sajnos ismet angolul, de hatha valakit erdekel, mik a fobb kerdesek a
muanyagok ujrafelhasznalasaval kapcsolatban, es hogy itt hogy allnak
hozza a kerdeshez. (apropo: mi a jo szo magyarul a 'recycling'-re? az
ujrafekhasznalas az nem jo; az 're-use'. OK, ujrahasznositas -- de amikor
a haziasszony bedobja a papir-kukaba a mult heti ujsagot, akkor o azert
attol meg csak nem 'ujrafelhasznal', nem?).
Diana
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TASK FORCE CONVENED TO STUDY PLASTICS DILEMMA
The Ecology Center, a non-profit environmental organization operating in
Berkeley since 1969, has convened a Plastics Task Force to sort out the
complex and controversial issues surrounding the recycling of plastics. The
group will study the economic, practical and environmental implications of
disposing of plastic packaging, and look at the feasibility of picking up
plastics curbside.
In recent years, endless categories of plastics have proliferated and
entered the waste stream as a result of an industry shift from glass, paper
and metal to plastic packaging. Plastics packaging has become increasingly
controversial in recent years as negative Impacts stemming from the
manufacture and disposal of various types of plastics packaging have come to
light. Public interest in addressing solutions, particularly through
recycling is strong, but the discussion is surrounded by a great deal of
confusion on the part of consumers. In part, the confusion stems from the
misleading "chasing arrows" designations on containers, assigning numbers to
types of resin used. The chasing arrows (arrows continuous in a triangle
around the number) connote when in fact recycling options for many consumer
plastics do not exist .
Several Bay Area communities currently offer recycling options for limited
types of plastic packaging, primarily PET and HDPE ( soft drink bottles and
milk jugs). In Berkeley, Community Conservation Centers (CCC) accepts PET and
HDPE at both donation centers at Martin Luther King Way and Dwight and Second
and Gilman. CCC is currently evaluating a program for purchasing plastic at
the BuyBack.
The City of Berkeley has requested that a plastics plan be presented to the
City Council by City staff in May, with the issue of the feasibility of
curbside pickup of plastics a primary consideration. The Ecology Center, a
pioneer in curbside recycling in the U.S., now operates Berkeley's curbside
program under contract with the City, and is being asked to address the
feasibility of adding plastics to their curbside program.
Representatives from Berkeley's recycling organizations including Urban Ore,
Community Conservation Centers and City of Berkeley staff, will join the
Ecology Center to explore such issues as:
* current markets for post-consumer resins
* trends in packaging materials
* economic viability of curbside pick-up of plastics, including surveys of
communities in the Bay Area currently picking up plastics
* the environmental implications of plastics recycling and manufacture of
plastic packaging
* end uses of recycled resin, such as plastic lumber, and environmental
implications of those products
* social and environmental implications of the export of plastic waste
as well as project cost and operational matters associated with curbside
pick-up of plastics. Consultation with the academic community, environmental
organizations, plastics industry experts and public solid waste management
agencies will provide much of the information the task force analyzes.
A report with findings and recommendations will be published by the task
force at the completion of the study. Interim reports required by the City
for its planning efforts will be provided to the plastics subcommittee of
Berkeley Solid Waste Management Commission.
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Plastics Task Force
Ecology Center
2530 San Pablo Ave.,
Berkeley CA 94702 USA
510-548-2220 (T-F 11-5)
email: 
email: 
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Szervusztok,
*** Nagymaros ***
Diana irta tegnap, hogy egy amerikai sajt szerint a WWF utolag banja mar,
hogy annak idejen a G/N vizlepcsorendszert biralta. Sajnos nem tudok er-
demben nyilatkozni a G/N tenyleges hasznarol --- akkor is, most is poli-
tikai kerdes, es az esetleg letezo informaciok ennek megfeleloen megszur-
ve jutnak el az agyamhoz (a szuro elso fokozata a tenyek es a szemem kozt
van, ez a politikai cenzura, a masodik pedig a szemem es az agyam kozott,
ez pedig a politikai szimpatia). Annak idejen arrol szoltak a kornyezet-
vedo hiradasok, hogy a felduzzasztott viz lelassul, a benne sodrodo igen
finom lebegoanyag lerakodik a mederfenekre, ezzel eltomi a fenek finom
porusait, es igy a nagyobb hidrosztatikai nyomas ellenere is kevesebb viz
szivaroghat el a talajba. Ennek kapcsan emlegettek is tobb hasonlo peldat,
sajnos nem jartam sem brazil, sem kinai sikvideki eromuvek kornyeken, el-
lenorizni nem tudtam, de a gondolatmenet hihetonek tunik. Csak persze az
ellenkezoje is (marmint az, hogy a megnovekedett hidrosztatikai nyomast
nem ellensulyozza a lerakodas). Valamint a viztarozo (elvben) ontozesi
celokat is szolgalhatott volna, bar kotve hiszem, hogy az energialobby
barmikor is hozzajarult volna ilyesmihez.
