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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Monday, August 31, 1992
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Plan increases recycling
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved a new solid waste collection plan for Lawrence Aug. 25 that should increase recycling and decrease landfill dumping.
The plan calls for decreasing garbage collections from twice a week to once a week. Separate collections will pick up tires, old appliances, yard wastes and other recyclables, said Bob Yoos, Lawrence solid waste superintendent. The plan will go into effect Jan. 1.
City of Lawrence recycles
"The program is designed to alert people and make them more aware of conservation and recycling." Yoos said.
Mondays will be the only day that non-recyclables will be collected, while the other collection day will be set aside for yard waste pick-up.
"By targeting those wastes separately, we'll be keeping those things out."
How much is 12.000 tons ?
The city of Lawrence dumps 44,000 tons of municipal solid waste into the N.R. Hamm landfill, located in Jefferson County, every year. Under the new solid waste collection plan, approved by the Lawrence commission to be implemented by county by date, 12,000 tons. The major reductions in landfill dumping will come from:
He said that although some Lawrence residents would regard the decrease in regular pick-ups as a reduction of services, the plan was actually an expansion into different types of services.
- 7,000 tons of yard waste which will be composted
- 4,000 to 5,000 tons of cardboard which will be recycled
- 1,000 tons of newspaper which will be recycled
Commercial businesses, apartment houses and areas served primarily by dumpsters, like the Oread neighbor, may be affected by the new plan, he said.
"It's like any kind of change." Yoos said. "Some people don't welcome it. Obviously, some people are going to have to change their habits."
In areas where the city will not collect recyclables, regular trash will still be picked up twice a week.
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"At the beginning of semesters and the end of semesters when classes are beginning and students are moving, any alley near where a lot of students live tends to get very trashed." he said.
Yoos said the city would compost the estimated 7,000 tons of yard waste and use it in planting areas, city landscaping and landfill recovery.
Residents who have old appliances and tires will be able to call the city for special pickups, Yoo's said.
The plan also calls for the city to help clean up neighborhoods. Yoos estimated that his department would save one neighborhood cleanup a week.
The new plan also will make available more equipment and manpower for city cleanup projects, Yoos said. Some areas that are particularly in need of increased services are those where many students live, he said.
Residents who want to recycle
glass, aluminum and tin will have to use services that are already available. Yoos said.
Another aspect of the new plan is the establishment of a hazardous waste facility where chemicals such as paint cleaners, antifreeze and pesticides can be processed.
Yoo said he had not heard many complaints about the new collection plan since the commission approved it. However, he said he received several phone calls from people who were pleased by the city's decision.
Commissioner Bob Walters said he received four or five letters and a couple of phone calls prior to the Aug. 24 meeting from citizens who opposed the change. He said the main concern of these people was a perceived reduction in services.
"I see it that way as well," he said.
"I'm willing to try it, but I think it should be evaluated very seriously."
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Their four children, ranging in age from 10 to 18, have settled in well, she said. They are quickly becoming involved in activities and enjoying the freedom of small-town life.
The man, Ed Fiehler, bought a house in this north-central Kansas town of 360 sight unseen, then packed up his family and moved here last November.
Rural life appeals to family
"In a small town there usually is some resistance to new people, but they've befriended us, and we've thrown ourselves into everything," Norma Fielher said.
The old Bunker Hotel now is home to the Lebanon Community Thrift Shop. The old opera house is the site of Ed Fiehler's sandblasting, painting and refinishing business
"This is what we've been looking for, 1950s mortality and traditional values," Norma Fielder said of the Smith Coun-
They previously lived in a comfortable suburban home with a swimming pool in San Diego, where Norma Fiehler was a manager and buyer of a dress shop and Ed Fiehler was a starving artist.
He and his wife, Norma, have bought two aging buildings and opened businesses. They say that they could not be
The Fiehlers said that the family had been well accepted by townsfolk.
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They nearly had decided to go to Minnesota when Ed Pfehler saw an advertisement for a four-bedroom house in Minneapolis.
"I called up and said, 'Would you take $6,500?' and he said, 'Yes. Yes.' Ed Fiehler said.
Townpeople since have told him he could have bought the house for much less, but Ed Fiehler thinks it was a good deal. So were the opera house and old hotel, he said.
Ed Fiehler started his painting business and got a job working part-time at the county landfill. That is when the idea formed to open a thrift shop.
"I'm a scrounger extraordinaire," he said, pointing out items he had salvaged from the builderoom: A framed 1902 marriage certificate, a good pair of skates, detective magazines from the 1950s, old appliances, nearly new clothing. Much of it is total garbage, but it is lost once it is buried, Ed Fiehler said.
People threw it away because they had no other outlet, he said. Now they have the thrift store.
The Fiehlers buy little of what is in the store. Some is taken on consignment, but most they simply accept, then price it according to an estimated value.
What really is junk, Norma Fiehler said, is simply given away to whoever else wants it.
Norma Fiehler said that she would be more selective, but Ed Fiehler has a perchant for the odd and unusual items.
The Fiehlers said both of their businesses are doing reasonably well.
"Most people have written off this town, but we had no preconceptions," he said.
"You can do anything you want in a community like this," he said.
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