Recycling Success Brings $27,243 Grant To Jefferson

A solid year of recycling in New Jersey has lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Morris County towns, the county announced this week.

Morris County’s 39 municipalities will receive a total of $805,259 from a pool of $14.3 million in grants by the Department of Environmental Protection.

“Recycling is a way for all Morris County residents, and our schools and businesses, to make a personal hands-on difference in protecting our environment and enhancing the quality of life in our county and state,” said Morris County Freeholder Director Kathy DeFillippo.

The state’s recycling grant program is funded by a $3 per ton surcharge on trash disposed of at solid waste facilities across the state. Distribution of grants this year is based on the recycling successes local governments demonstrated in 2013.

The breakdown of grants, by town:

• Boonton: $10,109
• Boonton Twp.: $4,447
• Butler: $4,941
• Chatham: $34,911
• Chatham Twp.: $10,554
• Chester: $4,734
• Chester Twp.: $8,055
• Denville: $35,252
• Dover: $15,962
• East Hanover: $37,829
• Florham Park: $20,823
• Hanover: $31,692
• Harding: $3,173
• Jefferson: $27,243
• Kinnelon: $11,564
• Lincoln Park: $17,860
• Long Hill: $9,302
• Madison: $40,905
• Mendham: $7,506
• Mendham Twp.: $3,849
• Mine Hill: $2,178
• Montville: $59,560
• Morris Twp.: $37,871
• Morris Plains: $16,697
• Morristown: $37,512
• Mountain Lakes: $8,449
• Mount Arlington: $2,841
• Mount Olive: $36,149
• Netcong: $4,901
• Parsippany: $50,378
• Pequannock: $22,489
• Randolph: $36,382
• Riverdale: $14,343
• Rockaway: $13,386
• Rockaway Twp.: $56,534
• Roxbury: $26,762
• Victory Gardens: $1,222
• Washington Twp.: $19,263
• Wharton: $17,631

“New Jersey was the first state to make recycling mandatory, back in 1987,” said Mark Pedersen, DEP’s Assistant Commissioner for Site Remediation and Solid Waste Management. “The recycling culture is deeply ingrained in most of us and has become a daily habit in most of our homes, businesses, schools, hospitals and other institutions. Every time we pitch a bottle or can in the recycling bucket, we are pitching in to protect our environment.”