NJ Towns Will Receive Recycling Grants, Promoting Local Recycling Efforts
NEW JERSEY (CBS) — New Jersey towns will get a $14.3 million towards enhancing and promoting recycling efforts.
Each year, state municipalities must pay $3-per-ton on waste they throw into landfills.
The money is collected by the state and redistributed back into the communities.
"The grants are given to communities who must then use the money for programs that promote or enhance local recycling efforts," said Caryn Shinske, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Environmental Protection.
"Coordinating and operating tire recycling days, providing recycling receptacles throughout communities, maintaining leaf composting, running advertising or promotional campaigns."
This year's grants are based on 2014 numbers: where the recycling rate was about 41 percent, the goal is to get that number to 50 percent, across the state.