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Page 2 •Thursday, December 2, 2004 NEWS The Penduluni Elon works to improve recycling habits on campus lacquie Anderson Reporter You might not tliink much of what hap pens to your Coke can after throwing it into a recycling bin, or about what happens to the needle that was just used to draw your blood at the local hospital. Physical plant workers at Alamance Regional Medical Center and Elon University know how important it is to the safety and sustainability of the environment that both hazardous and non-hazardous waste is disposed of properly. Employees of the medical center think recycling is so important that they make sure to have it play a daily part in patients’ and students lives. Most of the ofTice supplies used :ind the furniture provided at ARMC are made from recyclablc materials. 'Fhe furniture is given to other foundations when it comes to the end of its usefulness at ARMC. The more daunting task for any medical facility is the process of safely destroying and properiy disposing of hazardous waste. Wendell Osbourne, director of material management for ARMC, explains that there arc four kinds of hazardous waste generated from the hospital: chemical, chemotherapy, radioactive and infectious or regulated materi als. Chemotherapy and infectious products are collected by Stericycle in Mebane, and are incinerated in order to eliminate any risk of leakage into the surrounding environment. North Carolina Radiological Pharmaceutical is in chaise of collecting and properly destroying all radioactive products or isotopes. Infectious waste alone costs the hospital 32 cents a pound for removal and extermination. According to Osbourne the hospital destroyed 170,000 pounds of such material last year. This amount is described by Osbourne as “low compared to most hospitals.” He said the costs of removal arc little compared to the possible danger a leak or exposure to these wastes could create to nearby wildlife or human dwellings. Just a few miles away at another major Alamance County institution, Elon University employees are hard at work emphasizing the importance of recycling to students. Elon is a member of the Collegiate Recyclers Coalition, and provides recycling bins in all dorms, classrooms, administration offices and the library. The materials from the bins are collected by Republic Waste and transported to the FCR Recycling Corp. in Greensboro, where they are sorted out into the appropriate sections and enter the process of being recycled. According to Elon’s Web site, the university recycled 144,000 pounds of white cardboard and paper, and 16,000 pound.s of other recyclable items in 2003. Employees of Elon’s environmental services department are hoping to see these numbers go up years to come. . cling more on campus, says dinitor of Elon's Physical PU^t. Weji« working with the Student Association to create on that will increase awareness of recycn b ""SLe puts it best when conftom^ with the question of how the proc^o cling can be improved at of biggest way we can improve the recyclinc is to eliminate using any p that arc non-rcc\clablc." Until this ment is made, citizens at these ^ working hard to publicize and pe recycling proccss. Contact Jacquie Anderson at penduIim@elon.edu or 27H-724 . throuQh ■ Supreme Court won’t undo Mas.sachusctts gay marriaRc law The Supreme Court rejected a challenge by conservative groups Massachusetts as the only state that sanctions same-sex marriages. Justices had been asked Massachusetts in > Massachusetts high court that legalized gay marriage. h ive wed although voters may have a chance next year to change the state constuution to nirmit civil union benefits to same-sex couples, but not the institution of mamagc. Oppo^s of the November 2003 ruling by the highest court in Massachusetts argue that it violated U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of a republican form of government in each state. Seven people die in Army hclicopter crash An Antiy helicopter carrying seven The U.S. Postal Service expects to handle 20 billion pieces of mail between a television transmission helicopter a UH-60 Black Hawk bound for Red the agcncy said. While the River Ami7S'pot down in aVield about 30 miles northeast of Fort Th I™ .so thick when emergency crews arrived that they could see no more than halhvay up tit tower.Tlte hclicopter was headed to check out equipment being readied for use in Iraq. All the victims were from Fort Hood. More than 140 still trapped in China mine Toxic gas hampered the search for 141 trapped coal miners following an icep' tral China. At least 25 people were confirmed dead. High levels of carbon rescuers from reaching the site of Sunday’s disaster in Shaanxi province. How workers managed to escape the state-owned mine, with 45 hospitalized and 11 injuries. The blast rocked Chenjiashan coal mine early Sunday morning, when -9 were underground. The explosion was centered around coal pits five miles from entrance. Most of the miners who escaped were working close to the entranct and fered from carbon monoxide pt)isoning. Postal Service gets ready for an abundance of holiday mail Iraqi security forces suffer new attacks .I.C Ir-wi’s new security forces, killing seven Iraqi police and »p-'- Two U.S. soldiers died in a bombing in Baghdad. . . 11 M irines were killed in a weekend bombing south of the capital. U.S., In addition, two U.S. Mann .hmuch the area to clear Sunni insurgents from a British and Iraqi forces hiwe g ^ Karbala. Miliury olTcnMvcs m wi,h a. least ,30 Americans dead, month for U.S. troops since the Maah invasioi out to 670 million items per day, the peak mailing day is expected to be Dec. send out cards the weekend before Christmas. Mailings could jump to 850 milhon ^ day. The ptistal agency is striving to make mailing as convenient as possible, sc ' - ^ yt by telephone at 1-800-STAMP-24 and via the Internet at http:/, w ww.ups.com. as' 38,0(X) post offices, 21.000 retail stores and 16.000 automated teller machines- ‘ a very offices will have extended hours, and some will open on Sundays. Job prospects look bright for collcgc seniors The recovering economy and looming retirement of the baby boomers are ^ coU’’' good year to be a college senior looking for a jt>b after graduation. Recruiters, c selors and students say the fall recruiting .season has been the most active sincc^^^ ^ boom. College hiring is expected to increase 13 pcrcent over last year. survey from National Association of Colleges arid Employen.. Se«n out .said they expected to increase salary offers to new college grads with an average 3.7 {xrcent. Four in five employers called the job market for new gnids py^d. excellent; last year, fewer than two in five did ’Compiled by Sarah Moser from mi
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