DIAPER PROJECT A FIRST CITY TO START RECYCLING IN NOVEMBER.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Give us your cans, your bottles, your ... diapers? After months of debate and planning, the city is set to launch the nation's first diaper recycling pilot program in November, asking 500 residents to leave their babies' unmentionables un·men·tion·a·ble adj. Not fit to be mentioned or discussed; unspeakable: unmentionable words. n. 1. One that is not to be mentioned. 2. unmentionables Underwear. - disposable inventions that can take up to 500 years to decompose de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. - by the curb once a week. ``Anytime you have an opportunity to redirect mass that was otherwise going to a landfill, you really have to pursue it aggressively,'' said Jason Smisko, interim environmental services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, manager for the city of Santa Clarita. Brochures were mailed to 500 households in four Santa Clarita neighborhoods last week explaining the pilot program. Participants will be selected from those who return the questionnaire. Collaborating with recycling firm Knowaste and Santa Clarita/Blue Barrel Disposal Co., the city matched a $250,000 state grant for the pilot program, contributing $500,000 to the six-month trial. Just as residents leave their garbage cans curbside each week, program participants will be asked to collect their household's used disposable diapers in a free, specially designed plastic bag to be left with with their weekly trash and recycling. After the diapers are hauled to a processing site in Sun Valley, Knowaste's patented technology will be used to sanitize To remove sensitive data from an information system, a database or an extract from a database. See sensitive. and treat the refuse before it's sorted and removed for use in products like plastic wood, roof shingles, vinyl wood siding and wallpaper. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the city, nearly 20 million disposable diapers are deposited in landfills annually across the country. As the population swells and landfill space shrinks in Santa Clarita and surrounding areas, many view the pilot program as the latest addition in the community's push to recycle. ``We believe we're the first in the country to do this,'' Smisko said. ``We've got to direct less trash to landfills and more trash to being recycled. We're treading on foreign territory but we're doing it as enthusiastically and as well planned as we can.'' The city will examine the results of the six-month program and decide whether to implement the program throughout the city. For more information, call the city's Environmental Services Division at (661) 286-4098. |
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