16 April 2001

Plainsboro, New Jersey -- the Fifth Annual Earth Week Poster Contest and Pollution Prevention Awareness Day at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is scheduled for Thursday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will feature an awards program for poster contest winners, as well as hands-on science demonstrations, guest speakers, and pollution prevention displays. About 250 area students who participated in the poster contest are expected to attend the event.

From 9 a.m. to noon, PPPL and external exhibitors will have displays and demonstrations in the Laboratory's Lyman Spitzer Building Lobby and along the entrance. At 10:30 a.m., Marcal Paper Mills Vice President Peter Marcalus will give a presentation, "Closing the Recycling Loop with Marcal," in PPPL's Melvin B. Gottlieb Auditorium. Marcal produces paper products from recyclable materials. This will be followed by a talk, "Fusion in the New Century," by PPPL Director Rob Goldston at 11:15 a.m. and by a poster contest awards presentation at 12:15 p.m.

PPPL received more than 380 poster entries from students from eight area schools. Entries are posted around the Laboratory in celebration of pollution prevention. The participating schools are the Antheil Elementary School in Ewing; Corpus Christi School in Willingboro; Grace N. Rogers School in East Windsor; Thomas Grove Middle School in West Windsor; Parkway Elementary School in Ewing; Toll Gate Grammar School in Pennington; Timberlane Middle School in Pennington; and Terrill Middle School in Scotch Plains. The Laboratory also sponsored a poster contest for children of PPPL staff. Dozens of prizes donated by area businesses will be awarded to the winners.

In addition to PPPL, exhibitors include Eurest Dining Services, Executive Business Products, FMC Corporation's Environmental Control Department and Environmental Response Unit, Marcal Paper Mills, Inc., Mercer County Improvement Authority, and Waste Management, Inc.

PPPL, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is a collaborative national center for science and innovation leading to an attractive fusion energy source.

Representatives of the media are invited to attend the Earth Week Poster Contest and Pollution Prevention Awareness Day at PPPL. The Laboratory is on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus off U.S. Route 1 in Plainsboro and not on the University's main campus in Princeton.

For further information, please contact:

Anthony R. DeMeo
Head
Information Services
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
(609) 243-2755
ademeo@pppl.gov

Patricia Wieser
Information Services
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
(609) 243-2757
pwieser@pppl.gov