Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 24, 1994 TAG: 9408240060
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: PORTOLA HILLS, CALIF. LENGTH: Short
Road crews are grading Glenn Ranch Road, a one-mile segment of which is to be paved over a base that includes 31,000 crushed toilets.
The road is the first major project since the county approved the crushed-porcelain base material in May.
Next is Coto de Caza Drive, which will require 62,000 toilets.
``That's a great way to recycle,'' said Ralph Fairman of Laguna Hills, who traded three 5-gallon toilets for 1.6-gallon models in June. His are among those crushed to 11/2-inch bits for Glenn Ranch.
Environmentalists like the program because it saves water, it keeps landfills from getting flush with toilets and it keeps gravel from being mined for road base.
About 5 percent of the road base is toilets. Contractors also grind used asphalt and other material.
About 42 percent of Glenn Ranch toilets come from Orange County water district programs managed by CTSI Corp. of Irvine. Most of the rest come from an aggressive recycling program by the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles.
- Orange County Register
by CNB