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On the West Coast, M^iin County in California has set a goa jto push the county’s recycling r £e from 12 to 47 percent by 1990. A^d in Anaheim, the California Glass Recycling Corporation is coordinating several projects, one of which hejps hotels, restaurants and bars estyfrlish in-house recycling programs. *!
Studies have shown that it takfcs approximately 2.Vz minutes a monj-h for residents of a household to separate recyclable materials from tlfeir garbage. According to Kelly McDaniel Whitney, executive director !of the Clean Valley Council in Rcfenoke, “It’s just a matter of getting people into the habit. ” \ <
The results of a successful program can have a significant imgiit: For every 100,000 people who recycle half of their glass bottles -god jars, 10 million bottles and jars Ja year can be recovered, saving mike than 1,600 cubic yards of lancMll space. 11
Responsibility for the waste t{*posal crisis should be shared by Industry, government and consumes alike. Our amber waves of grain Me being overwhelmed by not-so-majfttic mountains of solid waste. With recycling, we may be able to manage the crisis before it buries us.
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-If The Glass Packing Institute, vhich supplied the preceding co|#nentary, represents the manufriurers of glass containers of various ypes. ' <
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