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Thursday, May 6, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Recycling centers .
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generated each month in the area, but that the Whomper receive only about 30 tons.
Whomper sends its paper to Batliner Paper Stock Co. in Kansas City, Mo. A spokesman for Batliner said the company sorted the paper, put it in balls and shipped
Whomper's profits are spent on bushes and trees planted in the Lawrence area, ecology exhibits and "ECO-tipe" contests in local schools.
"What money we get we try to put back into the community," Wright said. "Basically, it's the city that gives trash. It also creates a creative enough to make money out of it."
ACHIEVEMENT PLACE for Boys, a Lawrence home for boys who have personal difficulties, recently started a paper catalogue to Derenda Tigner, codirector of the home.
The paper collected by the boys, who are 12 to 16, is taken to Whomper. The money received will go towards a vacation for the boys, according to Tiger.
Cottonwood Inc., a home for retarded adults, also collects paper for Whomper, as a work activity program, GeorgeGeorg Stevens, executive secretary, said. Their pickup list of 162 addresses was all they could handle, she said.
The Kanza 4H Club collects paper as a money-making project, according to Beverly Bradley, community leader for the club.
EACH JUNIOR LEADER between 14 and 18 has a pick-up list, she said, and paper can be left in the barn behind the Bradley Veterinary Hospital, 335 E. 23rd.
She said money from the recycling project would probably be used for a trip to Silver Dollar City, Mo., now planned by the club.
The 4H Club sells paper to Diversified Insulation, Inc., Wellsville, which grinds the paper to dust line consistency for use in the S. B. Kresge Co. for use in packing.
M. B. Fredrickson, manager of the Kresge Distribution Center, 2400 Kresge
Writer...
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"From a real town he constructs an imaginary town."
In his novel, Aguilera said he is satirical with his characters but he also writes in a more literal sense.
, write a lot of erotic stories," he said.
When he was young, Aguilera said, he was
suspicious. He said he did not want to
"I read him when I was 14, hiding under my house in a cave I had built just for me. I had arranged a library and I took all my prohibited books down there," he said.
BESIDES HIS one published novel, Aguillea has written three others and a volume of short stories. Magazines in Colombia and other countries have published about 20 of his short stories, many of which have won awards.
Aguilera said he had noticed a major difference between Colombian and American writers. In Colombia, he said, writers form a close clan and compete with each other, but he never pinned any particular group. Instead tried to get along with everyone.
"I try to be friends with everybody but I end up fighting with everybody," he said. In Lawrence, Aguilera said, it is hard to know what they are writing and discussing their writing.
"I awareness is a boring town where if you don't study you don't have anything else to do—everyone studies. I really miss it." The writer is too much academic writing, here.
IF A PERSON is too pressed by the
sunlight, Aguilera said, then he can't
spend his day.
"You have to break your ties with the world to recreate your own word," he said. "I have strange ways of behaving. I suffer from grimmania, both creative and destructive."
He explained that creative insomnia was a loss of sleep he had when he was writing. "I have something inside I have to take out." he said.
He was introduced to Williams by Gustavo Alvarez Gardezabal, another young novelist and his professor at the University of Valle in Cail. The friendship that developed from that meeting led him to Kansas.
HE SAID HE came here to work on a master's degree in Latin American literature because KU's professors were very good.
Although he said he never plans too far ahead, Aguilera intends to return to the club.
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month, depending on how busy they were.
Boy Scout Troop 254 also collected paper
for the mail.
"THE MONEY IS USED for the everyday expenses of the troop." Heine said.
Road, said they used from one to five tons a month, stored on how many hours.
Rod Heine, assistant scout master, said each boy was responsible for collecting paper, which is stored at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1646 Vermont.
Reynolds Aluminum Co., Lennex, collects aluminum from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. every day at the Aluminum Center. Roger Arnold, cashier and assistant to the manager, said. Their next pick-up
Gene Doane Agency 824 Mass.
Reynolds pay 15 cents a pound for all aluminum, including cans, frozen food trays, television trays, fold, siding, gutters, pots and pans, lawn chairs and aluminum screen doors—as long as all steel is removed. Arnold said.
Aluminum accounts for .8 per cent of
the figure. This figure, doesn't include volumen.
Coors, 2171 Oregon, pays 15 cents a pound for a minimum beverage cage. Sue Lane, Mint Grocery, pays 45 cents a pound.
THE CANS ARE sent to the major aluminum companies, where they are mixed with new aluminum, Lane said. Coors brewery, Brewing, Colo., buys the aluminum by the sheet from the companies, Lane said.
Coors also pays one cent for each Coors returnable bottle.
Richard Perkins, assistant professor of systematics and ecology, said the primary reason for recycling glass was to decrease the amount of trash. Because of an abundance of sand, there isn't a problem with it. The other thing he came with other recycled materials, he said.
EPA figures show beer and pop bottles to be 4.2 nef cent of waste weight.
Most places that sell bottles will buy them back
Clothes and footwear make up .9 per cent of trash weight, according to the EPA.
Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm,
collects used clothing for low-income
persons, according to Vivian Johnson,
helper at the center. She said people came
in, took what they needed and left a
donation if they wanted to.
Social Services League, 905 Rhode Island,
also collects used clothing, which is resold
at a low price, Elmerine Rogers, sales
clerk said.
HALF-A-MUCH, 730 Massachusetts, buys used clothing from individual persons, Shery Lemenay, co-owner said, but it gets its items from garage sales and nautions
Repeat Performance, 1422 W. 23rd, is a consignment shop for used clothes in good or excellent condition, Oona Woodhead, owner, said.
George F. Paley, co-owner of Bokonon and the Potion Parlor, both at 819 Vermont, said they buy or trade used clothes. They shop in town, from small shops out of town, he said.
Parley said 40 million tons of plastic is discarded each year.
Love Records and Tapes, 15 W. 9th, buys used records.
HE SAID THEY visually inspected the records and guaranteed that they weren't
Shirley Phillips, employee, said that on someday, they took in 100 to 150.
The Salvation Army recycles a variety of items.
"Since plastic can't be recycled, we ask a cent deposit on our bottles in the Potton Museum."
Jim Comer, manager of Quantrill's Flea Market, 811 New Hampshire, said merchants bought items from individual per-makers. In the past, for more than $1 million in the market
ORGANIC WASTE accounts for 32.8 per
cent of trash waste, and it could be reduced by installing composting, according to figures in Waste-As-Wee.
Richard Perkins, assistant professor of systematics and ecology, said a compost pile was made by putting organics, such as fruits and yard waste, in a container and disposing it into the ground of dirt. He said it should be mixed occasionally and re-covered, with another layer of dirt.
Ross McKinney, professor of environmental engineering, said many environmentalists liked to scare people into believing that the animals era were corrupting the environment.
"Actually, he said, 'we produce no more
sate per person than they did in 1900. The
people didn't do it.'"
"But we're a long ways from being in serious trouble."
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