I was invited to testify at the Senate Environment and Energy Committee on February 9. The topic? Electronics Waste Recycling (e-waste). New Jersey passed a comprehensive electronics waste recycling law in 2009 that was designed to take dangerous CRT’s out of the waste stream and guarantee that they be recycled. The law worked just fine […]
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is trying to brand it’s logos for sale on items to be sold at all turnpike and parkway rest areas. Hey, why not. It is a harmless marketing of an icon. However, can they do right by this. Specifically, will they sell items that are sustainably made from recycled materials? […]
LEED Certified Building Consulting » LEED Certification Projects LEED Certification Project: PSE&G Jersey City CSC Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a […]
Lawrence Township will soon become the second town to begin curbside collection of organics for composting. Congratulations on becoming the second town in NJ to realize that we should be treating assets for what they are: A valuable raw material that can be used to make new and useful products. In this case, compost. Unfortunately, […]
UPDATE 01/28/2015: The two leading industry publications in the recycling and composting industries, Resource Recycling and BioCycle, have issued a joint statement that the article paints an incomplete picture of the state of municipal solid waste (MSW) management in the U.S. in 2015. Excerpts from NY Times article are followed by facts and figures that […]