New Facebook page for New Jersey’s recycling community



Dear Friend of Recycling,



The Association of New Jersey Recyclers (ANJR) invites you to take a look and ‘like’ its new Facebook Page. The social media site is designed to keep you up to date with recycling news–and with ANJR activities and events.


It also offers a valuable platform on which you can share, with a wide audience, information and photos about your recycling business or your county or municipality’s recycling accomplishments.  

You also can find us at @ANJR2017 or by typing: ‘Association of New Jersey Recyclers’ into the search box at the top of your Facebook page.

Help us build the outreach of New Jersey’s recycling community by ‘liking’ our page and by sharing it with your colleagues and friends

And join in the fun by sending your news and photos to ANJR’s Facebook manager at: frankbrilljr@gmail.com 

Thanks for your time and support of recycling. 

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New plastics recycling plant to be built in Millville, NJ

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Joseph P. Smith reports for The Daily Journal:


MILLVILLE – A long vacant and vandalized factory that was the centerpiece of a glass industry that provided jobs for generations soon may be back in use in a new manufacturing venture employing several hundred workers.


Mayor Michael Santiago on Wednesday night signed a conditional agreement with investors who hope to rebuild the former Wheaton Glass Co. property at 200 G Street into a plastics re-manufacturing facility. New construction and renovation is expected to combine to create almost 1 million square feet of building space.


The four-member investors group, operating as Millville Plastics, hosted a dinner before a signing ceremony for a five-page memorandum of understanding with the city. The Daily Journal obtained the agreement on Thursday from the city.

  • The agreement authorizes the sale of the property for $50,000 pending further negotiations over the next 120 days.
  • The agreement also allows for “remediation, rehabilitation and/or demolition of existing improvements and construction of new improvements.” Drawings of the proposed facility were released.
  • The agreement also states that both sides are to settle on a long-term payment in lieu of taxes agreement, or “PILOT” agreement.
  • The city and Millville Plastics, specifically partner Anthony DeSantis, also agree to end litigation in federal bankruptcy court involving the city and the property’s last owner, GGI Properties LLC. GGI lost the property to the city in a foreclosure action for unpaid taxes.

The agreement also calls on the developer to create about 300 jobs.


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Environmentalist Dave Pringle exits NJ congressional race

Max Pizzaro reports for InsiderNJ:

Environmentalist Dave Pringle of Cranford is out of the CD7 Democratic Primary for Congress.

That leaves frontrunner Tom Malinowski of Rocky Hill, social worker Peter Jacob of Springfield and attorney Goutam Jois of Summit scrapping in the primary to take on U.S. Rep. Loenard Lance (R-7).

Or at least competing ahead of Wednesday’s final convention, which is for the line in Somerset.

Malinowski has won everything else.

Pringle’s full statement:

“I entered the Congressional race sparked by a discussion with family and friends, who were mourning my brother-in-law’s passing and asking why so few good people run for office or lose their way once they do.

“It’s one thing to know the answer to that question. It’s another to live it firsthand.

“While some things may have been different had I entered the race earlier, it is clear our political system is broken. At a time when the nation is clamoring for new voices, for women, for environmentalists, for people of color, they are the first people the system casts aside. I’ve always been a practical idealist but for now, decades of experience and good intentions don’t measure up against stacks of hundred dollar bills.

“We see easily at the very top — how the NRA controls votes and how money has become more important to the political process than even our children. Money controls virtually all decisions, even at the local level.

“Candidates are viewed almost exclusively through a fundraising prism. Whoever raises the most money is seen as the best candidate. Fundraising consumes up to 7 hours of a candidate’s day. We need public financing for campaigns and competitive races.

“Organizational politics confines candidate selection decisions to too few people in an opaque process. Our big D Democratic Party needs to be more small d democratic.

“The system includes too many people who value political expediency over sound public policy and loyalty to a cause or colleague.

