Waste paper recycling: downtown businesses lead the way.Waste paper recycling Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. Downtown businesses lead the way Like every other major metropolitan area, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. is in a space crunch -- landfill space. In an attempt to avert a major crisis, the state legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: Since two thirds of all the waste generated in Los Angeles is commercial, businesses must become part of the regional recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. effort. One of the most successful programs is in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . The major trash hauler in the downtown area is City of Industry-based Zakaroff Recycling Services. The company has implemented a comprehensive recycling program to introduce building managers, owners and tenants to an innovative, cost-effective office paper recycling program. The program is based on a thorough study conducted on the typical waste stream of a high rise office building and incorporates elements such as work habits of high rise tenants and janitorial duties. One major office tower participating in the program accomplished a 75 percent recycling of waste paper. Through that single program, almost 2,000 tons of paper were recycled last year. The effort also saved 32,760 trees, 69 million gallons of water and 4,450 barrels of oil. Los Angeles also gained 3,800 cubic yards of precious landfill space. 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. executive director Shauna Kandilian, 90 percent of downtown office buildings are enrolled in the firm's recycling program. Kandilian is the firm's trainer -- she instructs tenant firms individually on the best ways to recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. . The program is kept simple; at its core is a system whereby tenants dispose of paper and food wastes in separate, color-coded receptacles. Kandilian also enlists the involvement of building management companies with pre-pick-up trash sorting, which greatly simplifies the recycling effort. The program is regularly monitored and up to date industry information is provided as part of the training process. Angeles. Diverted materials include paper, glass, plastics, aluminum, tin and other metals. Material recovery facility Zakaroff Recycling Services operates General Recycling Services, a state-of-the-art material recovery facility with the latest in conveyors and computerized baling systems. By establishing the material recovery facility, instead of maintaining a recycling center, waste diversion capacity is expanded greatly. A recycling center is designed to accept materials that have already been removed from the waste stream, whereas a material recovery facility conducts separation at the facility and promotes a greater diversion of material from the waste stream. Currently the facility is diverting 20,000 tons of recyclables per month from landfills. In 1980 there were 16 landfills in operation in the Los Angeles area. Now there are only nine. This has caused a dramatic rise in tipping fees and early closures of landfills attaining their allotted al·lot tr.v. al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting, al·lots 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion: allotting land to homesteaders; allot blame. 2. daily tonnage TONNAGE, mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story's L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonnage of any ship or vessel, the surveyor, &c. . General Recycling Services is one of only three currently licensed material recovery facilities in the City of Los Angeles
Downtown office towers that have implemented comprehensive recycling programs include Arco Plaza, Security Pacific Plaza, 444 Plaza and Citicorp Plaza. Marty Simonoff is general manager of Zakaroff Recycling Services. |
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