If successful, the project will also show how plastic recycling can reduce a state's solid waste disposal problems.Ĭollection of the waste plastics will be up to the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR), to which recycling is no stranger. According to the governor, the new public/private sector partnership will test the viability of reprocessing plastics into usable highway construction and maintenance products. Thompson announced a plastics recycling development partnership between the state and the DuPont Company. The plastic recycling dilemma may have moved a step closer to resolution in March when Gov. Plastics currently comprise nearly a quarter of Illinois' discarded waste volume and are helping to clog the state's dwindling number of landfills. But plastics have proven to be a tougher recycling nut to crack.

State and DuPont form plastic partnershipĪluminum cans can be recycled so can glass and newspapers. The SBE has begun an extensive nationwide search for Sanders' successor, which it hopes to name by October 1. Leininger joined the board in 1976 as assistant superintendent for governmental and community relations, and from 1979-87 he served as executive assistant to the state superintendent. Replacing Sanders as interim school superintendent is State Board of Education (SBE) chief of staff C. More than anything else, that's why I went to Nevada, and that's also why I came to Illinois.' According to Sanders: 'I have worked all my life in a profession that people are in not because of financial reward but because we have a deep sense of responsibility to the education of children and we like to feel that we are making a difference. At that time he was serving as Nevada's superintendent of public instruction, a post he held for six years.īucking the current trend to flee public service for the greener salaries of the private sector, Sanders is taking a considerable cut in pay to accept the federal post. Sanders was seriously considered for the top spot at the federal education agency in 1985 when he opted instead for Illinois' top job in education. Sanders' appointment must be confirmed by the U.S.

Ted Sanders, who has directed Illinois' education efforts since 1985, was tapped by President George Bush on March 10 as his choice for under secretary of education. Illinois' top man in education is leaving to take the No.

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