Re: The evil wooden pallets

["Cliff Todd" <forester@moscow.com>]

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I also believe the pallet burning is done by a
certain type of recreational user. Environmental ethics, like many other
things our youth should learn is best taught by example. Do you recall our
community's Y2K celebration at the Fairgrounds? Yep, the bonfire was made of
..... pallets.

Cliff

----- Original Message -----
From: david sarff <davesway@hotmail.com>
To: <forester@moscow.com>; <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: The evil wooden pallets


> Wow!......I bet Bill never imagined that there was a special interest
group
> for the ethical behavior of pallet cremation.
> OK...so pallet burning around foot and auto traffic areas is a problem.
> Who should be accountable?
> Certainly sounds like the rouge... Why don't we burn it in the road crowd.
> As far as recycling goes it certainly is one of my pet peaves that the
> producers of products that impact the public domain do not give more
> assistance in the recovery of said articles at the end of their life
> cycles...but pallets?....Sure why not...even candy wrappers ought to
apply.
> Pallet and candy wrapper makers could simply put a core fee on their
> product.Like pop bottles used to be, Oregon's pop cans are and now that I
> think of it John Deere has a pallet recovery program(Their's are stamped
> with ID...so not just any pallets). It costs more for the purchaser but
> gives em a little incentive to turn it in for the recovery fee as well as
a
> place to turn it in to.
> So Cliff.....Thanks for the info.
> And Bill.....funny world ain't it.
>   Dave
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