1978_02 The Daily Collegian February 1978

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Junk finds life at recycling center
by Dion* Zostovnik
Staff reporter
Rusty barrels ot broken glass. . .
soggy stacks of yellowing paper. . .
crushed cans heaped up In boxes: It
looks Uka a trash dump squeezed In
between the Instructional Media "satellite" lab and the greenhouse, near
the corner of Barstow and Maple.
But those bits of aluminum toll and
shattered glass are not just useless
remnants   and   worthless junk.    They
eratlon  of containers  and other pro-
These potentially valuable meteriala
are sent to processors Instead of the
dump by the Campus Recycling Center,
operated by Beta Beta Beta (also known
is Three Beta), the naUonal biological
honor society.
Anyone may bring glass, aluminum,
bl-metal cans and paper to the center.
Karen Andersen, president of Three
Beta and manager of the recycling cen-i
ter, said that all kinds of glass except
mirrors, light bulbs and ceramics are
acceptable.
Labels can be left on because they
will bum off when the glass la melt- -
ed. Metal lids can be recycled with
the bl-metal cans. ■.-   . -
The glass Is broken 'and stored In
drums at the recycling center.
When there Is enough for a truck-
load, Andersen uses the university's
(orkllft to load the glass Into a dump- '
Wayne Loomls drfves the truck to the
Madera glass plant where the glass Is
melted and made into wine bottles. A
winery across the street from the plant
uses the bottles. The broken glass Is
selling for $20 per ton.
Three Beta has been taking only aluminum cans to Coots, but the recycling
center  ac^w^>alujDl«itun,.ln| ajjy,,-fxu-m. ..
n said they may soon redeem
foil, TV dinner trays and other aluminum, as well as cans, through Reynolds Aluminum. Coora pays about
17? per pound for the cans.
Bl-metal cans, the kind used for fruits,
vegetables and most other food, should
have the labels removed. Cans do not
have to be flattened, but Andersen said
It would be helpful If they were.
The case are picked up every two weeks
. by the Preano-Clovia Metropolitan Area
Recycling Project (FCMARP).
FCMARP, which used to be called Valley Recycling, does not pay Three Beta
for the cans, nor does It charge for
picking them up.
The cans are taken to San Francisco
where they are chemically separated into
The
Andersen said that they will accept almost any 'paper and.cardboard. They
do not take telephone books, but FCMARP
, Magazines and other slick paper
ot be recycled. Newspapers do not
to be bundled. They can be yellowed,
center takes cor regaled boxes, paper
bags and six-pack carriers.
The paper is hauled to Consolidated
Fibres, Inc., In a roll-off truck bed
ranted from Browning-Ferris Industries.
: The Associated Students pay the fee
of $20 per load for the bin. The price
for paper is $35 per ton, and Andersen
said that one bin usually brings In $200
to $250.
Three Beta hauls cardboard to Consolidated Fibres In the university's
dumptruck. A load la worth no' more
than ten dollars, since the company pays
by the pound and the cardboard does
not weigh much.
The center gets lots of unrecylable
things, Andersen said. These have to
be sorted out and disposed of.
The paper and glass companies make
their payments directly to CSUF. Three
Beta turns In to the university any other
money It receives from selling the re-
cyclablea.   ,
Part of the money la later returned
to the club. They receive the Drat $90
of each month's receipts plus 25 per
cent of anything over that. The rest
of the money goes Into a special fund.
Three Beta took charge of the recycling center In Oct. of 1978. It receives Its share of the profits Irregularly. Andersen Could not say how much
has been received.
Three Beta us
ss some of the money
for its district
convention   which will
be   held   near the end ot March this
year.
Andersen said
that the purpose   of
Three   Beta   is
to promote  research.
Tbe   convention
Is an opportunity (or
members of all
Three Beta chapters
In tbe district to get together and dis
o sponsors a biology
Three Beta a
field day for hlgt
of their recycling center earnings are
used for plaques and prizes for this
- competitive event.
All members of Three Beta are encouraged to work in the recycling center. ■ Ten hours' :work per semester
counts  as their dues.    Last semester
14 n
it In s«
three worked for over ten hours.
George Ingham spent 27 hours sorting, crushing and stacking. Karen Andersen worked about 20 hours. She
salrt,  fit Is a  realty satisfying Job."
As an example of the Importance
of recycling, she pointed out that Uie.
United States Imports all Its tin from
other countries. "'There is no tin found
In Ihe U.S.--except In our garbage dumps.
Without the foreign suppliers, we might
have to resort to mining them.
Chemistry prof —ian admitted work-aholic
by Michelle Carter
Staff reporter
Although Dr. George B. Kauffman
believes many of our problems stem
(rom "the Protestant work ethic we
have in this screwed-up country," he
admits  he's  an Incurable work-aholic
To date he has produced more than
325 technical papers, reviews and encyclopedia articles, the majority of which
have been published during his 22-year
tenure as professor of chemistry at
csuf. And Just recently he received
the   first   copy   of  his   seventh book.
"I  usually have  too many irons In
Kauffman said the series presents science as an on-going human endeavor,
"a dynamic human enterprise, not as
If the Information came off of clay tablets
that were brought down from Mt. Sinai."
eanlng back In
i swivel chair, v
locking as If he had just Jogged through
the door ('T did," he said), Kauffman
puffed on a short, black cigar while
he described his newest project.
Available for more than a month
now ("But we're stUl watting for feed-
back," he said), It's an audio-visual
course of study In the history of chemistry. He and a collegue, Dr. Leo
Schubert, chairman of the Chemistry
Department at the American University in Washington, D.C., conceived the
Idea seven years ago.
The course consists of four cassette-
taped lectures, each with a companion
manual that details the lives and work
o' several of the "creative" geniuses
'-•'■ chemistry. It la offered for sale
b>' the American Chemical Society
through a mall order program.
The theme of the lectures Is "creativity in chemistry," a concept Kauffman says probably confuses most people
outside of the sciences.
"The layman thinks primarily of scientists as technicians, cogs In a giant
machine,"      Kauffman said.       "That
One of the major aims of the lecture
series is to show that "scientists, like
artists,   use   their   imaginations,"   he
ship, Kauffman said, with manuscripts
originating from as far away as Budapest and England.
But the majority of the material came
from the United States, and Kauffman
himself la responsible for one of the
tapes, "Coortilnatlon Chemistry: Its
history through the time of Werner."
Kauffman la well qualified to lecture
on his chosen topic. He wrote his
master's thesis on Alfred Werner, the
generally recognized father of modern
chemistry. In fact he spent a year
In Zurich researching the man and tracing the origins of his work. The material
became his first book, published In 1966.
Kauffman claims that he owes his
teaching style to Werner through a
"once-removed" relationship he enjoyed
with the great man.
"In my freshman year In college
(1948 at the University of Pennsylvania)
I studied under a professor who had
studied under Werner."
Due to his Influence, he said, he wrote
and published his first research paper
on complex molecules..
"As a result," he said, "I'm sort
of paying the debt by encouraging this
kind of research in my own students."
More than 40 of his students have
appeared as co-authors or nearly 701
of. his published works, and several of!
these   projects   have   gone   on to win!
recipient of 24 research grants.
His awards are numerous, ranging;,
from chemistry's "Guggerhelm," to .
Outstanding Professor of 1973 In recognition of creative leaching and scholarly
But his favorite award, a bronze medal
■ from the Russian Academy of Sciences,
he referred to fondly and with a touch
ot humor.
d that he "usually wears It
>ck,'' but today tt just didn't^
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