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--time, gas and the hassle, Tuchscherer says.
// BRENNA LONG
The eight recycling bins at the Olive House, a student housing cooperative, sit on the curb every Wednesday morning and are magically empty and neatly stacked by the time Sam Greenberg returns from class in the afternoon. "It wouldn't be unreasonable for us to take it to the recycling center, but this is just easier," Greenberg, a senior from Highland Park, III., says.
The convenience of curbside recycling keeps the eight housemates paying their monthly bill to Tree Hugger Recycling to have their recyclables hauled away.
Every day the average American generates 4.3 pounds of trash, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Collectively, that's almost one ton, or the weight of a Volkswagen Beetle. That's a lot of trash, and only 30 percent of it gets recycled.
Curbside recycling is a portion of that 30 percent and offers an easy and beneficial option for people concerned about the environment. "People have become more conscious about recycling," Jim Tuchscherer, owner of Home
Recycling Services, says.
When recycling companies pick up the recycling in Lawrence, they not only help the residents, but also the environment. The fewer trips made throughout the city saves gas and takes less of a toll on the roads, and saves you
YOU PUT IT OUT - THEY PICK IT UP. Six curbside recycling companies in Lawrence.
Community Living Opportunities
Community Living Opportunities Weekly pick up $15 per month 785-840-9278
**Deffenbaugh Industries**
Weekly pick up
$4.95 per month
800-631-3301
Jeff's Curbside Recycling Weekly pick up $15 per month 785-841-1284
Besides the general benefits, the companies in town have better vehicles for transporting large amounts of recycled materials. Jeff Joseph, owner of Jeff's Curbside Recycling, transformed a small truck into a recyclecarrying flatbed. As he drives around Lawrence, he empties his customers' recycling into the 36 bins enclosed on the flatbed.
Home Recycling Service
Monthly pick up
$7 per month
785-979-6633
**Sunflower Curbside Recycling**
Monthly pick up
$18 per month
785-550-8610
they generally take it to the Wal-Mart Community Recycling Center, 3300 Iowa St., or 12th and Haskell Bargain Center, 1146 Haskell Ave. The Wal-Mart center has its recyclables picked up by Deffenbaugh Industries out of Kansas City, Kan., says Tom Coffman, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Deffenbaugh Industries.
Tree Hugger Recycling
Weekly pick up
$15 per month
785-550-6267
Even though recycling services in Lawrence have been established for a while, curbside pick up is an evolving and flexible service. Just 30 years ago only one curbside recycling company existed in the United States, according to the EPA. This means a lot of the companies are fairly new and are figuring out what services work best.
Most of the services pick up the recycling once a week, but the services can change depending on your needs or how often you want to put out your recycling, says Joseph. Or you just put out the recycling whenever you have it. Depending on the service, they might give you a bin, or as with Joseph's company, as long as it is dry and by the curb, he picks it up.
After the companies pick up your recycling.
The facility processes 10,000 tons of recycled materials a month. Along with the processing, Deffenbaugh Industries offers recycling services as well. Last March, the company started curbside recycling in Lawrence. Since its services spread to Lawrence, it has grown to serve 3,729 residences and collects 21 tons of recycling a week.
In total, six different curbside recycling companies drive through Lawrence picking up recyclables. So those plastic bottles and stacks of old newspapers can make their way to the curb, but in a recycling bin, not a trash can, helping the environment with each load.
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HEALTH
Watkins prepared to treat flu symptoms
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, has a message for students who are feeling sick with symptoms of the flu: she and her staff are there to help, but they aren't handing out doctor's notes for getting out of class. Denning said such notes were not necessary unless the student missed three days of class.
Megan Hardy, a junior from Manhattan, made an appointment at Watkins to be examined for strep throat. Hardy said the staff provided her with a record of her appointment, which she delivered to her employer the next day.
Student Health Services' policy is that students can request documentation when two conditions have been met. One is that the student was treated at Watkins or has documentation of treatment elsewhere. The second condition is that he or she has been absent from school for three or more consecutive days because of illness or injury.
"They just printed it out," Hardy said. "And everything was fine."
"Sometimes we feel like we have appointments scheduled, not for medical reasons, but for documentation," Denning said.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, chair of the English department, said her department follows the guidelines of the Office of the Provost. She said faculty has been advised against requiring doctor's notes since last year's arrival of the H1N1 virus.
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Barbara Romzek, interim vice provost for academic affairs, sent a memo to university staff advising them to accommodate students missing class because of illness. The memo also said that faculty were not obligated to excuse students from class.
Denning said the flu arrived on campus Feb. 1, far later and less severe than usual.
Denning said students reporting to Watkins with flu symptoms would not necessarily be tested for influenza or be prescribed medication. She said the health center had been distributing relatively little Tamiflu, the preferred prescription drug for influenza.
"What we've seen looks quite mild?" Denning said.
Treatment is available for those requiring it, but the medical staff at Watkins is
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TECHNOLOGY
Software developer creates new apps for regular phones
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
For those students who don't have a smartphone yet, don't worry
- there's an app for that. Some software developers are in the business of making apps for regular cellular phones.
David Valdiviezo, a sophomore from Mission Hills, likes Apple products but still carries a simple cellular phone.
"It's a lot cheaper," he said. "The plans for iPhones are too expensive. They're cool, but it's not worth the money."
Valdiviezo isn't alone. In March 2010, the Nielsen Company showed that up to 79 percent of U.S. consumers weren't using smartphones — phones that run third-party software such as apps and use the most advanced operating systems. Simpler models are known as feature phones. The Nielsen study projected that in 2011 the number of smartphones in use would equal and then surpass that of feature phones.
But that doesn't mean feature phone users don't have access to mobile Internet. App makers are designing their software to operate on all types of phones. Facebook, for example, just released an app free of data charges for feature phones, specifically for overseas markets.
Facebook worked with software developer Snaptu on its latest overseas app. Snaptu offers apps for Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and others that depend on lava software.
Paul Naphtali, a spokesperson for the company, said Snappu apps
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