I think this is a major point that was missing in the meeting at Creswell last week.  This whole budget shortfall is because of projected needs for more "cells" to dump garbage.  We need to educate public and private sectors on reusing and reducing consumption. Let's make the current site last an extra 30 years!  Recycling is the LAST option.  I see so much waste of materials and energy in the schools and other public buildings that is totally unnecessary.  It's so easy to spend other people's money.
I also go walking in the forest around my home and half of the dumped trash is recycleable.  This is a lack of education.  It's 2016- everyone, especially low income folks, should be reducing, reusing and recycling.
A few years ago the Eugene Weekly had an article about a man who challenged himself to create as little garbage as possible.  At the end of one year, he only contributed one garbage bag of trash.  If he can do that, we ALL can do much better.