 3. However, Recycle Utah formerly for-merly Park City Recycling Executive Director Mary Morrison said the recent decision does not reflect a lack of interest in the recycling movement. After much soul searching and many hours of number crunching, Morrison decided last week not to set out containers to collect recyclable recy-clable materials. "It's cost prohibitive," she said. Morrison explained that the recycled recy-cled goods brokers - the firms that buy the material Recycle Utah collects and sell it to firms that will reprocess it - will not come up to the Park City Art Festival for the same reason she cited. "There are economic barriers barri-ers for them too," Morrison said. She explained Recycle Utah does not own any small recycling bins that it could set out for festival festi-val attendees to use. Neither, Morrison said, do her brokers. "All they have are the great big bins we use at our recycling site," she said. "We cant set those up along Main Street." Morrison said additionally, only two items used by vendors at the art festival can be recycled. Everything else that people would throw in the trash is useless to any recycling effort because of health laws. The two usable items are plastic cups and plastic carbonated carbonat-ed beverage bottles. The plates are unusable because they are plastic-coated, according to Morrison, and the paper napkins must legally remain garbage. "Once they touch your lips, they're contaminated," Morrison said. "It gets pretty complicated." To keep the importance of recycling in the foreground, Morrison said her organization is shifting its focus this year. Instead of educating people about the importance of recycling, Recycle Utah plans to stress the perhaps-even-greater importance of "pre-cycling." "pre-cycling." "There are three arrows in the recycling emblem," Morrison said. "They stand for recycle, reuse, re-use, and renew." Each of the arrows, Morrison said, is equally important. She said people need to understand the concept of stopping stop-ping the problem of excess waste and dwindling resources before it starts. That, she said, is pre-cycling pre-cycling in a nutshell. "Recycling is really a manufacturing manufac-turing issue," Morrison said. She explained consumers need to buy products that contain some recycled recy-cled content to keep the manufacturing manufac-turing part of recycling alive and well. To get her point across to festival festi-val organizers, Morrison last week submitted a partial 'spec' list to Kimball Art Center Director Gary Sanders to put into the packet each festival exhibitor uses. "He can say to them, 'you have to buy napkins that have at least a 10 percent recycled fiber content,'" Morrison explained. However, she said the same health regulations that forbid the recycling recy-cling of paper napkins also specify plates and utensils cannot be made with post-consumer plastic. "They use that to make things like new bottles or eco-vests," Morrison said. At the last pre-festival meeting, meet-ing, Morrison told planners why she was suggesting the specifications. specifica-tions. "They knew all about post-consumer post-consumer content," Morrison said. One battle she may have to fight is the old saw that using partially par-tially recycled merchandise costs more than purchasing "virgin" materials. However, Morrison Please see Pre-cycling, A-8 t w 3b Hrdkdl Akt Carre & i 1c 3 Vdk TLecond V Tank Ciry businesses, neacb The appnox-iware appnox-iware 90,000 Akt Festival arrendees by advemsing in rbe official pKogmo). The fesnval is rbe most economically significam wo-day evenr in Tank Cny, so don'r wiss rbe oppunmniry to make Tbe summit op '96 youn besT. Vex atomismq mpomnwn, call 649-901 Aikailms:uLy 9 time and money by Cornelia deBruin OF THE RECORD STAFF Garbage is costing a lot of money at three popular recreation sites in and near Summit County. Although the litter problems at Rockport, Jordanelle and Deer Creek Reservoirs are small in comparison to an incident that happened when fishing season opened at the Jordanelle site last year, park managers say they are constant, annoying and expensive. The Jordanelle garbage problem prob-lem - tons of the smelly stuff -occurred last year in conjunction with the grand opening of fishing season at the brand-new recreation recre-ation site. "We had a quarter-million people visit in 30 days," explained Jordanelle State Park Manager Steve Carpenter. "They were almost all fishers, and they were lined up almost shoulder to shoulder shoul-der along the beaches." Carpenter, while being pretty certain he will never again be so inundated, notes that he is busier this year than last. "We are having more