Tovabba lehet, hogy ez az egesz WWF sancolas, vagy talan csak az ujsag-
cikk a szlovak kulpolitika vagy az internacionalista vizugyi lobbi (el-
kesett) sakkhuzasa. Nem ez lenne az elso eset, hogy velunk nem szimpati-
zalo szomszedaink ugyes orszagpropagandaja a tenyektol fuggetlen hireket
ultet el alaposan a nyugati kozvelemenyben....
*** Shell ***
Hogy is van ezzel az elsullyesztesre/partraszallitasra varo Shell gigasz-
szal? Aztat olvastam, hogy az elsullyesztesre kijelolt teruleten a tenger-
fenek tele van magas femtartalmu kioldodasokkal meg egyebekkel, vagyis ott
sok vizet nem zavart volna egy kis raadas, a partraszallitas viszont baro-
mi sokba kerul, kockazatos, es a szarazfoldi elhelyezes garantaltan koze-
lebb van az edesviz-keszletekhez. A tenger lakoi viszonylag mobilak, el
tudnak koltozni a szamukra kellemetlen kornyezetbol, a szarazfoldi lenyek
kevesbe. Ja, lehet, hogy ezt a hixen olvastam, csak mar elejtettem fel?
Udv: Laci (Ericsson Kft, Budapest, Magyarorszag)
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List of Environment Related Events
in Central and Eastern Europe
LIST OF EVENTS:
8/21/95
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECOLOGY
Budapest, Hungary
Language:
Contact: Contours Ltd, tel/fax: 36-1-156-6712
8/27/95
ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES-A BASIS FOR THE SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT
Content: actual trends in the theoratical and practical
ecological research; ways through which ecology can
contribute: to maintain the balance in the natural, human-
created or controlled ecosystems;to maintain the
biodiversity;to the ecological reconstruction and
reestablishment of the human environment
Arad, Romania
Language: Romanian, English
Contact: Centrul de Cercetari pentru Technologii
Ecologice ( pentru Conferinta Nationala de Ecologie),
Splaiul Independentei 296, CP 17-45, 77748 Bucuresti,
Romania
9/4/95
ENVIROFILM, INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FILM FESTIVAL
The principal aim of the Festival is to present, confront
and stimulate in an international scale the production of
films, TV programmes, shots and documentaries as well as
videofilms focusing on protection of nature and
environment, enlarge knowledge of the people and enhance
their activities while solving these problems as well as
support education towards the care for preservation of
nature and environment.
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Language:
Contact: SAZP, Tajovskeho 28, 974 00 Banska Bystrica,
Slovak Republic, tel: 42-88-7352-13, fax: 88-35214
9/11/95
EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE
national programmes for sustainable development, local
government, urban&rural development, strategic
environmental assessment, eco-management, waste
minimisation and energy efficiency measures, transport,
travel and tourism, agriculture and conservation, country
profiles, etc.
