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Laptop Battery It's automatic for many people: Toss the empty glass bottle in a recycling bin and not the trash can. But public interest in recycling appears to be waning, as there's less state money to pay for educational and advertising programs that helped grow the recycling movement that began in the early 1990s.

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Thinkpad Toss in a decline in state funds for recycling enforcement and collection programs, and there's a corresponding drop in how much New Jersey is recycling, according to some environmental groups and county and municipal officials.

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Microsoft New Jersey's recycling rate dropped for three consecutive years before improving slightly to 54.2 percent in 2001, the last year statistics are available from the state Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP.

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Laptop Computers The state never has achieved the 65 percent recycling goal it set by the end of 2000. The statewide recycling rates started dropping in 1998. That's the year after recycling funds left over from a lapsed litter tax - which helped finance a variety of recycling programs - ran out.

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Laptop Computer "You always have to educate people," said Deena Mattola, executive director of the New Jersey Public Research Interest Group. "I don't think we're educating people anymore."

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Desktop Computer The Cape May County Mu-nicipal Utilities Authority has all but abandoned its mass-media recycling advertisements, relying instead on less expensive fliers and hand outs, said Bridget O'Connor, who oversees the authority's recycling programs.

Notebooks Even the most basic recycling efforts are endangered.

Lenovo For instance, the loss of thousands of dollars annually for recycling efforts in Middle Township, Cape May County, will end the township's program of giving free recycling cans to new residents, or as replacements for broken cans.

Hard Drive "We're down to 200 cans," said Middle Township Administrator James Alexis. "When they go, that's it. We expect that to happen by the end of November."

Travelstar County and municipal officials said they don't expect their situation to improve soon. They said state Treasury officials are forecasting lean budgets for the next few years.

Gateway Affordable, out-of-state landfill costs also make it more attractive for many businesses to skip sometimes-cumbersome recycling efforts in New Jersey in favor of having out-of-state companies do the work for them, the officials contend.

Laptop Parts What's needed, they said, is a whole rethinking of recycling efforts.

Software "I think those of us who are in this business need to work in a more coordinated, effective, and less expensive way," Atlantic County Utilities Authority President Richard Dovey said.

Hard Drives While DEP officials agree that less funding is hurting recycling programs, they also said there are other factors involved.

Electronics More cans and bottles of soda, water and other beverages are consumed outside the home and are tossed into trashcans with nonrecyclable materials, said Guy Watson, chief of the DEP's Bureau of Recycling and Planning.

Canon People also are hesitant to toss tons of junk mail with perceived personal information into recycling cans for fear that information could be retrieved and used by someone else, he said.

Desktop Pc Further, Watson said, New Jersey suffers from having a large transient population that's not familiar with recycling regulations.

Desktop Computers Local and county recycling efforts were aided for years by what was called a litter tax - a $1.50-a-ton fee tacked onto landfill tipping fees.

Think Pad Forty percent of the $12 million to $14 million the tax raised annually was distributed to municipal recycling programs based on the success of each program.

Repair The tax expired at the end of 1996, although there was enough money left over to provide some funding in 1997.

Data Recovery Gov. James E. McGreevey signed legislation last year that established a form of litter tax through the state Clean Communities funding. The amount dedicated to recycling projects is capped at $4 million a year.

Cisco That's still too little to help, county and municipal officials said.

Keyboard Many municipalities no longer have full-time recycling enforcement or coordination staff, opting instead to hand those duties over to employees who already are busy with other work, according to O'Connor.

Monitor Middle Township's trash enforcement is done on a limited basis through its public works staff, Alexis said.

Desktop Watson said there might be some help in the future, as the DEP is recommending the state considering a new levy to replace the old $1.50-a-ton litter tax.

Infosys Instead of taxing landfills and other trash-handling facilities, the tax would be imposed on trash-hauling firms, he said. That would allow the state to earn money on the estimated 1 million tons of trash brought into New Jersey from, primarily, New York.

Refurbished Laptops Trash haulers would pass the expense on to customers, either directly or through trash-hauling contracts with municipalities, Watson said.

Wipro New Jersey Environmental Federation President Amy Goldsmith said that all brings the recycling effort back to a simple premise.

Lap Top "It's the money," she said. "Money does matter."

Refurbished By Thomas Barlas
The Press of Atlantic City - 10/6/2003

Topic: Recycling

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