by Ambreen Ali - VillageGreenNJ.com | Feb 8, 2020 | Essex, New Jersey, Sustainable Business
Rachel Garcia, owner of the Dry Goods Refillery BYOC – as in, bring your own container, is all the buzz in Maplewood these days. A third business aimed at reducing packaging waste is opening its doors this month: Dry Goods Refillery, which kicks off its soft...
by Bill Barlow - Cape May County Herald | Feb 4, 2020 | Cape May, New Jersey, Waste
Bales of separated material, which have to meet a number of specifications before they can be accepted by a recycling firm, are moved at the county’s recycling facility. Bill Barlow The idea was simple and inviting. All those shampoo bottles, takeout containers and...
by Ambreen Ali - VillageGreenNJ.com | Jan 29, 2020 | Essex, New Jersey, Waste
Photo by Ambreen Ali Local recycling companies have become more strict about what kinds of plastic they are willing to take, making conservation the absolute best way to reduce household waste. But there are still ways to recycle lower-grade plastics with area...
by Bill Barlow - Cape May County Herald | Jan 28, 2020 | Cape May, New Jersey, Waste
Lyn Crumbock, Cape May County’s recycling coordinator, believes it makes sense to keep the county’s recycling program going to help keep material out of the landfill. Bill Barlow WOODBINE – Picture waking up in the morning. Imagine receiving a trash bag, into...
by Vernon Ogrodnek - The Press of Atlantic City | Dec 31, 2019 | Atlantic, New Jersey, Video, Waste
SOMERS POINT — It sounded like a great idea at the time: ban all single-use plastic bags. Blamed for killing and maiming sea life and clogging landfills, plastic bags have many detractors. Americans use 100 billion of them a year, with only 1% of those bags being...
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