European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday May 16, 1990wasteful products get trashed by awards Washington apr environmental activists took  Monda it at producers of Smigie use. Throwaway packages for such products As juice laundry detergent and cameras. Be Era  groups and rep. Frank Palm one or. . Said they had Desi rated Quot waste maker awards for coca cola c mad mice Trappu y to Smuz . For packaging minute m non recyclable boxes plastic. Eastman Kodak for e Fig camera and Colgate for fab one shot laundry . Clear. U Ater action. Envy rental action foundation and the 1 s Public interest group said the pro cts Cre wasteful and Cost More. To quote. Asked corporations to take the a ducts off the Market. A b Murra. A spokesman for Colgate palmolive in new York City said the company agreed the packaging for the fab one shot detergent was excessive and he said it was being redesigned. The new package will eliminate the plastic tray and plastic Over wrap incorporate recycled Board and take up less shelf space said Murray. Officials at coca cola Headquarters in Atlanta and Kodak in Rochester. . Did not return phone Calls monday. The groups awards also cited Worthington industries inc. Of Columbus. Ohio for the celebrate birthday balloon kit with a disposable helium tank Oscar Mayer foods corp. Of Madison a is. For lunch Ables single use portions of lunch meat cheese and crackers. And sos juniors steel Wool soap pads sold by Miles inc. Of Chicago. Joe Stegmayer. Vice president of Worthington said the firm s helium tank is recyclable. Quot it s made All of steel. If people do throw it away there Are systems in most communities that pull Metal out. There s no was this should go into any Landfill  Dionn tron. A spokeswoman for Miles at its Elkhart. Ind. Headquarters said the half size soap pad was designed Quot for Consumers who Only use a soap pad once in a  and Don t want to throw out a full size pad that rusts Between uses. Quot if they use a Junior they Only throw away half1 As  tron said. Bang amp. Olufsen of America inc. Was criticized for its moving Micro Cross stylus. The record player stylus which is less than an Inch Long was wrapped in Quot a blatant almost comical example of excessive wasteful  the groups said. It consists of a 5 a Inch plastic Cylinder protected by two pieces of non recyclable plastic foam inside a nearly foot Long cardboard Box. A the Madison Avenue and agencies have taught us that when we see these products we should think convenience.1 Quot Pallone said. Quot our Mission is to teach Consumers that when they see these products they should think waste and destruction of the  a Quot we of course Are not too Happy to get such an award a said bang amp Olufsen president Leif Lundin. Quot we will seriously look into How we can change the  Quot a Telephone Call to Oscar Mayer was not resumed. Epa director oks resettlement of Many Homes near love canal by the new York times Ashington a the director of the environmental Protection Agency decided monday that much c the lose canal neighbourhood in Niagara Falls n y _ is Safe enough from chemical contamination to permit people to return to the Community. The decision but William k. Reilly removes the last Federal Barrier to allowing people to buy Homes abandoned More than a decade ago when a health emergency was declared because of leaks from thousands of Drums of toxic chemicals that had been dumped in a six by Ock Long pit in the neighbourhood. Environmentalists including the former Leader of a lose c Anai citizens group said the decision sets a bad precedent Tor assuring Public safety from abandoned Damps and that they would sue to overturn it. On the basis of a joint state Epa study the state ruled in 198s that 236 abandoned Homes in an area surrounding the dump could be resettled. More than 200 families have signed up for a Chance to buy the Homes state officials said. The houses a which will probably be sold by bid a Are expected to sell for 550, x>0 to 560.000, or 10 to 15 percent below Market value. But environmentalists including Lois Gibbs who led the citizens group that insisted on the evacuation of Many blocks around love Cana asked Reilly to overturn the study. They said it failed to adequately assess the risks from the chemicals in and around the waste site. Reilly decided monday that the study had been sound and provided no basis for overturning the resettlement decision. In a letter sent to Gibbs monday he said he believed the study had met All scientific and Legal requirements. A the resettlement decision can now be  he said in a Telephone interview. Quot there is no undue health risk to buying Homes and raising  love canal was the pit left Over from an abandoned canal project dug in the 1890s by William love who envisioned a Model City downstream. In the 1940s it became a waste dump for Hooker chemical corp. And about 22.000 tons of toxic chemicals were buried there Between 1947 and 1952. The pit was then covered with dirt and Homes and a school were built around the Edge with their backyards atop the old canal bed. In the Early 1970s. Chemicals surfaced in backyards and the schools playing Field and leaked through the cinder lock Walls and basements of the houses filling some of the Homes with fumes. In surveys the state found evidence suggesting that there were High rates of miscarriages and other health problems in the Homes closest to the pit. And ordered them evacuated. Eventually the dump was covered with Clay and the roughly 200 Homes closest to it were demolished. That land is not available for resettlement. But residents farther away led by Gibbs insisted that chemicals had migrated through sewers dried up Creek Beds and ditches into blocks farther from the canal and that their Homes were contaminated too. So far. The state and Federal governments have spent some $275 million studying the site cleaning it up and buying Homes abandoned by residents. Brushing up on prehistory a the replica of a Marine Dinosaur gets a Spring scrub Noth saurus the Brush is one of the Canadian zoo s Ding at the Calgary zoo in Alberta. Giving the fierce Volunteer cleanup specialists Chery l dash. Stateside soldering muffins Force Airliner to turn Back new York apr a us air flight earning 50 people returned to the Airport shortly after takeout because of smoke from com muffins soldering in the Boeing 727 s Kitchen police said. Quot the Pilot of right 1402 bound for Pittsburgh notified air traffic controllers at 7 47 . 18 minutes after Takeoff from Laguardia Airport that there was a tire in the Kitchen said port authority police sgt. Stephen Prospero. The Pilot who was not identified was told to return to Laguardia. Where emergency vehicles awaited the Landing 20 minutes later. As he Quot landed the Pilot told controllers the fire was out. The smoke apparently was caused by com muffins that had been left in the oven said port authority police sgt. Dominick Evangelista. After an emergency Crew member inspected the area where the muffins were the plane taxied to the Gate and passengers left normally. The plane later left for  aids Survey turns up fewer cases than expected Dallas apr results of a government household Survey suggest the number of Dallas county residents infected with the aids virus is lower than health officials had estimated. The random in person Survey last fall which required residents to undergo an aids test showed that 0.4 percent a or about 4,000 county residents a tested positive for the virus. Quot the Survey first requested by president Reagan in 1987. Was to be a blueprint for a possible National Survey of adults carrying the human immunodeficiency Sims or his. Which causes aids. After a Small Survey in Pennsylvania the National centers for disease control asked Dallas county to be the final test for the National Survey.50-50 Chance St. Helens May erupt in 30 years Seattle apr ten years after its massive eruption there is a 50-50 Chance that mount St. Helens will explode its dome again within three decades a University of Washington seismologist says. Steve Malone a geophysics professor on a team monitoring the Pacific Northwest said that mount St. Helens is the most Likely Volcano in the Cascade mountains to erupt in the next 20 to 30 years. Our capabilities for monitoring volcanoes have improved since mount St. Helens erupted Quot he said. Malone said seismic activity which the predication is largely based on. Is a Good barometer of eruptive potential because it indicates the breaking of Rock below the Earth a surface As molten material rises underneath the Volcano. The probability of eruption increases with the frequency and magnitude of the earthquakes he said. The May 18. 1980. Eruption of mount St. Helens killed 57 people devastated a vast area and lofted a huge Ash Cloud that circled the Globe