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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1976)
University, county study plan Landfills like this one are rapidly filling up across the country. Projects like the University 's plan to bum garbage will help take the strain off the over-used landfills. Refuse replaces wood for fuel A Lane County-University plan to use garbage as fuel for the University’s power plant is being studied by Physical Plant Director Harold Babcock. Babcock said Wednesday that a plan currently being studied will use Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) as a partial replacement for “hog fuel" (wood waste). Hog fuel is currently the only fuel used in the University power plant, which pro vides heat and electricity for the University. The county will provide the RDF from a resource recovery plant it plans to build adjacent to its pres ent Glen wood facility, Babcock said. The county has started the bidding process required to con struct the plant, he added. If an acceptable bid is received, the plant will open about a year after a contract has been awarded, he said. The recycling plant would first shred the garbage received from regular garbage pickups, then remove any metal and glass, exp lained Babcock. The remainder of the garbage would be used as RDF to be burned in the power plant. Babcock hopes the new pro cess will cost no more than the present system. He said the pro cess will be used on a small, ex perimental basis until he decides if the plan is feasible. The power plant fuel mixture eventually will be one-half garbage and one-half hog fuel, he said, adding that any savings resulting from the changeover would depend on the price of hog fuel. Although he is unsure what pol luntants will be released into the air, he said there will be no more than is presently released be cause of governmental air quality standards, there is no adverse smell from burning the garbage. “Ecologically, I think it is great because we will be getting some thing useful out of our garbage, Babcock said. I I I I I I I I ASUO studies athletic fund proposal | The ASUO Executive is cur rently examining a proposal be fore the State Board of Higher Education which would increase University registration fees by $6 to help subsidize non-self supporting athletic programs. Mark Cogan, ASUO vice president for legislative affairs, says he is "ca citrous of the prop osal, introduced by Chancellor Roy Lieuallen because of the pos Warren named to SUAB post Jeff Warren was named chairer of the Student University Affairs Board (SUAB) state and local committee Friday by summer in terim SUAB chairer Andrea Gel latly. sibility of placing an additional fi nancial responsibility on students. Presently profits from the inter collegiate basketball and football programs, including incidental fee subsidies for student tickets, fund men’s non-revenue sports unable to support themselves through ticket sales. Women's athletics depend solely on incidental fee money. The chancellor's proposal aims to make the “minor sports" financially independent from these sources. As the recommendation reads now, the State Board would in itiate in 1977 a separate athletic fund; approximately two thirds of it would consist of student registra tion fees and the balance would come from state funds. Although registration fees would increase, a decrease in the incidental fee charge is expected. Discussion on the proposal will begin at the upcoming State Board committee meeting scheduled for Monday at 3 p.m. in 113 EMU. In the meantime, ASUO officers “will have to study further" to de termine the net cost to students, Cogan explains. UJednesdaq Ron LloMd 9-1 UJizard of Harmonq cover Thursday 4:00 Pilcher Sale Thursday, fridai) & Saturday foxe & Weasel 9-2 -State restrictions set Bulk yogurt portioning stopped at area stores By MARTHA BLISS Of the Emerald If stores buy their food in bulk from wholesalers and then divvy it up into smaller quan tities for customers, they can save both themselves and the customers money. This is a nifty idea, but it doesn't work in all cases. Yogurt is one of those cases, and the State Department of Agriculture now restricts stores from portioning out their bulk yogurt into smaller quantities for retail sale. Two Eugene stores caught in this practice were the Willamette People s Co-Op Grocery and the Sun dance Natural Food Store. At both stores, customers could bring their own contain ers and buy portions of Nancy brand yogurt kept in bulk; store workers would simply lade it into their containers. But the agriculture department now says the practice is unsanitary since yogurt is a fluid milk grade A dairy product, all of which must be packaged where it is processed and re main unopened until its final sale. The department s main ob jection to the stores proce dures, according to Martin King, one of the Willamette managers, was the ladle which stayed in the yogurt bulk con ^ tainers. The handle, which re ceived wide exposure to human bacteria through the ladler's hands, was deemed unsanitary. Anthony Stahelski, manager of Sundance, admits the prac tice was "pretty raunchy." He also agrees with the unsanitary ruling and says his store would eventually have resorted to using special taps for yogurt dispension if it continued the practice King says he thinks sanita tion is a personal judgment and that the agriculture de partment’s stipulation is too "radical.” At any rate, the two stores can no longer buy Nancy yogurt in bulk from the Spring field Creamery if they are going to dispense it improperly. The creamery is still allowed to sell the five-gallon bulk containers, and usually does so to restaur ants which use the yogurt in cooking. As with the stores, however, restaurants cannot serve cutomers grade A dairy products directly out of bulk containers without special taps. Sue Kesey of the cremery says she was aware of the stores' improper dispensing techniques but did not refuse to sell the yogurt to them before the agriculture department’s enforcement. 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