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Show v 'j'vr -- p 'i f t t 8 SALT FLAT NEWS, SPRING - ; SUMMER, 1973 S awra RECVOIK z$0(55( Reprinted from COUNTY Great Salt lake - Congressional Record AmST nOCIIDINGS AND DIBATII Of THI Jjd cONGtISS, HAST Country 4,423,040 Acres of Fun. IISSION & Bridle Trails Follow old Pony Express Trails. Rock Hounding Famous for rock hounding. Jeep NEW DEVELOPMENT IN RECYCLING Topaz, Wonder Stone, Agate and many others. Ghost Towns Ophir & Mercur. Wasatch National Forest! New Magnesium Plant and 2,000 Stansbury Park Utah's growth area this decade. acre Industrial Park Bonneville Salt Flats. Famous Internationally Western Amateur Golf Tournamentm Bonneville Races in August. 4th of July Parade & Celebration. HON. BILL FRENZEL OF MINNESOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday , April 4, 1 973 Mr. FRENZEL, Mr. Speaker, on February 15, the Minneapolis Star carried a news article which, I believe, will be of considerable interest to Members who are interested in the subject of recycling. The article discusses the activities of the Recyclomatic Co. in developing and operating a recycling process for nylon. Nylon is a nonbiodegradable product. Such materials pose special handling disposal . - problems, and recycling techniques which apply to them are especially interesting to environmentalists. The article follows: PANTY HOSE, NYLONS RUN INTO FIELD OF RECYCLING (By Beverly Kees) Don't throw away your old nylons and panty hose. Like bottles and beer cans, panty hose can be recycled. The worlds first panty hose project is starting right here, it was announced today by W.S. Egekvist, president of Sorenco, . Inc., a Minneapolis-base- d con- sulting firm. The firm has formed a new division, the Recyclomatic Company, to deal with recycling nylon and related plastics, Egekvist said. The executive director is David H. Carlson, who is resigning as director of the Metropolitan Recycling Center, St. Paul, one of the sheltered work programs operated by the Occupational Training Center, Inc. (OTC), St. Paul. Sorenco is putting up the money for the equipment to process the nylon and handicapped workers will do the processing. Proceeds from the sale of recycled products will go to support OTC programs. Women are asked to drop off laundered panty hose and nylons at any of several collection stations around the metropolitan area. because he believes industry must do its part to conserve our natural resources within industries in which we operate. If the project is successful here, Egekvist hopes similar projects will be launched around the country. The project not only reuses otherwise abandoned material but also ' provides jobs for the physically and mentally handicapped, he said. Certainly the raw material for the project is available, he said. Hosiery Association data from 1971 shows 2 lA billion pairs of hose are produced annually, a significant share of which is panty hose and nylons. Laundered hose can be dropped off starting today at Metro-Recyclin- g Center, 666 Pelham Blvd., St. Paul, and its St. Louis Park outlet at 7200 Walker Av. Carlson Companies are setting up the collection stations at Gold Bond Gift Centers: 1082 University Av., St. Paul; 1102 Nicollet Av.; 12715 B. Hwy, 55; and in Mankato, Minn., at 611 S. Front St. Also National Brand Distributors catalog showrooms at 6215 Brooklyn Blvd., Brooklyn Center; 1815 N. St. Paul Rd., St. Paul; and in Sheboygan, Wis. For Information Write TOOELE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Phone: (801) 882-303- 3, 364-494- 1 ACCOUNT d teaJ eSitters need notimmed and other pvable upon SHARP l conteact signed tisement PR pUBLlCATioN. Rem work. Talker cash lot cation Write the w0 immediately- - iSxsiHip vasuiiSfUMS liliiiisnUKBMJiSlil1 ft HM ed verified of adv used u0w you 68,252 has . John DuRand, OTC executive director, said several retailers and manufacturers cooperating in the program plan to give coupons worth money or trading stamps as added incentives. Handicapped workers will snip off the elastic and separate the hose according to type (6 or most American hose is 66 type 66) which is determined by a heat test. The nylon is shredded, the color is removed and it is melt-- , into elastic ed, then The thread can thread. nylon a make to used be later variety of nylon products, Egekvist explained. He said the company plans to get into other nylon recycling programs later, perhaps using lingerie. Egekvist said he spent a year in research to start the program v TOOELE COUNTY COMMISSION IFIL&1P (3MEHIGKD P.O. BOX 11717, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 s |