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P0QIFnF -4 Frida December 16 1 RECYCLE Basso hopes that Sunrise's Continued from B-1 companion garbage collection op- west of Thornton Road encour- !' "eration, Sunset Disposal Service, ,aged Sunrise officials to expand which serves unincorporated ,the service. areas in the county, can eventual- Of the 50 potential participants, ly take curbside recycling to Lin- 1 decided to take advantage of coin Village, the Country Club the service. Their buckets pro- area and Linden. uced 350 pounds of recyclables, Jim Walsh, general manager of -compared with a scant 121 - Stockton Scavengers, thinks his pounds of recyclables tossed into company has an admirable.neigh- the garbage cans by the 19 non- borhood collection service for re- ,participants. Crews dutifully cyclables in its"mobile buy back" sorted through their trash in the unit. It makes reguarly scheduled interest of research. stops throughout the firm's gar- "We considered the response bage collection area, buying alu- as excellent," said Gregory I Bas- minum cans, glass bottles, certain so,Sunrise vice president. plastic bottles and newspapers So excellent that the firm wid- from the public. ened the test area to serve anoth- ; The service started in October er 2,700 homes and now is ex- and will be adding parks to its panding throughout its service stops in the spring,Walsh said. area. �g- Providing two buckets each for 20,000 homes isn't going to be cheap. Basso estimates the cost at $100,000, plus another $100,000 or equipment to haul away the ecyclables. And that's not count- ing the three to five additional workers who will be hired. But Sunrise is"targeting for 100 percent participation," said Bas- so. He concedes that company mo- tives aren't entirely altruistic. The company thinks it can turn a profit and at the same time strike a blow for conservation of America's dwindling natural re- sources. "Do you know that a ton of re- cycled newpapers is equivalent to 17 trees?"Basso asked. "And that the energy produced by one recycled aluminum can run a TV set for four hours?" School children, going door-to- door in the interest of conserva- tion, have helped carry Sunrise's recycling message to north Stock- ton homeowners.