THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, October 3, 1994                TAG: 9410030071
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                         LENGTH: Short :   30 lines

RECYCLING MAY FORESHADOW A JOB BOOM, GROUP SAYS

Recycling is moving from its original role in waste disposal to becoming a preferred method of getting the maximum return from a shrinking supply of virgin resources, says a new study by a conservation group.

It is part of a coming economic change in which ``the biggest payoff may eventually be in the most endangered and precious of all assets: jobs,'' said the Worldwatch Institute, in a report titled ``The Next Efficiency Revolution.''

The revolution is based on harnessing human ingenuity and efforts to reduce consumption of natural resources and energy through reuse of wastes and innovative design, according to authors John E. Young and Aaron Sachs.

Steel, packaging, timber and other resource-based industries are resisting, they said. But Worldwatch predicted the revolution will come from the combined political pressure of environmentalists, taxpayers and rural and urban communities distressed by unemployment, ``downsized'' industries and floods of waste.

KEYWORDS: RECYCLING JOBS by CNB