European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Al a a a science a be the world recycled paper from . Floods european port Maruse Simons new York times w her Choyou think All the old %. / american newspapers have gone. Chances Are that they have been w w sent to Europe. Raggedy Bales from the United states have been rolling into european port cities and arc waiting stacked High As Walls to be turned into pulp and Back again into fresh sheets. A this May seem an Apt image from a a greening Quot world a one where paper time and again sparing the landfills and not poisoning the ground with Ink. But americans newspapers and folded cardboard have become a major ordeal for european environmentalists. America s new Laws and recycling programs now effective in More than 20 states have goner ated huge Mounds of wastepaper. But the United states has insufficient Mills to process it. As a result hundreds of tons of american wast a paper have been shipped to Europe in the last year and sold there for a pittance. They have caused a glut in the european Market bringing prices close to Zero and disrupting town collection systems. Quot it s amazing that it s cheaper to haul surplus paper All the Way to Europe rather than storing or burning it in America Quot said Panl Nomen at the a Netherlands a environment ministry. A a it s offered Here practically for free and ruined the Market in All of Western Europe. , the Price has dropped from scents to 1-cent.or less per kilo just this a the paper Avalanche in it. Upset the decades old routine of schoolchildren Church groups and dealers who ran their Low profit but Well oiled networks by Selling their spoils to the Mills at a guaranteed minimum Price. A the boys from the football dub have not been round for six months a said Anna tie Valk in noot Dorp a Village outside Amsterdam where the sports club had Long beefed up its finances by picking up old papers neighbors saved. The Village Council now has a double problem noot Dorp has to lift More paper from its trash and the Council has been asked to subsidize theat Letie club. The world output of paper has grown by Stag Goring amounts with production creasing by a More than 30 percent in a decade. The India try attributes this to the growth of packaging mtg a incs advertising and other services North America the world s largest producer of paper is one of the regions that reuses least of it Only 23 percent is recycled according to the paper Industry compared with 35 percent m Western Europe and almost 50 percent in Japan. The United states also has the biggest w ast paper sur plus much of which it has traditionally sent to Mexico and the far East. But As More americans began bundling their cardboard in the last is months the current United slates surplus a 6 million tons a has become its largest Ever. A it oads of wastepaper have arrived this year in Italy and spam in containers coming Back empty from the United said Nouwen. Industry records show that More than 600.000 tons of cheap american paper have arrived m Europe in year. The shift in Europe s wastepaper balance is Tell strongly in the Netherlands a society w Here Thrift counts. For.50 years the dutch have been collecting and recycling then paper. A most 70 percent of the paper used in newspaper tissues and cardboard Conics . So do half of govern a a mint documents. A. Two years ago As environmental politics heated up and the government wanted to Quot recruit even More recyclers it announced Ian environmental Premium it would pay schools clubs and Charity groups up to 5 cents a kilogram a about 2.2 pounds a extra for the paper they sold to dealers. Town officials liked the scheme because col a. I acting. Slumping or burning garbage Cost More than twice that amount. About 75 towns in the Netherlands joined this system. But because of the new paper glut dealers Are now paying Lille or nothing Lor , As some even demand Money to accept it. The system is collapsing a irate representatives of dutch Tow n councils have appealed to the european Community in Brussels to ban overseas paper shipments. But the a reply was that Only exports of waste can be stopped under International agreements. V a a we were told that wastepaper counts As Compi we raw material Quot said Ingrid stems via. A senior official at the association of municipalities. A that is part of free Trade. So our hands Are tied a at a glance United Arab emirates size 32,000 Square Miles about the size of Maine population 1,455,000 1989 estimate main language arabic official Farsi English hindi and urdu overview the United Arab emirates is a a federation of seven Independent states on the Eastern coast of the arabian Peninsula including a few Small islands. Swamps and Salt marshes line the coast and a desert covers the rest of the land. Arabs have lived in the Region for centuries. Introducing the islamic religion around 750. Europeans began trading in the area around 1500 and the Region eventually came udder control of the British before becoming Independent in 1971. Each state a Abu Dahabi Dubaya Ash shariah Ajman umm a a Alwayn Ras Al Khatmah and a1 fun Zayrah a is ruled by an Emir or Prince who controls internal Andl political affairs. The Emir sit on a Council that oversees National and International matters. Most of the population lives in Urban areas including Abu Dahabi the capital. Its a fact before the 1950s the Region was one of the worlds most underdeveloped but the discovery of Oil brought sudden wealth. The emirates now have one of the worlds highest per capita questions a q a a Why is Glacier ice Blue a a. Glacier ice is not actually Blue but essentially color lev said Mark f. Meier director of the Institute for Arctic and. Alpine a a research at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Like the sky it appears Blue because of the refraction and dispersion of the suns rays lie said. When sunlight strikes the ice the Shorter wavelengths of visible Light the Blue part., of the spectrum Are scattered and reflected to the Eye while the longer Waves Streak off without much scattering. A Why done to Birds fall off their perches when they sleep i a. Birds done to have to work at not falling off their Perch is said Todd Culver an ornithologist with the Cornell Laboratory of ornithology in Ithaca . Tendons on tiie Bottom of their feel called flexor tendons respond to pressure from a Branch or other Perch by Quot causing the toes to wrap around the Perch automatically he said. _ a humans would have to expend Energy to hold on but Birds would have to exert Effort t5 unc Lench Quot he said. A it s the relaxed position. A if you see dead Birds what Are the feet doing the toes Are _ _ clenched 3. 1991 sunday Page
