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Show )nr Page T 6 wyiKpw Thursday, August 22, 1996 Sanpete County Fair Special Edition Messenger-Enterpris- e member op Communities must work together to initiate recycling in Sanpete Editorial Feature by Tricia Call of Recycle is the the 90s. Our children are taught to conserve and recycle in their classes. Curb-sid- e recycling program implementation is a goal set viding the machine to be in the per products. Then the monetary education came. I borrowed my father-in-law- s pickup when a client said that he w as going to throw away a w hole batch of packaging cards because he was changing his newsprint production industry. Other recycling businesses who use newsprint cannot have anything but newsprint; whereas a newsprint manufacturer needs to mix in other kinds of paper to give the recycled newsprint the body companys marketing designs. and durability that new newsGas cost about $40.00 round trip by-wo- rd forth by Miss Manti. City council meetings all over Sanpete have discussed the implementation of rccy cling programs. The challenge is knowing what is involved and what the costs of such programs include. I gained an education in the recycling business in 99 as a member of the Springville Chamber of Commerce. The business I had helped my husband to start was prospering and we looked for the best wav to sere the community of Springville. Since our business went through a lot of paper, it was a logical choice when we were approached by the director of the chamber to head up a com- print has. I toured a packaging company once and asked them if they used from Manti to Salt Lake, with a stop in Provo to load these boxes up. Blister cards" contain a paper content that is valued more than most other paper products. There was so much of it, we had trouble getting it all on the truck. So I w'as expecting to be able to make back at least the cost of transporting the cards up to the collection site. Imagine my astonishment when a truck load of high priced material brought in a grand total of $23.00! It didnt even cover the shipping costs. I asked lots of questions at that point. What would it take to get a recycling program to break even? Research results came up with the following answers: There has to be enough raw material in an area to warrant a company putting in a collection station in that location. For Sanpete County, this would mean all cities encouraging and supporting one company that was already recycled paper in their products. I learned that each time paper is re- cycled, the fiber becomes more and more flimsy, at one point running out with the waste water. New sprint manufacturers account for 20 of recycling fiber volume being lost this wav. This accounts for mixing in fresh fiber in the recycling process, as well as other kinds of paper. Other systems that must be in place to have a workable recycling program include attracting an industry to the area that can use the recyclable material. The saying goes that one mans trash is another mans gold -- - we have to find someone who sees our landfill as a gold mine. Utah has a challenge in any recy cling program it implements simply because everything must eventually be shipped out of state to be used, whether the material is plastic, aluminum, steel, in business with compacting or paper. Until businesses with the equipment to bring in other equiptechnology and desire to tap this ment. free" resourcetrash, and move to For newsprint recycling, the Utah, any recycling program is paper mills will lease the equipto cost more than it pays. going ment to a willing business. The We also must be purchasing lease equals a break-eve- n point at materials. Look for 40.000 pounds of paper per week. recycled bottles that say Made from ReOne household in Sanpete subcycled Materials or This Prodscribing to two weeklies and one uct Contains 70 Recycled Madaily will accumulate about 14 terials". This drives up the depounds of new sprint. It would take mand which helps businesses pay 50 of the households in Sanpete for the cost of installing equipment using the same amount of paper that will recycle then manufacture products per week to equal that new products, compared to the 40.000 pound obligation to coer the cost of the machine. It would equipment needed to manufacture from new raw material. be important for the business pro- Can Sanpete communities set 1 munity recycling program. I researched recycling, setcollection at strastations ting up in the and the city, tegic spots costsbenefits of trucking matericurb-sid- e als to be recycled to Salt Lake the only location in Utah which has businesses set up to collect and transport the recyclable materials to industries in other states who manufacture products out of recycled waste. My first exposure was to call KSI ., w Inch was publicizing a recycle program in conjunction with one of these materials collection businesses. K.SL. in turn, put me in touch with Reynolds Recycling, now called Utah Recycling, located on 9th West and 26th South in SLC. They instructed me on how to sort the paper types before hr inging them up to the collection station. At that point, I realized that most people without a printing background wouldn't even know half of these different types of paper, let alone be willing to keep six different bins just for pa up a successful curb-sid- e recycling program? believe its possible with successful education about I you UAiutt ut a. cyioceny dt&ie! MEAT PHARMACY DELI BAKERY PRODUCE Store Hours: a.m. to 1 1 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mon.-Sa- 475 South Main Ephraim, Utah t. 7 wishes you a great Sanpete County Fair celebration! 91 st year of service FDIC new industries, and about the costs of recycling compared to the cost row of status quo. The biggest factor of success will be counted in how w ell the city fathers of Gunnison, Mayfield, Axtell, Centerfield and Fayette can work with the city fathers of Mt. Pleasant; the leaders of Ephraim with Fountain Green, and leaders of Manti with Fairview and Moroni. 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