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and the years before the first Earth
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pental groups on the Texas A&M
opus are trying to keep those
lues at the forefront of April 22
]rth Day celebrations.
| Organizations on campus will
me together in an Environmental
Irum sponsored by the
Ivironmental Issues Committee
lursday at 6 p.m. in Koldus 144.
per organizations participating
I I the forum are the National
kociation of Environmental
afessionals. Replant and Cool
gies for Recycling.
“We wanted to get the envi-
Jnmental community together
I a forum where they can net-
lork,” said Amy Courtney,
■esident of the Environmental
■sues Committee. “We have
Some small committees, and it
can be difficult to make changes.
■Vith this forum) we can pool
our resources.”
The forum’s main goal is for
icr students to become more
are of environmental groups
on campus, Courtney said.
Some major issues still on the
n Day agenda include threats
to wildlife, increasingly polluted
ater, vanishing forests and cli-
ate change.
President Bush’s Clear Skies
itiative, unveiled in Februrary,
ill help set mandatory caps on
toxic fume emissions from auto-
obiles and plants, lessen the
lealth effects from particles in
the air and deliver earlier reduc
tions than would be achieved
with the current law.
A Planet Earth Celebration is
set for April 20 at Wolf Pen
Creek Amphitheater. One of the
co-sponsors of the celebration is
the Texas A&M Recycling
Center, which handles all recy
cling on the A&M campus.
“At this time we [the Texas
A&M Recycling Center] pro
duce 20 bales from recyclable
Our goal is edu
cation. We want to
get the word out that
being environmen
tally conscious is
very important.
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coordinator
materials a week. Each bale
weighs approximately 1,100
pounds,” said Tom Marshall,
acting supervisor of the
Recycling Center.
Some of the trash picked
up from the campus includes
computer jet cartridges and
laser toner cartridges. The
center is the only program
that accepts white paper for
recycling.
“We will accept and recy
cle anything that tears as long
as it is not contaminated with
food,” Marshall said. “That
includes books, catalogs,
magazines and cardboard.”
The Planet Earth
Celebration is a community
wide public education event
held annually on the
Saturday during Earth Week.
The event is sponsored by
the cities of Bryan and
College Station, Texas A&M
and the Brazos Valley Solid
Waste Management Agency.
It features educational
demonstrations and displays
on many environmental top
ics, including resource con
servation, tree planting and
pollution prevention.
“Some issues we will be dis
cussing are composting, water
and energy conservation and
recycling,” said Samantha
Betten, recycling coordinator for
College Station. “There will be a
lot of information out there.”
The city of College Station
handled approximately 3,600
tons of recyclable materials last
year, Betten said. The recy-
clables included green brush,
steel, clear and opaque plastics,
clear and brown glass bottles, as
well as magazines, newspapers
and car batteries.
The coordinators of the
Planet Earth Celebration want to
help the community learn how
to help the environment.
“Our goal is education,”
Betten said. “We want to get the
word out that being environ
mentally conscious is very
important.”
This is the Planet Earth
Celebration’s seventh year.
Activities will include face
painting, a T-shirt design contest
to determine the 2003 Planet
Earth Celebration T-shirt design
and bird feeder building.
Children will also be decorat
ing bags from H-E-B with envi
ronmental messages that will be
used to sack groceries at the
supermarket after the event.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Star Scientific Inc. removes
light’ from cigarette labels
WASHINGTON (AP) — Star Scientific Inc. is the
first U.S. tobacco company to announce plans to
stop identifying their cigarettes as “light" or
"ultralight,” which critics say mislead smokers
into believing the cigarettes are safer.
The Chester, Va., company sent letters to
other cigarette manufacturers and lawmakers
Wednesday that said it would drop the terms
from its Vegas brand of cigarettes by the end of
September.
Spokesperson Sara Machir said the company
will assess whether to remove the terms from its
other brands — Main Street, Sport and Gsmoke.
Star products account for less than 1 percent of
U.S. cigarette sales, Machir said.
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