Wednesday, July 8, 1992 - The Michigan Daily Summer Weekly-7 North Campus incinerator changes its image by Valerie Levieux As a result of residents' fears, last May the University began to The University recently converted the former North Campus store the carcasses in freezers until radioactivity decayed off. This incinerator into a new "Waste Transfer Facility," partially in measure has reduced annual incinerations from 140 to 64, which response to residents' attempts earlier in the year to close down the means "a little more than one incineration per week," Oswley said. old incinerator. According toa factsheet provided by the University'sNewsand Information Services (NIS), the purpose of the new facility is "to After new procedures were established at the allow the continuation of importantresearch andmedical treatment ... by ensuring the safe transportation, containment, monitoring, North Campus incinerator, annual interim storage and ultimate disposal of wastes and byproducts incinerations decreased from 140 to 64. containing radio nuclides, while complying with regulations." Joseph Oswley, NIS director, said the former incinerator was used to dispose of research animals' carcasses with traces of The level of radiation is now one-hundredth of a millirem - radioactivity. Although the amount of the radiation was less than a exceeding safety standards. millirem, which Oswley said posed "no danger, scientifically," SinceMichigan hasrefused tohavelow-levelwasteshippedout some North Campus residents were still concemed. of state as part of a federally-approved regional radioactive waste disposal plan, this waste is kept on University premises. The new Waste Transfer Facility is also equipped to collect and prepare for shipping chemical wastes which are now kept for pick up around campus. Although this procedure is potentially danger- ous in case of spills, the University said these wastes will not be handledin the facilityuntilapprovals by state agencies are received. The majority of low-level radioactive waste, kept in barrels, is dry waste - laboratory gloves, glass, paper. Two-thirds of low- level radioactive waste decays within three years and is later disposed of normally. Despite the campaign by North Campus residents to close down the incinerator earlier in the year, the majority of the students questionedseemedeitherunawareoftheexistenceofanincinerator or its conversion into a Waste Transfer Facility. Moststudentsalsosaidthey wereunsureofthetypeofwasteand how it is disposed of in the new facility. i City council spares RAA from staff reports City councilmembers barely spared Recycle Ann Arbor (RAA) from pos- sibly having to close its doors. During their Monday meeting, City Council voted 5-4 to bailout the organization instead of accepting new bids for the city's recycling contract. Had the two absent members of the council voted, the sixth vote needed to pass the measure to accept new bids may have been obtained. Due to recent financial problems, the four opposing councilmembers felt that other ftrms could continue pro- cessing the city's recyclables at about one-third of RAA's cost. RAA has a $4.5 million, three-year processing contract with the city. Earlier in the year, Browning Ferris Industries claimed it could process city recyclables until 1994 for $10 a ton - substantially less than the $33 a ton RAA charges. Some conservative members of the council charged that RAA is receiving special treatment from the Democratic city leadership. 53 YEARS SERVING r, ANN &+ ARBOR FAMILIES DASCOLA STYLISTS on Liberty off State 668-9329 UNIVERSITY TOWERS The Beet or Campus Life! Furnished Apartments Great Location Corner i S. Uniersity S Forest 536 S. Foret Ave 761-2680 iCAouseN RECORDS IDPNEC 1140 South University CELEBRATE OUR - (Above Good-Time Charley's) Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Ph: 663-5800 OF - Hours: Mon.-Tburs. 9 a.m.-1O p.m. iFrL.-Sat. 9 a.m.-11p.m. Waner Bros. Sun. 11 a.m.- 8 p. WEAE A TICKET CENTER - YOUR CHOICE! STEVE WYNN TRUTH INC. DA Z.IiNC I'i, INCi 5ES THE VERY BEST OF ME CAN I GET WITH YOU TONIGHT? Nw"wi COME ALIVE -iii L- $1 ! lD C $ .9 nC IFT ME UP This Sale Price 7119192 asm Co CA O a O .O 'O O CD NJ 0 to a S2 H O O !d O O CA O O co y ma O CD t/f O CO CA O CD C03 O O Q co DAS EFX THEY WANT EFX JUSSUMMEN MIC CHtCKA tsen COASTs LOR AMOS NCLUDES SILENT ALL THESE YEARS CRUCIFY Sieve Wynn was in our Expose Yourself to New Music Program. Check our six new artists at our CD Listening Centre today. You'll like what you hear. GUARANTEED! THE BEST PRICES IN TOWN! How? We accept competitors' ads. Simply bring any ad to us, and we will match the specific price of any specific title on the spot! (Percentage discounts do not apply.) 8311d INN iUMOI u! SOON INN iUMOI u! saaPd IsOG iUmOl u! saOW tsaO iuMOI ul SOON ISM iuMOI Ul S83Pd is