European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A a a a 4 French customs inspector examines garbage a inc Udog medical Wasle shipped from Germany to a private dump in 1992. France has been called Quot Europe s garbage can Quot because of its willingness to accept others trash. Europe being overwhelmed by garbage by Christopher Burns the associated press he artificial Mountain reeks in the morning Sun growing Ever bigger As. Cranes empty train cats loaded with tons of trash from the area around Marseille France. Reputed to be Europe s biggest waste dump a a covering 210 acres that includes refuse from before world War i it is a Symbol _ of the garbage crisis facing much of the continent. Dumps Are filling fast in Europe and new Sites Are hard to find because of High population density and Quot not. In my backyard Quot resistance. That is forcing countries to step up plans to incinerate or Export trash. Environmentalists in turn Are fighting those plans. They say that incinerators Emit dangerous pollutants that More should be done to limit product _. Packaging and that Europe should Stop exporting its garbage especially toxic a waste. \. A y. A a a Quot in a number of countries there s a real saturation problem Quot said Marius Enthoven the european Union s director general for environment and nuclear safety. I by 2005, landfills Quot will become a secondary or tertiary option. Some countries will go for the incineration solution Quot he said. A ,. Marseille by the end of he decade. Will have to find somewhere else to roil a 60 Rai cars filled with 15 tons each of garbage daily said Jean St. Marlin a technical adviser at the ent Ressen dump 30 Miles Northwest of the Mediterranean port. The City plans to build two incinerators within its boundaries but locals Are fighting it fearing harmful emissions from the burning Marseille s recycling program targets Metal paper Wood Glass tires batteries and used Oil and Quot people Are asking for it to expand Quot St. Martin said but plastic 25 percent  trash _ arriving at ent Ressen is not recycled. The problem is Cost. Recycling _ already is so successful that the Supply of returned and sorted refuse is outstripping demand. Marseille must pay companies $30 a ton just to cart off paper St. Martin said. Incineration is cheaper than recycling Marseille mayor. Robert Vigouroux said. _. Quot in France we consider the most important thing is to get value out of. _ garbage Quot said Francis Chalot a waste Engineer at France s environment ministry. Quot recycling is not the Best Way  Quot Paris no longer has clumps and instead has three incinerators two of which produce heating for the City a buildings Chalot said. French officials support their Case for. Incineration by pointing to Germany where companies were overwhelmed by recycled trash after instituting a a a a program that allows Consumers to return packaging. 7 Quot when the  pick it up they Don t know what to do with it Quot Chalot said. -. A. The German government has stepped in to help finance recycling. But while the country May look Quot Greener Quot than some of its neighbors it is dumping abroad. France is one of the main destinations the environmental group Greenpeace Calls it Quot Europe s garbage can Quot a for both Legal and illicit trash  customs officials say 30,000 tons of demolition refuse were dumped illegally in Northern Alsace this year. In september officials found an illegal dump near the Eastern town of bar Ler due containing 300 tons of discarded plastic packaging from Germany. A Enthoven the european Union environment director is gradually standardizing regulations on transporting waste Between member . A a a a a a. The of eur also issued a directive in May Banning the Export of no recyclable waste to non european countries he said. But the tougher rules do not take effect until 1998 and exempt existing trash Export agreements. If France is Europe s garbage can Quot Germany is by far the world Champion in the Export of toxic waste Quot said Jan Rispens a researcher for Greenpeace. I he said Germany shipped 1.3 million tons to. Other nations Between 1989 and last March half the world total in Italy Only about 2.5 percent of. Trash is recycled said Enrico Fontana of. The environmental group Lega a. Ambient. A. A a /. Italy lacks a policy on packaging. Which accounts for an estimated 40 percent of household waste. That amounts to .1,100 pounds per person in major italian cities annually according to the italian Magazine Panorama. Short subject measurements Book is collection of oddities by Graham Heathcote the associated press a shrewdness of apes a murder of crows an unkindness of Ravens and a crash of rhinos. A a a a a a. A a. -. A new dictionary lists these Hittle known collective nouns and a variety of other terms. Of measure that most readers probably never knew existed. The Dent dictionary of measurement by publishing consultants Mike Darton and John Clark of London collects thousands of terms for quantification and measurement Quot As far As we know no Book with so Many measurements has appeared before and we Hope its interesting enough to read and not just refer to Quot Darton said in an interview. The 538-Page-Book, which was also recently published in the United states has 3,500 entries. A. A a a it explains that Quot unkindness Quot As the term for a gathering of Ravens arose in the Middle it Ages when the big Black Birds were seen As portents of plague and death. It also reflects the old meaning of Quot unkind Quot As  Quot shrewdness of apes is of unknown origin first used in 1452 As a term for a company of apes. In the phrase Quot murder of crows Quot murder refers to noise As in the old, what about the crash of rhinos they re nervous creates liable to panic and in charging they crash into Trees and scrub. Chemistry math and physics account for most of the entries but literary terms appear too. Quot Grapheme Quot is the smallest unit of written language generally a single letter for a Vowel or consonant sometimes a combination such As Quot the Quot or  the editors turn up some very Odd measures on their Way from Quot a Quot a a prefix used in theoretical electromagnetism a to Quot Zym ometry Quot the measuring of fermentation usually in brewing. For example Quot gown end is the amount of water you can hold by cupping your hands. Darton believes the oldest measurement in the Book is Quot Para Sanges Quot also known As Quot Para Sang Quot and Quot Farsang Quot a linear measure of about four Miles used 4,000 years ago in Babylon. His favorite measure is the a Gry Quot because it was never actually put to use and is very very Small. Equivalent to 120th of an Inch it comes from a greek word fora speck of dirt under a Fingernail. Map a crash of rhinos wednesday january 11,1995 the stars and stripes