HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Here’s a kind of plastic we should ban

Written December 28th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

It’s been three years since Oregon lawmakers banned the use of free plastic shopping bags in order to reduce plastic pollution. Maybe they should have banned another kind of plastic instead.


You can ignore litter only so long

Written June 11th, 2016 by Hasso Hering

Eight or nine years ago, or maybe ten, the publisher of the Democrat-Herald and I were walking from the newspaper office to a meeting downtown when, there on the sidewalk, lay a crumpled-up piece of paper. I stepped over it but Martha Wells stooped down, gingerly picked it up and then, without a word, carried it […]


 
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