European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday july 30,1993community facing recycling troubles by Dave Melancon Wurzburg Bureau Wurzburg Germany residents of . Military housing areas Here Are recycling their trash so enthusiastically that German recyclers can to keep up City and . Officials said this week. Some residents Are putting out the yellow sacks in which they dispose of aluminium cans plastic and other packaging As much As three weeks in Advance of the once a month pickups . Community leaders were told at a 417th base support in meeting wednesday. Those bags Are piling up around dumpsters and Are being mixed with no recyclable trash. They Are an eyesore and health Hazard residents said. But a solution Isnit Likely to appear until october. A it is making us look like the ugly americans a resident capt. Scan of Brien said of the piled up bags. All . Housing area residents in Wurzburg Are required to dispose of the wastes in the yellow sacks under the Community a 2-year-old separating or recycling trash or sort program. A the Community has not been ignoring the problems with the yellow bags a said maj. Spencer Murray commander of the Wurzburg area support team. Community leaders Are studying alternative solutions to the bag problem while preparing for next fiscal years refuse Nauling contracts inc said. A a we re not talking about forever a Murray said a just until the new contracts can be  a new contract for refuse collection should take effect oct. 1, which Marks the Start of the new fiscal year Community officials said. A City spokesman said thursday that the problem Isnit limited to the americans in Wurzburg. The associated press reported this week that germans Are on their Way to heaping up More than 400,000 tons of recyclable trash at landfills throughout Germany. Since recycling became mandatory two years ago germans have been sorting about 80 percent of their trash. Local officials Are complaining that sorted trash has been sitting in dumps with no where to go the a report said. A we have the same problem because the trash is taken Only once every four weeks. The bags Are piling up on the Street a said Klaus Walther Wal Ryburg City spokesman. The City a sanitation department proposed collections every two weeks Walther said but the recycling company can to increase its volume. A we Are storing and storing. Soon every place will be filled a Walther said. Some Short term solutions were suggested at the town Hall meeting by Wurzburg Community a sort coordinator Heidi Melander. A stockpiling yellow bags in quarters on balconies or in basement storage areas. This should not attract vermin. A crushing such items As milk and water containers to make More room in the sacks. A possibly placing trash containers around some buildings to hold some bags. However the containers could hold Only about 15 bags. Wurzburg City residents can also drop off their excess bags at the City s bulk trash site located on the outskirts of town Melander said. Murray asked building coordinators and other members of the Community to help Quot keep the situation contained for the next two months.�?�. To assist building leaders a new Community policy for the sort program will contain provisions Tor evictions from Quarter and other penalties she said. The sort enforcement policy is due oct 1. Quot no one has been More upset about this As i have a Murray said. Quot we Are asking you to help us with Theu situation and Deal with your own trash for the next two  a a a City of Wurzburg honoured the american Community Tor the sort program. Turks release . Airman held in crash that killed 2 a i a a 4 tiptoe through the water Ream Angie Allphin right of Columbia mo., River As they leave a friends House and Mary Korte of Glasgow  both wednesday in Rocheport to. The 27, walk across a sandbag levee that has Wpm to bad been helping Rocheport rest been overrun by the swollen Missouri dents build levees to Stem the flooding. In Ciurlik a turkeys amps a senior airman from the 39th communications so at in Ciurlik a was recently turned Over to . Authorities by turkish police after being held for 10 Days in connection with a fatal Auto Accident july 12. The head on collision Between a . Military pickup truck and a turkish National police car left two turkish police officers dead and two others hospitalized. A second airman received minor cuts and bruises and was returned immediately to the air base said airman 1st class William Sroufe of the in Ciurlik Public affairs office. The americans names Are being withheld pending the results of an investigation. The two americans were on their Way to the 739th munitions support so in muted about 160 Miles from in Ciurlik to perform Telephone maintenance. The Accident occurred about 11 a.m., approximately 20 Miles North of Asaray Southeast of Ankara Sroufe said. The senior airman who was driving the pickup was jailed by turkish National police in Asaray. The Driver was released july 22 when turkish police turned the matter Over to . Military authorities at in Ciurlik for investigation. No charges have been filed by either turkish or american officials. Sroufe said turkish authorities have not released any additional information on the status of the two people who were  hoax admitted Milwaukee a a woman pleaded guilty thursday to falsely reporting a syringe in a Pepsi can during a nationwide product tampering scare. Katherine Wuerl 30, made her plea in . District court As part of an agreement with prosecutors who recommended no More than 12 months in prison. The maximum sentence is five years in prison and a $250,000 , bartenders found at High risk from smoke Chicago apr waiters and bartenders generally breathe a lot of secondhand tobacco smoke and their risk of getting lung cancer is 50 percent higher than the risk for other people a researcher says. A everyone talks about the risks of secondhand smoke for restaurant customers a said the researcher. Or. Michael Siegel. A until 1 started doing this work very few people talked about the effects on restaurant  restaurant workers breathe smoke for Long Peri-6ds, and for them Quot its really a life and death Issue a he said wednesday in a Telephone interview from at Lanta where he is working with the office on smoking and health of the Federal centers for disease control and prevention. A during his residency in preventive Medicine at the University of California at Berkeley Siegel Analysed about 40 studies on indoor air Quality and six studies on lung cancer rates. He concluded that smoking in bars and restaurants should be prohibited. A his report was published in wednesdays Issue of the journal of the american medical association. Studies of indoor air published from 1980 through 1992 showed that the Levels of tobacco smoke in restaurants were 1.6 to 2 times As High As in offices and  times As High As that in Homes with at least one smoker Siegel wrote. Smoke Levels in bars were 3.9 to 6.1 times As High As in offices and 4.4 to 4.5 times As High As in residences he reported. The studies he reviewed sampled air from More than 1,000 offices 400 restaurants and 600 Homes he said. To look at lung cancer rates for waiters Siegel Analysed studies that identified subjects by occupation and controlled statistically for smoking habits so that different rates of smoking in different occupations would not account for the different cancer rates. Evidence indicated that restaurant waiters had about 1.3 times As great a likelihood of developing lung cancer As the general Public. The lung cancer studies were published from 1977 through 1993, and each typically involved several Hundred to several thousand subjects Siegel said. However Siegel added Quot the studies that 1 reviewed did not measure the number of years of exposure.�?�. He said the elevated risk was an average figure. If someone worked in a Smoky restaurant for Only a summer the risk might be less working for 20 or 30 years might make it More he said. Thomas Lauria a spokesman for the tobacco Institute an Industry group based in Washington said siegels report was faulty because it was based on selective information and on sometimes out of Date findings. The report represents siegels interpretation Lauria said. A not one of the studies Siegel reviews measures restaurant worker exposure to environmental tobacco smoke a Lauria said thursday. A this is not the publication of original research or any actual new  Siegel said the results were a very consistent with the environmental Protection Agency a estimate that people who live with a smoker have about a 30 percent higher risk a lung cancer. It is known that the More secondhand smoke a person breathes the higher the risk he said. Ordinances against smoking in restaurants have been passed in at least 68 cities and counties nationwide according to americans for nonsmokers rights a nonprofit education and advocacy group based in Berkeley. Such a ban was supposed to take effect this week in los Angeles but it has been put on hold until a random Sample of. 96,000 signatures can be validated on a petition opposing it. The los Angeles Law would allow smoking in bars nightclubs and outdoor dining areas. Opponents of the smoking ban submitted the petition signatures to the City clerks office in an Effort to Force a Public vote on the ban. At least 58,000 signatures of registered los Angeles voters Are needed to Force a referendum. S