beach use and more camping this year," he said. Carpenter explained that he is seeing a different dif-ferent mix of clientele this year than last. Some of that clientele is the "blankets and music crowd" -people who come for the day to swim and work on their tans. Compared to last year, Carpenter said the "shoreline looks fairly clean." "It's not a hang-out yet," he noted. Overnight use is a different story, though. Carpenter said he has already had to turn campers away from the 60-unit campsite." He is now recommending that people phone ahead for reservations. reserva-tions. A recent survey of 2,400 campers indicated the bulk, 61 percent, were from Salt Lake County. Weber, Davis and Utah counties tied for second place; and Summit County came in dead last - at 4 percent. "If we surveyed the day-use clients, we'd get different, but similar figures," Carpenter said. He, like the park managers at mm Rockport and Deer Creek Reservoirs, indicated that the garbage pick-up details remain constantly busy through the week cleaning up and chasing down contained and blowing litter. Thinking ahead, Carpenter has been in touch with Mary Morrison of Recycle Utah, to investigate the cost and benefits of setting up recycling containers at the park. "They get a lot of aluminum out there," Morrison said. "We spend a lot of time cleaning clean-ing up after people," said Steve Hewson, who manages Rockport Reservoir. "It takes all week to pick up after the weekend." i. Hewson, who has been a park manager for 15 years, said littering has always been a problem he has had to fight. "People dont take responsibility for the things they bring in," he said. Most of what he and his crews spend their time picking up are the cans and bottles bot-tles campers and tanners bring with them. He is especially confused by campers who ignore the dump- sters he said are not hard to get to," and dump their garbage into their camp's fire pit for the next 'tenant' to take care of. He said two people devote two full days each to cleaning up the campsites. "That's 32 hours a week," he said. Hewson does not point his finger fin-ger at all park visitors. But he said it is hard to keep a good attitude when crews find used diapers on the ground or have to picK up yard waste that has been trucked into Rockport Reservoir for disposal. On the bright side, Hewson is hoping to have a newly renovated Juniper campsite open for the Fourth of July weekend. He, too, has turned campers away this summer from the 70 available sites. The Juniper site, which Hewson said is his most popular camping area, will furnish an additional addi-tional 34 campsites. At Deer Creek Reservoir, Park Manager Paul Dixon echoes Hewson. "Litter is a continuous problem. prob-lem. The "Don't Waste Utah" campaign helped, and we saw Please see Expensive, A-8 Comment soon or lose your chance People concerned about an oil pipeline proposed in Summit County have until Monday, June 24 to voice opinions opin-ions on the matter. Written comment on the 27-mile 27-mile Anschutz Ranch East Pipeline (AREPA) is being taken by: Michael Sieg, district ranger Salt Lake Ranger District 6944 S. 3000 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 The 27-mile pipeline would carry crude oil from Kimball Junction, through East Canyon and Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City, to a refinery in North Salt Lake City. Two public pub-lic hearings have drawn what one ranger described as "a gamut" of comments. Sentencing soon in poisoning case Utah sheep rancher Gerald Bertagnole will be sentenced in federal court July 9 for his guilty plea to a distribution of pesticide charge. Bertagnole entered his plea after he and his attorneys agreed to a plea bargain arrangement that dropped 13 misdemeanor charges for illegal ille-gal pesticide distribution, pesticide pesti-cide misuse and killing eight bald eagles and one golden eagle that ate pesticide-laced meat near East Canyon Reservoir in 1992. New topsoil to cover old lead Outgoing Park City High School Principal Mike Andrews expects truck loads of new topsoil to begin arriving early next week to cover old, lead-contaminated mine tailings tail-ings recently discovered where new playing fields are being excavated. Completion of the job is set for August 20. f Please call our daddy soon, so we can stop making these silly ads! 1 : 1 v Call today for an appointment: 6494343 Dr. Ron The Patient Dentist Ronald X Cohn, D.M.D. 1 600 Snow Creek Drive Next to Dan's PARK CITY wjsr a v - . - -fc - 1 1 1 mm IIM tmmmmi IMIMIBHIHIIMIBM if T Strving Summit County met 1880 PaikRecoixi PARK CITY, UTAH The Dentistry lift liEftol&iBnHtBfflSlofch l;6lBlli&ta) V |
