By Sid Lelken
With Lane County’s ongoing budget challenges, why would increasing our garbage rates become a way to deal with this issue? Last year the Lane County Board of Commissioners, in a 3-2 vote moved forward on a waste processing facility called Clean Lane.
Clean Lane has been described as a $150 million “public-private partnership,” with roughly $100 million in equipment financed by Bulk Handling Systems. But the public carries the financial risk:
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