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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 4, 1991
Hey, cheapskates. Lawrence recycling doesn't come free
By Stephanie Patrick Kansan staff writer
Lawrence residents who think the city has a free curbside recycling service soon will find notices in their mailboxes telling them otherwise.
Curbside recycling is not a city service in Lawrence. Conservation Resources offers the service for a fee.
The Lawrence sanitation department has asked Conservation Resources, a private curbside recycling company, to notify residents by mail that if they want to use curbside recycling, they must pay for the service.
The notice is an effort by the city and Conservation Resources to stop residents from leaving their recyclables outside for pickup when they have not paid for the service.
Boy Yoos, solid-waste superintendent, said that in the last six months, the city had received an increasing number of complaints from neighbors asking that something be done to solve the problem.
Curbside recycling is not a city service in Lawrence. Conservation Resources offers the service for a fee.
Yoo attribut the increase to the fact that many residents are using Conservation Resources to recycle their waste.
He said students also contribute to the problem because many come from cities that provide recycling services.
"There are one or two instances every two or three weeks," Yoos said. "They see others putting their stuff out to the curb. They think, 'It's curbside recycling so I'll put my stuff out.'"
Clair Donmonsok, co-owner of Conservation Resources, first approached the sanitation department Aug. 19 after he and his driver noticed that many residents were putting recyclables out for pickup but were not on his list of customers.
He agreed that students were part of the problem.
Domonsok said students sign up for the service, but they or their roommates forget to renew the service.
"Students keep piling their stuff thinking it's going to be picked up," he said.
Conservation Resources customers pay $3 a month for the service and payments are made on a quarterly basis. Recyclables are picked up once a week.
Barbara Donomoske, co-owner of the business, said letters would be sent to residents within the next few days.
She said she had asked the company's driver to write down the addresses of homes not on the company's route list.
"So far, we have one address," she said.
Barbara said that after the initial notice, Conservation Resources would call the sanitation department and the city would pick up the recyclables as trash.
Conservation Resources is Lawrence's only curbside recycling service, said Max Slankard, assistant director of public works.
For recycling information, call city recycling at 841-0811 or Conservation Resources at 842-1167.
Jennifer Hortner/KANSAN
Clair Domonoske empties bottles into barrels at Conservation Resources, which picks up Lawrence recyclables for a fee.
Thomas blasts advertisement that backs him
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Conservative groups determined to get a jump on liberal opponents are bankrolling ad campaigns to support Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination. But Thomas himself criticized one of the ads, which blasts the ethics of three liberal senators.
"I deplore such viciousness and condemn such advertising in the strongest terms," Thomas said yesterday in a statement released by staff members for Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo.
The ads are highly critical of Democratic Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Alan Cranston of California and Joseph Biden of Delaware.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater called the personal attacks "reprehenisble," adding that neither he nor his aides had anything to do with the ad.
"The White House disassociates itself from any advertising campaign related to the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas that personally attacks members of the U.S. Senate," Fitzwater said in a statement.
"This is a shot across the bow."
Brent Bozell III said in describing the television ad aired yesterday by Washington-area cable operators on the Cable News Network channel and the Fox Network station in Washington. He said that conservative Victory Committee and another group, Citizens United.
"We wanted to put the liberal leadership on notice," Bozell said. The message is conservatives are ready to play as rough as the liberals who four years ago helped lift the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork
Senate confirmation hearings for Thomas are to begin next week. To date, no anti-Thomas advertisements have appeared.
The ad says that Kennedy was suspended from Harvard for cheating and that he left the scene of a 1969 car accident at Chappaquidick, Mass., where Mary Jo Kopechne died. The ad shows a headline that reads "Ted's Sex Romp" as the narrator adds, "And this sun, Palm Beach," referring to rage charges filed against Kennedy's nephew, William Kennedy Smith.
The ad says Biden was "found guilty of plagiarism during his presidential campaign."
And about Cranston, it says, "Implicated in the Keating Five S&L scandal."
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