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the logistiecs that go into taking 400 tons of paper out of the existing waste stream and reâ€"routing it into a completely separate system, says Mutual‘s premises executive Mac McCarthy. "Despite the amount of coâ€"ordination and education required to get the program off the ground, I‘m confident that, based on our experience with the bottles and cans, our paper recycling effort will be equally successful. McCarthy says the key to the company‘s waste management program has been employee involvement and commitment â€" close to 100 volunteers help to make the program work. In addition, all staff are being supplied with individual paper colâ€" lectors to assist them in separating fine paper from the general waste stream. John Dinner, Mutual‘s external relations manager and member of the company‘s waste management committee, says in addition to the individual paper collection containers, more than 100 large bins are located throughout the building into which all collected paper is depouto; for collecâ€" tion each week. _ Tid Biz mentefl"u'trep"ennuafumweeu:fihrji challenge in terms of coâ€"ordinating all of PAGE A24 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990 is becoming a leader at doing "business for a better environment". The Mutual Group marked Earth Day with the launghiof a paper recycling proâ€" gram that will substantially reduce the approximately 400 tons of fine paper that is otherwise sent to landfill sites each year. Utilizing a system of blue barrels throughout its head office complex, the paper recycling effort marks the second phase of a larger waste management effort. On Valentines Day, "Mutualists" were asked to put their hearts into a bottle and can recycling program, through which more than 3,600 bottles and cans are collected and sent to a recycling depot each Business Week â€" ©>> Doing business for a better environment the recyclers, and big buisness is no exception. In Waterloo, The Mutual Group "I'bo_guperupectofoqrmmup- New music store opens in Waterioo HMV Music Stores, Canada‘s newest music retail AFPA represents 70 Albertaâ€"based forestry compaâ€" e Mempbars melude puip sn payer. prapibrerd and AFPA appoints Waterioo public affairs director Michael Voisin of Waterlco has been appointed director of public affairs for the Alberta Forest upmm' ion (AFPA), an Edmonton, Alta. organization. Voisin is responsible for the association‘s w affairs issues management, was previously manager of corporate affairs BF Goodrich Canada Inc. in Waterloo. While in Waterloo, Voisin was also a member of the Waterioo Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, a former president of the Kâ€"W Jaycees, and involved with mdhmmdndm;flm KW Octoberfest, City of Waterloo Committee, Western Ontaric Newspaper Awards, and the United Virtually everyone is joining the ranks of e recyclers, and big buisness is no mmmmmmfi)mmmmmmm company‘s Earth Day launch of its fine paper recycling program. median increases to $61,031. _ _ Mey y coubmecediinnzi A e wn mt pegsece . s iffect untll June 90. 1908 the conteact covers 269 Tessimse nc members for u.hm academic year: lecturer, WLU board ratifies agreement with faculty The board of governors at Wilfrid Laurier Universi ratified a tentative agreement on a first contract wil the university‘s faculty association at its rece; chain, opened the largest music store in the Kâ€"W area earlier this month. The 4,200â€"squareâ€"foot site is located at 150 University Ave. in Waterloo. HMV president Paul Alofs feels that "the Kitchenerâ€" Wmhomkultlshnhefimnficlhm are looking for." HMV stores feature inâ€"store listening booths to allow customers to sample music before buying, a full range of stock categories to suit product .a seminar, important new | Waterloo business and the community? The Chronicle : wants tohear from you. off information for Tid Bis ‘ at our office during regular business hours or mail Spath jointly announced aâ€" to spend up to $1 mmhmmhmwmm temberg dates back to a 1987 Memorandum of um.mowdmmm Peterson and Badenâ€"Wurttemberg Premier Lothat mfl.mmfwhudomfiondflu state of Badenâ€"Wurttemberg. Amdflm:dbymmum berg Minister of ic Affairs, SME (Smallâ€"Mediâ€" mwmfl'l%fl-mm. vifihddnUnivmafw campus last month tomdv::th of the Waterloo research team, temberg dates to a 1987 Memorandum of A principal investigator with the Inf: + nology Research Centre at the University of Waterloo is heading up a $440,000 joint research project with a West German institute as part of a coâ€"omerative ITRC leads Ontarioâ€"German Doj "We operate our company on two core values â€" integrity and concern for people," Dinner says. "Where we‘re concerned for people,we’mgoinftobemmdfwthe environment. So I think our waste manâ€" agement program is in keepingwith those Innddifiontotlnp?ndbotdumd cans programs, the Mutual has adopted other environmentally initiatives such as removing ing or recycling all cardboard, scrap wood, leaves and sawdust; recycling 2,000 old telephone books, giving leftover cafeteria food to a local live stock farmer for feed, and paper towels made from recycled "Several staff members approached manâ€" agement about starting a recycling progâ€" am, and some departments were operating their own programs before we began recycling on a companyâ€"wide basis." that pays for recycled materials by welght to give employees tangible incentive. But ough without the ReT Clz _ "Staff awareness is quite high," he says. ISC Recycling of Toronto provides the blue bins and the pickâ€"up service free of charge, and then turns a profit on the fine paper recycled. Dinner says the company considered going to a recycling company ng mrogram, oo know thik we wom program, we we :my be recycling paper as well," Dinner say. "But it‘s a much more compliâ€" wdmdl’wonething‘,mwm an a paper to manage. there‘s a lot of confidential information contained on the paper that we would normally shred, and we had to ensure that confidentiality would be maintained. That took some time and research to find the right process," about a new business, a new ind e woul ~well," compliâ€"