BRING Recycling

December 13, 2013 · by · in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f4-186JsuA&sns=em

Script

Title: Julie Daniels, Executive Director of Bring Recycling

Bring is a community Non Profit, we were founded in 1971, actually out of a class at the University of Oregon.

Out of that class a group formed to start recycling in Lane County,

BRING’s Mission today is about helping people understand the stuff they use shapes the planet they share.

There are two ways materials come to us, is one they are delivered by an institution or the general public, people drive through we have a receiving staff we unload their vehicles and then it goes through this process of either being priced right away and being put out if it is standard merchandise if it’s something unusual or something we don’t quite how to handle it, we’ll try to figure out what it is and try to get a value for it and then things go out on the shelf.

We’ve had World War One ordinance, live, that was exploded. We’ve had an enormous, would probably fill up this room laser, industrial laser.  We’ve had a camel saddle. We’ve had, I mean we get some very strange things, So yes we get some really unusual, some very unusual things.

Today we run a variety of different programs; we have a business consultation program called rethink business. We have a community education program, we go out to schools and we teach the basic four R’s, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,  Rethink.

From the youngest ages, the very little kids, you start with where does paper come from? It comes from a tree. You know you start helping them make that connection between where something comes from and the value of it, the impact of it and then you talk about the recycling rather than, we have things we put them in this bin. It’s really giving the kids that bigger picture.

It’s been very fun to be kind of an agent of change and create, you know help be part of creating an organisation, that has you know become, I think you know an essential piece of community infrastructure for the times.

Closing Title: Produced By Liam O’Callaghan