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Language: English
Contact: European Environment Conference Organiser, ERP
Environment, PO Box 75, Shipley, West Yorkshire BD17 6EZ,
United Kingdom, tel: 44-1274-530-408, fax: 44-1274-530-
409
9/13/95
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT IN
PRODUCTION OF LUBRICANTS
Sopron, Hungary
Language:
Contact: Hungarian Chemical Society, tel: 36-1-201-
6883,fax: 36-1-201-8056
9/14/95
NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: INTEGRATED MONITORING OF THE
ENVIRONMENT, FUNCTIONING AND MONITORING OF GEOECOSYSTEMS
concepts and methodology of integrated monitoring of the
environment within mountain areas, measurement methods in
environmental investigation, field excursion to reservoir
on the Ropa River
Poznan, Poland
Language: Polish, English
Contact: Prof.Dr.Andrzej Kostrzewski, Quaternary Research
Institute, Adam Miczkiewicz University, Fredry 10, 61-701
Poznan, Poland, tel: 486-529-327, fax: 486-153-0234, e-
mail: 
9/15/95
"GEOSCIENCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING" TRAINING WORKSHOP
Environmentally acceptable and economically feasible
disposal of domestic, industrial and nuclear waste
Matrahaza, Hungary
Language: English
Contact: Annamaria Nador, Hungarian Geological Survey,
1143 Budapest, Stefania ut 14, Hungary, tel: 36-60-317-
633, fax: 36-1-251-0703, e-mail: 
9/18/95
"CHEMISTRY FOR PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT"
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The objective is to improve technology transfer and
scientific dialogue, leading to a better appreciation of
environmentally related problems.
Lublin, Poland
Language:
Contact: Dr. Marzenna R. Dudzinska, Technical University
of Lublin, 40, Nadbystrzycka Str., 20-618 Lublin, Poland,
fax: 48-81-55-69-48, e-mail:
9/19/95
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND REMEDIATION IN CEE
Hazards, Waste control, Monitoring, Risk Assessments
Budapest, Hungary
Language: English
Contact: Mervyn Richardson, B.A.S.I.C., 6 Birch Drive,
Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Herts, WD3 2UL, England,
Tel.: +44 923 774187, Fax: +44 494 714516
9/29/95
EUROPARC 1995
Assembly and Annual Conference of the Federation of
Nature and National Parks of Europe (FNNPE)
Bled, Triglav National Park, Slovenia
Language:
Contact: FNNPE, Krollstrasse 5, 94481 Grafenau, Germany,
tel: 49-8552-96100, fax: 49-8552-3242
10/2/95
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING AND URBAN
SUSTAINABILITY BEYOND 2000
Sustainability of urban traffic systems, urban energy
systems, and urban infrastructural systems
Budapest, Hungary
Language: English
Contact: P. Steingaszner, WEPSD Hungarian Branch, c/o
MTESZ, Kossuth Lajos ter 6-8, 1055 Budapest, Hungary,
tel:+361.153.3333, fax:+361.153.0371
10/2/95
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING AND URBAN
SUSTAINABILITY
Budapest, Hungary
Language:
Contact: Conference tours, tel: 36-1-132-9999, fax: 36-1-
111-7428
10/11/95
THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT EXHIBITION
economical and " environment friendly" building material
industry, transportation, agriculture, alternative
energy technologies, etc.
Budapest, Hungary
Language:
Contact: ELITEXPO Kft., 1137 Budapest, Pozsonyi ut 30.,
tel/fax: 361-270-0868
10/17/95
EEBW '95, ENERGY EFFICIENCY BUSINESS WEEK
All aspects of energy conservation as a path to economic
prosperity and sustainable development will be presented.
Prague, Czech Republic
Language: English, Czech
Contact: Martin Dasek,SEVEn, Slezska 7, 120 56 Prague 2.
Czech Republic, tel: 42-2-2424-7552, fax: 42-2-2424-7597,
e-mail: 
10/26/95
4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: NATURAL GAS, TRADE AND
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN RUSSIA AND THE CIS
Topics include: Economic Outlook, Implications of the
Russian Energy Strategy, Gas Industry and the
Environment, Demand and Supply Balance, Taxation
Environment, Opportunities for Foreign Investors, etc.
London, United Kingdom
Language: English, Russian
Contact: Julia Thomas, The Conference Unit, The Royal
Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, 10 St
James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom, tel: 44-
171-957-5700, fax: 44-171-321-2045 or 44-171-957-5710
11/13/95
THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CASE METHOD RESEARCH
AND CASE METHOD APPLICATION
Environmental problem solving - from cases and
experiments to concepts, knowledge, tools and motivation.
Maribor, Slovenia
Language: English
Contact: Dr. Marjan Vezjak, Center of Environmental
Activities, Miklosiceva 38/III, 61000 Ljubljana, tel/fax:
386-61-30-28-23
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