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Local groups fill recycling deficit in Lawrence area
By Kevin Kampwirth
kkampwirth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
For a town perceived to be as environmentally aware as Lawrence, it's surprisingly lacking in an area that concerns many environmentalists — recycling.
The City of Lawrence doesn't have a city-mandated recycling program, an absence that has irked the city's environmentally conscious residents for years. Because of this, Lawrence residents who want to recycle need to seek out other options.
Jim Para-Cremer, senior administrator of day services for Community Living Opportunities, said he heard the public outcry.
"It's puzzling," Para-Cremer said. "You look at Lawrence and it seems to be better educated and more environmentally aware than many places, yet we don't have a city-run program."
In response to the clamor for a way to recycle, Para-Cremer, as a member of Community Living Opportunities, has taken steps of his own. CLO provides jobs mentally handicapped people who might not be able to find a job elsewhere.
In the early 1990's, Para-Cremer and CLO began a recycling program in which, for a fee of $15 a month, Lawrence residents interested in recycling could sign up and CLO would come by and pick up their recyclable refuse every week.
Since the program's inception, it has done fairly well.
"We've fluctuated anywhere from 150 to 30 customers at any given time," Para-Cremer said. "Right now we have about 102."
After the recycling is picked up, workers for the CLO bring it to Wal-Mart. 3300 Iowa St., which offers a community recycling program. There, the recycling is sorted and then shipped to a recycling plant in Kansas City, Mo.
Another option for Lawrence residents looking to recycle is Jeff Joseph, who provides a curbside recycling service similar to that of the CLO.
For nearly two years, Joseph has picked up recyclable goods from any Lawrence resident who would like to recycle. He too then brings it to Wal-Mart. His hopes are that if he does all the leg-work, people will be more inclined to recycle.
right it is.
Joseph and Para-Cremer said it was perplexing to them that Lawrence doesn't have a city-run recycling program, but both share the same hunch as to why.
recycle.
"All they have to do is put it out at the curb," he said. "I'll pick it up and take it. It just takes the extra step out of their day of taking it to Wal-Mart."
the Mantle "Money." Joseph said. "A lot of it may be that the city thinks it's too expensive to run."
City employees called for this article referred to the City of Lawrence's Web site, www lawrenceks.org. According to the
Web site, the main benefit of a city-run curbside recycling program would be the convenience it would give residents, but "the overall increase in the recycling rate would be very small and at considerable cost."
Instead of a curbside recycling program, Lawrence has a Solid Waste Division, that reduces selected recyclable materials from the waste stream. With the help of this division, the city's Web site claims to have achieved a 30 percent recycling rate, which is higher than the national average.
The city's Web site also said that a curbside recycling program would add no more than 3.5 percent to the city's recycling rate "because much of what would be picked up curbside is already collected through existing programs."
Despite this, there are many Lawrence residents who would still like to see a curbside program.
"Even if a program will increase recycling by only 3 percent, it's still worth it," said Tom Abell, Denver senior.
But Joseph said Abell and those like him may have to wait a while to see a curbside program in Lawrence.
"The city told me two years ago that they have no intention of starting a curbside service," Joseph said. "Nothing has changed since then."
— Edited by Jonathan Reeder
Bush limits civilian pay raise, blames terrorism, economy
In a letter to congressional leaders. Bush said he was using his authority to change the pay structure in times of "national emergency or serious economic
WASHINGTON — Citing a national emergency that has existed since the 2001 terrorist attacks, President Bush said yesterday he will cut the pay raises that most civilian federal employees were to receive in January.
conditions" to limit raises to 2 percent.
percent Federal employees covered by the government's general schedule pay system were to receive a 2.7 percent across-the-board boost of basic pay and also an increase based on private-sector wages in the areas where they work, called locality pay.
About 1.2 million of the 1.8 million civilian federal work force are under the general schedule system and would be
affected by the change, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
Bush said granting those full raises would cost about $11 billion more than he had proposed in his budget.
Bush set the across-the-board raise at 1.5 percent, with the remaining 0.5 percent for locality pay.
Military personnel aren't affected. Bush has proposed a 4.1 percent raise for them starting in January.
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