European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse On the Rise in . By John Donnelly associated press Rucks and 6arge3 pile 52 million pounds of paper cans plastic and other trash daily onto a Slat cart Island dump Burong the world s biggest Mountain of garbage toward a height rivalling the skyscrapers across the Bay in Manhattan. Much of that could be recycled and new York of Licals have begun considering a plan to do so elsewhere More and More american communities Are already recycling the two hair citric is throw out. They Havo i e Choice. White the new York dump is planned to operate 11 More years. A third of the nation s dumps arc expected to shul within five years lord eng communities to ind new ways to dispose of their garbage. Every american Man. Woman and child generates 3,5 pounds of refuse 3 Day adding 160 million tons to the Nahemi s rash pile each year. That pile holds 42 to Cronl paper 23 percent Lood and Yard i Isle 94 percent Glass. 9.2 percent Metis 6.s percent Ali relics and 9.4 percent other materials attending to the us environmental Protection Agency. Fen slates already require or soon will require residents to separate newspapers Glass jars milk Cartons tin cans or other discarded items Lor recycling rocks or bins. Legi sailors in 33 sales Are by peeled to consider Prana to it Crosse recycling his year. People Don t want incinerators or dumps near them so they Are beginning o Lorce their elected Folicia s to Start rec Claig programs said Cynthia Pobocik Shea a senior researcher at wort Waich ins Vitulo a non profit organic fiction that studies environmental issues recycling is not Newin the United slates. During world War ii. Everybody recycled said Barry commoner director of Pucens College s Center Foi the biology of natural. Systems. People even recycled rubber bands Andrj string but the efforts to conserve Mosley ended with Wiki Wai ii. Now of Ity 10 porch no of America s garbage is recycled compared Loas much As 60 percent by some Cihos in Europe and Japan. Studies say As much As b6 percent of household trash could to recycled and Epa has Sot a goal of recycling 25 pfc tent in Lour years. The process of recycling is simple separating usable product1 irom the trash processing hem so hey can be. Subs Itulid or More expensive materials at Matulac hiring Lorils and returning Thorn 10 the marketplace As parts of now products a has not been so easy to put into of acct. Some recycling trash communities have had trouble finding buyers or discarded newspapers Glass or plastic recycling programs require Startup Funta and perhaps most. Importantly people s habits of throwing rash into Only one can can be difficult la change still. Experts predict recycling will eventually become a part of Trie everyday infrastructure of cities and towns. Today trash trucks dominate waste said Pelcer Grogan director of material recovery for . Beck and associates which has helped dozens of communities Start recycling programs but by he year 2010, we re going to see As Many recycling trucks As dump trucks recycling centers As common As video shops. And recycling introduced in lesson plans in schools across the country among the communities now making it residents to Recycle trash several Are considered International models Hamburg n.y., a Bullaro suburb started a program in 1981 and Nowc arms 98 percent at its 3,350 households participate. Unless to eat their garbage they better separate it or we won t pick it up. Said Ann Kankolenski a Public works department. Employee. She said 34 percent of the trash is recycled and nearly ail Theresa burned. Seattle residents already recycled 24 percenter their garbage before the City started its program last year and the City is aiming or 60 percent in 10 years. Even steel garbage cans Are being recycled. " ,. Wilton n.h., officials say a voluntary six town program in southwestern new Hampshire has 70 percent participation. Started a decade ago the program recycles 42 percent of the garbage brought to a Center Burns 47 percent and buries 11 percent even More is possible. Connla Leach Vermont s recycling director feeds her Lood scraps to Worms. They Eal everything Leach said of the littered Worms that Are covered with pea Moss in a basement Box lined Wilh plastic and newspapers. The Worms digestive system allows them to eat the food quickly and so far h has t attracted cockroaches or mice. I be been very surprised at How Well it works,1, she said. Leach named recycler of the year in 1987 by the National recycling coalition does t Stop there. She recycles All her household waste except or some types of plastics link Mai on High Grade paper and Light bulbs. In a month she throws out email bags. De Steyh. Seattle s administrator of garbage arid recycling contracts also goes to great lengths to Recycle his trash. He lives on an Island in Page sound where a can Recycle Only tin cans. So on his ferry rides to work he. I recyclable items Are removed Roro Iho inlaid waste disposal. Paper products Obj Risca Corr Gaird Ixos. Used computer printouts. Aluminium cans h i�5s poltes other Metal scraps Are sorted it a scrap Yard or plan 3. such Iii Pas inc covers Styron Oarth we a Ducr and agitated unit it is Ixo Ken Zowi so a pump c heft psf a or Madg from the pulp containers Tor bottles and cans Ai a depot in takes newspapers Glass aluminium cans and other items i bring them to my in Laws and they Recycle it with Ihler things Steyh said. Solid waste manage Mon companies also Are expanding into recycling creating More markets Tor recycled materials. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon said Darlane Snow recycling director for the National solid waste management association which represents 2,500 companies that handle halt of the nation s household waste and 95 percent of its Industrial waste. She said the Industry approached recycling warily.1 they had a routine a routine Wilhour a lot of regulations. Then All these slate Laws came she said wha happened was that haulers nationwide were losing business to now. Industry seminars on the topic Are full she said the recycling movement also has put in jeopardy some proposed trash to Energy incinerators. Planned incinerator s have been shelved in los ,"seat1le, Boston Philadelphia and Austin Texas. Incinerators have been Louied As a Way of produce Energy and reduce the amount of garbage but questions persist about the affect on air Quality and on the disposal of Iha byproduct o Ash laced Wilh toxins. In 1983, new proposed what would be the world s largest turns Flo Energy ind Nolion system. The project which still needs Tod Oral and slate permits laces Slit opposition from environmentalists and neighbourhood groups. Environmentalists say he solution to the City s garbage crisis should to aggressive recycling their goals Ore 60" percent in 10 years 90 percent in 2q years. Currently to City recycles less than 1 percent of its trash. However under legislation proposed in february in new York City mandatory recycling would be phased in Over five years the debate has now changed from. What Are to going to do about Iho garbage crisis to How much can we Recycle " said David Antoniotti a stall Rem bet wild the new Yort Public interest research group the Earth is not a dump " Pagan the stars and stripes sunday i
