Rick Slomka

"... of by local residents and mulched Into its new form in a southeast city factory. “All of a sudden lt appears there's a great market for waste paper,” says Rick Slomka, manager of LG. Machine and Fibers Ltd., the city's only paper recycling centre. "There was a time when there was no arket at all. But now we're going through a ..."

"... materials. The company pays $11 a ton for newspapers, telephone books and ollier scrap paper, and $8 a ton for cardboard. It will accept any size load, and manager Rick Slomka said he could probably accept all thc wasle paper collected in Calgary if present market conditions continue. “The recycling business is highly cyclical, and wc were hurt pretty badly by ..."

"... lo be almost as rare lo I. G. Paper Recycling, which can't obtain enough old newsprint to meet demand. Demand lor newspapers to recycle into cellulose insulation has forced Rick Slomka, manager of Ihe company, fo increase his firm's prices by 50 per cent lo 1.5 cents per pound. "The demand is fantastic," Slomka says. His firm, the only Calgary company dealing in old newsprint, has stopped shipments of bundled newspapers to outof town customers. A severe shortage of recycled newspapers is facing all ..."

"... drink containing a mixture of white wine, fruit juice and sparkling mineral water. ‘Tt was dreamed up three years ago by a couple of beer salesmen in California,” reports Rick Slomka, general manager of Chateau Gai for the Prairies. “They were playing around, trying different beverage mixtures in their garage and came up with this one. They now have the winery ..."