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^tocal THE BATTALION Page 5 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1980 inlWBi p.tn.at S>nat7:3() Pi | RoUiel eetat7:30f.| UREiDri Siveatal n Govenma ‘ling C, E« :atf ilar vailable Dystmp i. Wifib ' about mist irk.Theftal Hing Christ . at Sbisa SO p.m, ii 7 p.m, in; sor a “Hoi Emission is . in Q-Hnt n 113 Biolop iristmas-I at7:30p. ic class picte ling Chrisli p.m. atSte mi the id their ieai bs nd9:45p.E ecycling of aluminum and paper on rise Collecting and selling recyclables can be a profitable venture for anyone : MANOR EAST MALL 3 : » MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 1 • AND ¥k P.ecscix AlanmunCafe Staff photo by Greg Gammon Recycling boxes like this one are popping up all over the Texas A&M University campus. People use the 25 cents per pound they get for their empties for everything from Christmas presents to department parties. larijuana airplane ands on access road d United Press International ORPUS CHRISTI — A pilot was :ed to land his marijuana-laden n-engine airplane on a highway Cess road Monday and escaped in a issing car. Authorities discovered 434 punds of marijuana in the Piper I Itec-F, which apparently ran out of Ilk as on its final approach to Corpus Iristi International Airport. • I .After touching down on the access II Pf ad to Interstate 37, the plane slam- led into a fence, tearing off part of intemationil ^ left wing, and came to rest cross- , —Somet; .ys in the road, ars livequitf Minutes later the pilot, apparently inner daiiy £ injured, was picked up by a car. dice found a pair of sophisticated iw animal F 1 pe talkies in the plane that the ot may have used to arrange the Agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency took the plane, which was registered to an unspecified Dallas firm, to a hangar for a fingerprint search. By KATHY O’CONNELL Battalion Reporter With the growing shortage of non renewable natural resources, recycl ing waste products such as aluminum cans and newspapers can become a profitable business. Within the Bryan-College Station community, there are businesses and organizations that collect, buy and sell waste products. Bob Lefevre, manager of the Texas A&M University Printing Center said the problem with recycl ing waste paper is that there is not much return on investment. Most recycling companies are only willing to pay between $35-$50 per ton of paper. Lefevre said there are some dis advantages to collecting waste pap er. First is the possibility of a fire hazard and second, whoever picks up the paper is often unreliable, he said. Lastly, he said there is a prob lem that the collected paper often takes up too much space. He said he has been trying to find a company that will pick up the waste paper but that he hasn’t found one yet. “I think it would be a good enter prise for a student organization (to collect paper), but it would have to be done regularly,” he said. Lefevre “I think it would be a good enterprise for a student organization (to collect paper) but it would have to be done regularly. ” suggested such an organization could place receptacles throughout Uni versity buildings to collect Batta lions. He pointed out these contain ers should have a lid of some sort; otherwise the papers could create a litter problem. Lefevre said the printing center sells the metal plates used iri print ing. The plates, he said, are a compo site of various metals but are primari ly made of aluminum. He said they sell an average of 642 pounds appro ximately every three months for 30 cents a pound. He said they also sell the scrap photographic film and photographic paper. He said an Austin recycling company comes through the area ev ery three months to buy the silver deposits. Another waste product the center recycles is spent ink. He said at the beginning of this year, the printing center began giving the ink to the Veterinary Medical school where it is used to mark cattle. He said giving away the ink eliminated their dispos ing problem and put it to good use as well. Michael Ford at the Bryan Eagle said they sell their scrap paper to an independent agent in Houston who sells it to a cellulose manufacturer. Recycling not only means money; it can also mean cleaning up the environment and more jobs, as at Twin City Mission, an orga nization which runs a rehabilitation prog ram for men who have been unemployed for several years. Ford said the amount the Eagle col lects for their paper depends on how much paper they have to sell but that they usually get about $40 per ton. Ford also said recycling paper can be profitable if an organized method of doing it is used. He said the Eagle is making a small profit from selling their paper. They receive an average $200 each month for selling scrap paper. Ford said the Eagle is also consid ering a method to profit from the roll end paper left after printing. He said cutting and packaging the paper could be done “in house” and would help cut the costs of newsprint used by artists and engineers. Art and engineering supply stores, he said, order newsprint from out side companies and this adds to the price of the paper. If it could be pack aged by a local business, then it would save consumers money, Ford said. Recycling not only means money; it can also mean cleaning up the en vironment and more jobs, as at Twin City Mission. TCM is a charitable organization that runs a rehabilitation program for men who have been unemployed for several years. Lloyd Sanderson, TCM interim director, said they employ men to collect cardboard boxes from area furniture and grocery stores and then take it to their paper bailing plant on State Highway 21. He said the basic idea behind the operation is to provide men with full-time em ployment so they can get back into the habit of working. Sanderson said most of the men who come to TCM have been unemployed for awhile. TCM employees receive room and board for their work, Sanderson added. Some stay for a week and others have stayed for as long as three years, he said. Sanderson said they once col lected scrap paper from the Texas A&M Printing Center and the Eagle, but they stopped because they weren’t making a profit. Sanderson said cardboard brings a better price than newsprint because the fiber content is more suitable for making roofing materials. The card board, once bailed, is sent to a Okla homa company which processes it into roofing materials, he said. Sanderson said the company pays $50 per ton for cardboard and only $30 for each ton of scrap paper. The director said it was not profitable to collect and sell newsprint since the cost of renting a boxcar to transport the material to Oklahoma used up all possible profits. A more profitable recycling pro duct is aluminum cans. There are several organizations which do just that in the area, including Coors Dis tributing Co., Pearl Distributing Co. and Bryan Iron & Metal. Sharon Arbuckle of Coors said there is an overall increase in the number of persons collecting alumi num cans but that number changes with the weather and the season. For instance, she said that during the current holiday season, more people are saving cans to buy presents. She said she hasn’t noticed any particular trend in the type of people who collect cans, adding that “a whole spectrum of people collect them.” The Coors center pays 25 cents per pound, she said. 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