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...would take a machine operator and a hauler a day to take the back to the dirt," he said...
...Cyanamid's recent trading price, which made its shareholders the envy of Wall Street. Moreover, the staggering bid arrived while investors were still humming with reports that the Norfolk Southern railroad was in talks to acquire Conrail, once a sickly ward of the government but now a healthy freight hauler, in a deal that would create the second largest U.S. rail carrier...
Paper, especially newspaper, is the biggest component of landfills -- about 40%. Despite being the most widely recycled material, newsprint is not at all easy to process or market. "Often we can't give the stuff away," says James Harvey, owner of E.L. Harvey & Sons, Inc., a Westboro, Massachusetts, hauler. Facilities to remove ink from newsprint -- a necessary step before it can be pulped to make new paper -- are enormously expensive. To justify the investment, recyclers need the sort of arrangement just announced between the city of Houston and Champion Recycling Corp. In return for building an $85 million de-inking...
...buying recycled. Unless consumers express a purchasing preference for products made from recycled paper, backlogs of post-consumer paper will pile up in dealers' yards. Because demand for products made from recycled newspaper hasn't caught up with the supply, Harvard's Facilities Maintenance must pay its waste paper hauler $35 per ton to take newspaper...
...shuttle may serve some auxiliary role in the space program, but the thrust of the program should be to further scientific knowledge of space. Even sending astronauts beyond earth orbit would be a welcome break from the cargo-hauler routine of the shuttle, for it would at least appeal to the imaginatior of the average person. Clearly, however the greatest scientific returns come from increased use of spacecraft. Although the shuttle is back in service, the United States still lacks a successful space program...