Do the materials received by the recycling trucks in Lake Charles actually go to a recycling center?  If there is really a recycling center, where is it and what is its name? LC recycling information indicates some recycled materials need to be separated, but nothing is separated at the trucks. Bags and boxes are thrown together into the truck and then crushed as happens with city household garbage. Is separating items necessary?

The city’s Public Works Department contracts with Waste Management to handle materials collected through the City’s Green Truck and Drop-Off Center Recycling Program, said Katie Harrington, public information officer for the city of Lake Charles.

When residents drop materials off at the collection points, they do not need to sort them, she said.

“All items are collected and dropped off once a week at Waste Management,” Harrington said. “Waste Management personnel take the items to their recycling center in Beaumont, Texas. It is at this center that items are then separated and processed.”

Harrington said the city accepts, from residential customers only, a variety of items — including bagged aluminum and tin cans, paper items, cell phones, used ink/laser cartridges and cardboard boxes.

Limited amounts of plastics (No. 1 and 2) are also accepted, she said.

Game jersey rules

I would like to know why the McNeese State University’s women’s basketball team plays in uniforms that are gray and light blue in color as they did in their game recently against University of Louisiana Monroe. I thought McNeese’s colors were blue and gold.

Per NCAA rules, home teams wear light-colored jerseys and visitors wear dark-colored jerseys, said Pam LaFosse, assistant sports information director at McNeese State University.

LaFosse serves as the primary contact for Cowgirls volleyball, women’s basketball, softball and women’s tennis teams while helping with football, women’s soccer and men’s basketball.

This rule may be altered by mutual consent of the competing institutions as long as the color of the shirts are still contrasting. Final authority on contrasting shirts rests with the Referee.

According to the NCAA supplemental apparel guide for women’s basketball, game jerseys must be a single solid color and are permitted to have a “tonal shift design” of no more that 15 percent of the neutral zone’s color. A tonal shift is a change in the original color of the neutral zone that remains a shade of that color.

The number featured on the jersey must be a single solid color that distinctly contrasts the neutral zone in color and shade.

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