“The system while broken, still has its good points and good people. Many Democrats are dedicated to the party’s ideals. The horror of Donald Trump and Leonard Lance’s policies has prompted thousands of people who were never politically active to engage. My fellow candidates have been mostly thoughtful, committed and dedicated to improving our nation. Each would be a significant improvement over the current representative. I’d especially like to thank Linda Weber for her campaign.

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“I’ve been inspired by the young people, moms and students who are standing up against gun violence and demanding meaningful gun control. I have been honored to meet student leaders from Parkland, Florida and to stand with my children KC, Ryan, and Megan, their friends, my wife Laurie and Moms Demand Action in this ongoing effort.

“Our children get it and are way ahead of Washington and Trenton.They know that without change, they face a future where they could die in their classroom or burn up from climate change. They’re no longer waiting on the adults, the children are now leading.

“I am suspending my campaign for the Seventh Congressional District seat but will continue to push issues important to our country’s future.

“There is great sweeping change going on across the nation. I will continue to be a part of it and will work with candidates who share my views on the need to: bring the country together, represent their districts, protect our communities and schools from the scourge of guns; safeguard our air and water; ensure fair wages; make healthcare a right; and guarantee equal treatment and equal pay for all.

“As I marched with my daughter Saturday, I thought how blessed we are as Americans and the enormity of the challenges we face, and I said to her we live in a great country but we have a lot of work to do. I am more committed than ever to doing that work.”

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Didn’t we already see this episode on ‘The Sopranos’?

Ted Sherman reports for The Star-Ledger:


Longshoreman Paul Moe Sr. was hardly ever at work.


The 66-year-old Port Elizabeth dockworker, who made $493,029 a year, was paid 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year–getting straight time, overtime and extra pay for holidays and weekends, authorities said.


However, investigators from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor said he couldn’t be found on the waterfront many days, and frequently was out on his boat in Atlantic Highlands, at the movies, at home or on vacation in Aruba.


Convicted of fraud and conspiracy in connection with the no-show job, he faced nearly four years in prison. But a federal judge in Newark on Monday, citing the ambiguity of the union contract and the failure of his own employer to take action against him, sentenced Moe to just 24 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden also allowed him to remain free on bail pending an appeal.


Despite his conviction, Moe was steadfast in court maintaining that he had done nothing wrong. “I can look myself in the mirror and I know I’m innocent,” he told the judge. “I never defrauded anyone.”


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Skyscraper-sized air purifier is scrubbing China’s dirty air


Denise Chow reports for NBC News
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It may look like just another giant smokestack, but a 200-foot tower in the central Chinese city of Xi’an was built to pull deadly pollutants from the air rather than add more. And preliminary research shows the tower — which some are calling the world’s largest air purifier — has cut air pollution significantly across a broad swath of the surrounding area.
Given those findings, the researchers behind the project say they hope to build an even taller air-purifying tower in Xi’an, and possibly in other cities around China.
“I like to tell my students that we don’t need to be medical doctors to save lives,” said Dr. David Pui, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota and one of the researchers. “If we can just reduce the air pollution in major metropolitan areas by 20 percent, for example, we can save tens of thousands of lives each year.”

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Comment deadline Friday for Delaware River fracking regs



Andrea Sears reports for Public News Service:


HARRISBURG, Pa. – The period for submitting written comments on the Delaware River Basin Commission’s draft natural-gas drilling regulations ends Friday

Environmental groups are enthusiastically supporting the commission’s proposal to ban all high-volume hydraulic fracturing in shale within the boundaries of the Delaware River watershed. But according to Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, they are adamantly opposed to draft regulations that would let gas and oil companies withdraw millions of gallons of Delaware watershed water for fracking in other locations, and allow the treatment, storage and disposal of fracking wastewater within the watershed.

“Fracking wastewater is so toxic that even the industry barely knows what to do with it. For the most part, they either re-frack or they send it off to places where they try to inject it into the ground to try to hide it away,” she says.

The Commission says the new rule actually would tighten restrictions on bringing fracking waste into the watershed. Help in filing written comments is available through the Delaware Riverkeeper website.



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