press release October 15, 2014
TRENTON – The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is honoring the state\’s recycling leaders as part the 34th Annual Recycling Symposium and Awards ceremony today at Jumping Brook Country Club in Neptune.
Among the honorees are a Middlesex County town that has executed an automated trash collection and single-stream recycling program, a non-profit\’s program to train developmentally disabled students proper disposal of unwanted electronics and a Rutgers\’ polymer engineer whose inventions have promoted plastics recycling.
Also recognized today are a group of grade-school students from across the state for their poems about recycling. The annual event is co-sponsored by the DEP and the Association of New Jersey Recyclers.
\”The Christie Administration is proud of these recycling leaders for their important efforts and what they do to expand recycling efforts and awareness,\” said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. \”Recycling is a civic duty that gets everyone actively involved in protecting our environment and conserving our natural resources.\”
In 1987, New Jersey became the first state to require recycling with the passage of the New Jersey Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act. The Christie Administration continues to develop policies to boost current recycling rates and adapt recycling strategies to match today\’s lifestyles. As part of that effort, DEP