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by MARY B. GOOD People who recycle all-aluminum cans or would like to but can’t tell the dif ference between cans — will soon have a new and quicker way to identify them. A new national recycling symbol will be appearing on such cans within the next few months. The all-aluminum recycling symbol features two semi-curved arrows in the form of a circle, representing the contin uous nature of the recycling process. Within the circle is an aluminum triangle and the words, “recycle aluminum” or “recyclable aluminum.” Aluminum recycling is a method of con serving resources and reducing solid waste. It also pays collectors $200 a ton. (Lissner Brothers, 1000 N. Northbranch, Chicago. Other types of cans bring $20 a ton (steel and tin) and bi-metal, $10 a ton or a penny a pound, from National Can, American Can, or Continental Can. IN A PREVIOUS recycling article, the address of the nearest can recycling plant, National Can Co., was inadvert ently misprinted. The correct address for National is 1656 N. Kilpatrick Ave., Chicago. Arlington Heights is taking a most ag gressive approach to Earth Week (April 18 through April 24). Every organization worth its salt is involved in Earth Day activities. Planned are an aluminum can drop-off program, newspaper pickup, school site clean-up, essay and poster contest for school children, massive anti litter, ecology campaign and anti-pollu tion crusade. Here’s the agenda of the Arlington Ju nior Woman’s Club, for instance: Wednesday, April 21 — “Think White Day”’ (The women advocate buying only white paper products and returnable bot tles. Thursday, April 22 — Bicycle Ecology Day (Non-automotive campaign will urge shoppers, commuters and school children to get where they are going on wheels.) Friday, April 22 — ‘Plant a Tree Day” (Juniors get in and dig.) Saturday, April 24 — Bottle and alumi num drop-off program. (Juniors and Arlington Heights Jay cees will work together to accept any body’s recyclables 9 a.m. to 4 p.m..) -Parking lot, Rand Junior High, 2600 N. Arlington Heights Road. —Parking Lot, Juliette Low School, 1530 S. Highland. -Commuter Parking lot, northwest corner of Signall and Arlington Heights Road. THE PALATINE Chamber of Com merce has a massive anti-litter morato rium planned for April 8 through 18. The town will be divided into 180 sections. Each section will be patrolled by volun teers. Mrs. David Yeats may be con tacted at 358-5900 by persons willing to lend a hand, a truck, a wheelbarrow etc. Saturday, April 17, the Hanover Park Woman’s Club will conduct a glass drive at Pic ’n Pay Walgreen Agency Drugs, Barrington Road, Hanover Park, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mrs. Egon Peter son, 837-3073, may be contacted for fur ther information. GLASS IS THE bugaboo of con servationists because it will not decom pose. Answer: Recycling, of course. The Standard Oil Company of Ohio (Sohio) has come up with a plastic resin that looks like glass, is more resistant to breakage and is a short-range step to the solid-waste landfill problem where recy cling is not implemented. (The long range answer is education and self-dis cipline. ) Sohio’s material is called Barex 210 (R) bottle resin. It can be “‘safely and easily incinerated,’ the company claims. The question that apparently remains is: What does Sohio do about air pollution from burning? Perhaps the company is also “coming up” with some way of im plementing an afterburner concept which will burn up residual combustible gases and particulate matter before the escape into the atmosphere. Lo se aluminum IDENTITY SYMBOL. A new national recycling sign will be appearing with in a few months on all-aluminum cans. Use of the mark is expected to relieve consumer confusion as to what cans are completely aluminum. Symbol is shown on bicycle wheel.
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Elk Grove Village Herald
Elk Grove Village, Illinois, US
Tue, Mar 30, 1971
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