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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.
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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
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Ilk as on its final approach to Corpus
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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.
Arbuckle said some individuals
make arrangements with local night
There is an overall in
crease in the number
of persons collecting
aluminum cans, but
that number changes
with the weather and
the season. During
the current holiday
season, more people
are saving cans to buy
presents.
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