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Recycling for Pay

NEW HAVEN. Conn.--In a conservation effort. Yale last week started paying six students of Yale Recycling, a formerly all-volunteer group, to collect old news papers for recycling. "The Yale Daily News reported last week.

Yale Recycling collects between two and five tons of old papers each week and sells them to a private company for recycling at six dollars per ton a group spokesman said. The group retains 20 percent of the income, and its income this year will be used to pay for new recycling barrels and publicity, he added. The rest of the income will go to the university to make up part of the student's wages, the Yale Daily News reported last week.

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