New Jersey Could Face Disposal Crisis without Additional Recycling

Date: June 16, 2005

Source: News Room

Guy Watson, head of New Jersey's Bureau of Recycling and Planning, has said that the state faces a solid waste disposal crisis within ten years if it cannot improve its recycling rate. The state generated 19 million tons of waste in 2003, and the bureau projects that amount will grow to 33 million tons by 2015, an amount the state's facilities cannot handle. The state currently recycles about 33 percent of its waste; Watson seeks to increase that to 50 percent.
More information: www.state.nj.us/dep/dshw/recycle.

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