Comments on: A Green Prophet Tours His Hometown Waste Streams

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:45:57 +0000

Question, did you find out how the computers and monitors are recycled? I live in North Plainfield and been considering giving my old computer for recycling but I wasn’t sure if they audited their recyclers like Dell does. What I found out according to a January/February 2008 edition of Mother Jones magazine is that most computers when their recycled wind up going to plants in China where the re-usable parts are taken out by workers and the rest disgarded. I’m not sure how much it actually matters in terms of recycling but could you let me know? Thanks

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:08:12 +0000

How interesting, thank you! Sure wish the Courier News (local paper, c-n.com) had articles like this — in fact I suggest you freelance this article to them or the Star Ledger if you like. Make sure they pay you. I live in Somerset County and am glad to learn all the info you report here. I admire Melissa, the recycling coordinator, for her good and transparent work — but suggest that she communicate those important facts — unscrew tops off pop bottles, don’t include kitty litter or plastic bags because they hurt the program, etc. — to residents. Already other info is sent and published by the department, it would be easy enough to communicate this as well. Of course it would be easier to sort and instruct if there were more catagories of plastic, etc. so that people could just leave out the “Number 8 Plastic” — or better, find actual markets for all kinds of waste. (Or even better, not buy things that can’t be recycled).

By: greenprophet

greenprophet — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:11:02 +0000

A Green Prophet Tours His Hometown Waste Streams http://tinyurl.com/brm44x