Thursday, January 23, 1975
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Paper chase unprofitable for reclamation industry
By MARK EKLUND Kansan Staff Reporter
Scrap paper was priced at about $25 per ton in 1973, according to Arly Allen, president of The Whomper Inc. Reclamation centers can now receive only about $4 per ton for old newspapers, Allen said Wednesday.
Recycling projects and reclamation centers were once profitable ventures for student and community groups. But as the ecology issue and the American economy have sagged, so has the demand for recyclable items such as paper and glass.
"The recycling business is directly related to economics," he said. "If there's a demand for a reusable product, it's no problem." It becomes a commodity to be sold."
Alen said that the Whomper, which is the machine used by the local reclamation center, recycles about 18,000 pounds of cans and scrap metal a month. He said the firm received 880 a ton for the metal from The American Can Company in Kansas City, Kan.
The Whomper won't accept paper or glass, he said, because there isn't a market
The Whomper is a non-profit organization
KU follows suggestions on security
Most proposals for improved security at the University of Kansas are being implemented, Mike Thomas, director of Security and Parking, said Wednesday.
W. Thomas Morgan, a security consultant from the University of Illinois, was employed by R. Keith Lawton, director of Facilities Planning and Operations, to help manage the University of Michigan Morgan's report reached Del Shankel, executive vice charger, on Nov. 25.
Recommendations currently being acted upon include increased campus lighting and the availability of phones on campus for emergencies, Shankel said.
He said there had already been more lighting ordered and bids were being taken for it.
A recommendation that the Security and Parking department be divided into two divisions, one for traffic and one for security already been accomplished, Thomas said.
"The phones are one area we decided we are going to work on for sure," Shankel said. "We are looking at a couple of granting agencies for funding."
Morgan's report also recommended that the Security force have its power of arrest increased. Thomas said his officers now had the power of arrest on all university campus.
The report recommended the immediate hire of five additional patrolmen, and the hiring of five more men in six to eight months. Thomas said.
A crime prevention unit recommended in the report would merely involve the redirection of officers within the department. Shankel said.
Shankel said the increase of five patrolmiles could probably be done in next bedding.
He said the reclamation center was located at 730 Delaware behind the Penny Ready-Mix Concrete and Construction Co. near the Kansas River.
with collection barrels set up near Centennial, Cordley, Schwegler and Pinkney elementary schools and Penn House, Allen said.
A salary comparison in the report showed KU was above only Kansas State University in the Big 8 in average pay scale for four years. The average increase in salaries had been recommended.
The business of recycling involves more than economics, Allen said. He said recycling efforts also had social, political and historical significance.
"Historically, the United States has been opposed to recycling," he said. "This is primarily because at the turn of the century there was a huge recycling for culture, hadn't been discovered."
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Recycling is a social issue because it involved environmental welfare, he said. Allen said that politics were related to recycling because the large bottle manufacturing companies have discouraged legal manufacturers and said that American companies would eventually have to initiate recycling programs out of necessity.
"Pure economics will make recycling the wave of the future," he said. "As we run out of materials, they're going to cost more and the public will have to use less."
In the future, the practicality of recycling might also cause the mining of landfill sites containing reusable materials such as glass, metal and paper. Allen said.
The only beer manufacturer in the United States that conducts a reclamation project
said that the primary goal of the company was to campaign was to preserve environment
Steve Haley, the local Coors distributor.
Coors pays 15 cents a pound for crushed
water, and puts a bottle to those who
received him, he said.
The Lawrence-Topea area had a 43 per cent return on Coors cans in 1974, Haley said. He said this involved recycling 489,424 of the all-aluminum containers.
Haley said other beer manufacturers knew it because it was an improbable venture.
"We're losing money on our recycling program, he said," but we're also using 95 per cent less energy by conducting the project rather than manufacturing all new
A local Boy Scout troop is also considering a reclamation project with cans.
The Scoots had received about $30 per for old newsprint from the Kansas Fiberboard Co. Burgs said, but the company no longer recycles scrap paper, he said.
Burgess said his troop would begin reclaiming cans in the near future in order to offset revenues no longer available in paper drives.
E burges, scoutmaster of Lawrence Scout troop 55, said that it was no longer profitable for the Scouts to recycle paper because they seemed to be the only other alternative.
Alen said that many companies no longer recycled paper because of the current recession. He said the economy discouraged the use of paper and needed the use for cardboard boxes.
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Regents' first black member selected as board chairman
Elmer C. Jackson, first black member of the Kansas Board of Regents, was elected chairman of the Regents at a meeting Wednesday.
Jackson, who received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Kansas, had received the support of Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said, "I was very pleased that such a highly qualified man and a member of a minority group was elected to the position."
Jackson will fill the unexpired term of Carl Coulter as chairman until June 30. Coulter has been replaced on the Board by committee of former Gov. Robert Docking.
"I was very well pleased with the confidence my colleagues placed in me, and I must say the recommendation from Gov. Jackson came as a total surprise." Jackson said.
"I am especially interested in the program with regard to the building of the law school at KU, which is of course my alma mater," Jackson said. "We should be
Jackson said he saw no need for new procedures or any changes in programs present under consideration by the Regents. Instead, he said he would continue working for budget items currently being planned.
examining bids for construction of the hall around the first of February."
The other project the Regents would be giving priority to will be the expansion program at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Jackson said these building programs would be the board's two biggest projects in the coming fiscal year.
New Regents members attending their first meeting Wednesday were Walter Hirstenet, Fairway, and former state senator Glee Smith, Larned. Both were appointed by Docking, but received Bennett's support.
Hierstein, 56, is executive vice president of Tension Envelop Corp. of Kansas. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and his law degree from Harvard University. He is a graduate assistant of the Shawnee Mission School District.
Smith, 53, is a Larned attorney who retired from the senate in 1972 after 18 years service. He received both his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Kansas. He was a professor at the University of Kansas Alumni Board and a past president of the KU Law Society.
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