Ocean County to return $271K in recycling funds
THE PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY
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Continued from A8 fall when mowing is common. Rebozo is working with towns to limit mowing both during the flowering seasons and to leave an 8-foot safety buffer for traffic. More often, towns cut the grass right to the forest edge, he said. While New Jersey protects the habitat of many of its endangered animals, it typically does not offer the same protections to its rarest plants, Rebozo said. DeVito said education alone isn’t going to save Pinelands species, especially when more people are enjoying off-road activities in the state’s forests. None of the plants at risk of disappearing are likely to provide any tangible human benefit such as a cure for disease. Even paving over protected lands would have negligible human consequences, he said. “People have been devastating landscapes for centuries,” DeVito said.
“People have been devastating landscapes for centuries.” EMILE DEVITO N.J. Conservation Foundation
“The American prairie is virtually gone. That doesn’t mean you can’t live in Lincoln, Nebraska. “It’s putting an unreasonable burden on the conservation community to make the individual care about something so low on the totem pole,” he said. Still, many people do care and are doing what they can to make a difference. Rosanne Bornholdt, 75, and her husband, John, support Pinelands research. The retired couple from Burlington County bought some of the snake transmitters. “It’s my favorite snake,” Bornholdt said, eager to hold one of the gentle animals. “They’re beautiful and worth preserving because they’re beautiful,” she said. Contact: 609-463-6712 [email protected] Twitter @ACPressMiller
Ocean County to return $271K in recycling funds The Ocean County freeholders will return $271,000 in proceeds from recycled material to municipalities under the Ocean County Recycling Revenue Sharing Program. Under the program, towns are provided a portion of recycling revenue based on the amount recycled and the market price of the material, according to a release by the county. During the second half of 2015, the county
collected 42,016 tons of recyclables from its municipalities. The payout for the period was $6.45 per ton. “Recycling in Ocean County continues to provide a host of environmental and economic benefits,” Freeholder Gerry P. Little said. “Since we began this program in 1995, we have returned more than $15 million to our towns.” — John DeRosier
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Continued from A8 fall when mowing is common. Rebozo is working with towns to limit mowing both during the flowering seasons and to leave an 8-foot safety buffer for traffic. More often, towns cut the grass right to the forest edge, he said. While New Jersey protects the habitat of many of its endangered animals, it typically does not offer the same protections to its rarest plants, Rebozo said. DeVito said education alone isn’t going to save Pinelands species, especially when more people are enjoying off-road activities in the state’s forests. None of the plants at risk of disappearing are likely to provide any tangible human benefit such as a cure for disease. Even paving over protected lands would have negligible human consequences, he said. “People have been devastating landscapes for centuries,” DeVito said.
“People have been devastating landscapes for centuries.” EMILE DEVITO N.J. Conservation Foundation
“The American prairie is virtually gone. That doesn’t mean you can’t live in Lincoln, Nebraska. “It’s putting an unreasonable burden on the conservation community to make the individual care about something so low on the totem pole,” he said. Still, many people do care and are doing what they can to make a difference. Rosanne Bornholdt, 75, and her husband, John, support Pinelands research. The retired couple from Burlington County bought some of the snake transmitters. “It’s my favorite snake,” Bornholdt said, eager to hold one of the gentle animals. “They’re beautiful and worth preserving because they’re beautiful,” she said. Contact: 609-463-6712 [email protected] Twitter @ACPressMiller
Ocean County to return $271K in recycling funds The Ocean County freeholders will return $271,000 in proceeds from recycled material to municipalities under the Ocean County Recycling Revenue Sharing Program. Under the program, towns are provided a portion of recycling revenue based on the amount recycled and the market price of the material, according to a release by the county. During the second half of 2015, the county
collected 42,016 tons of recyclables from its municipalities. The payout for the period was $6.45 per ton. “Recycling in Ocean County continues to provide a host of environmental and economic benefits,” Freeholder Gerry P. Little said. “Since we began this program in 1995, we have returned more than $15 million to our towns.” — John DeRosier
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SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2016 • A9
