CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 15, 1984
Page 8
Recyclable goods earn big money for savers
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
Newspapers are paying off in a big way for the Lawrence Boys Club.
By collecting old newspapers and selling them to recycling centers in Lawrence and awardwinner, the club made it into three years, said director Garev Larson.
The Boys Club used the money to pay off 10 percent of the mortgage on its clubhouse, 500 E. 23rd St. Other funds to build a building came from private donors.
Any money the club collects from now on will be saved to pay for a new gymnasium the club is planning to build.
Larson said consistency was the main factor in the club's successful drive because the club ran regular games and had four collection spots in the area.
However, newspaper is not the only recyclable material that is earning money for individuals and groups in the Lawrence area, said Chiquita Cornelius, executive director for the Kansas Industry Recycling Program Inc. in Topeka.
Cornelius said the Boys Club was only one of many groups successfully raising money through recycling. She said that the market for recyclable materials, including glass and aluminum, was expanding and that more people were now returning materials for recycling.
In 1981, only 25 percent of the aluminum cans in the United States were recycled, she said. This year more than 75 percent was disposed nationally to more than 50 percent.
Kansas beverage recycling program centers are researching the newspaper
market so they can expand beyond glass and aluminum, she said, even though most members are not recycling paper now.
She said that plastic now was not a viable recyclable item but that it might be in the future. In Nebraska, recyclers are reusing oil.
During January, Lapeca Inc., 2711 Oregon St., received 14,144 pounds of glass and 19,031 pounds of aluminum and 19,031 individuals and groups in Lawrence.
Lapeka pays one half cent each for green, brown and clear glass beverage or food containers. Returned Coors bottles, regardless of size, bring a pennie apple. Lapeka pays 30 cents a pound for aluminum.
The company, which is a member of Kansas BIRP, pays more than $700 a month for glass and about $6,000 for aluminum to Lawrence residents.
The recycling market is gaining strength in Lawrence and Topeka, Cornelius said, because of a contract with Liberty Glass Company in Sapelle, where the glass provides market for all material produced by Kansas BIRP centers.
Duane Braden, Lapeka warehouse supervisor, said that although most of the returned glass and aluminum came from individuals, schools, day care centers and clubs also raised money by collecting materials in Lawrence.
In 1981, Lapea opened the first glass recycling center in the state in Topeka. The Topeka company surpassed the eight-inch-pound mark for aluminum last fall.
Kansas BIIRP was established in Topeka in May 1861. In November, Lapea began its affiliation with the University recycling program, Cornell said.
Orley Taylor, professor of entomology, examines honeybees on West Campus. Taylor told NBC last week that African honeybees could reach the southern United States by 1988.
Larry Funk/KANSAN
KU bee specialist to appear on NBC
By STEPHANIE HEARN STaff Reporter
A KU professor of entomology will soon appear on national television to describe the chaos that will result when killer bees migrating north from Brazil arrive in the United States.
When the killer bees arrive in 1988, they will destroy the population of honeybees, which the United States depends on for honey production and crop pollination, Orley Taylor, the professor, told NBC News last week.
NBC came to the University of Kansas to interview Taylor for its documentary news program "First Camera" because Taylor is an internationally known honeybee expert.
Taylor was recognized for his expertise when he won an award for a documentary on African honeybees that he made in 1978.
The first swarms of the African killer bees escaped from a bee keeper in Brazil in 1957.
Because the killer bees are dominant, Taylor said, beekeepers will suffer. Killer bees sting a great deal more than European bees and are too unmanageable to depend on for honey production.
In an effort to prevent the loss of the United States' European bee population, Taylor has been collecting data on the biology of the bees in order to find a way to counteract the mating advantages of African bees.
Taylor said that unless a solution was discovered before the African
bees arrived in the United States, the African bees would mate with the U.S. population of European bees, bringing the European bees out of existence.
European bees mate with African queen bees, but the African bees do not mate with European queen bees. European bees more African bees, Taylor said.
Massive stings from the escaped bees killed about 40 people in Venezuela four years ago.
If the mating habits of the African bees were modified, he said, the bees could be used for honey production.
Aside from the possibility of harm to humans, Taylor said, the loss of European bees will affect American agriculture.
African bees do not provide the pollination that many crops, including some fruits, nuts and vegetables, need to survive.
The bee-producing industry in the South will also suffer, he said.
Also, Taylor said, no one in the northern United States would want to buy bees from the South after the bees had infested the population.
Taylor, who majored in zoology at the University of Minnesota, said he had been fascinated with bees since he was a kid and has been teaching at KU for 15 years.
Taylor estimated that the African bees, which are advancing northward at a rate of 30 miles a month, were now entering Nicaragua.
"There would be lobbying efforts to quarantine areas with African bees," he said.
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