NEW SYSTEM SIMPLIFIES RECYCLING

That weekly recycling ritual of bundling newspapers and baling cardboard will be history for Ocean County residents in early 2008, with a new "all in one bin" collection system that will pick up all kinds of paper mixed together.
"Everything but your phone book, essentially, will be able to go in a single container," county Freeholder James F. Lacey said Monday in announcing a rollout of the new system. Private trash carters will begin picking up comingled paper in January, and the municipal public works departments in the county can start Feb. 4, Lacey said in a press conference at the county's northern recycling center.
Glass bottles, cans and plastic containers have been collected together for years, and "statistics show that if you put it in one container, make it easy, people will do more of it," Lacey said.
A study of the county's waste stream completed last August concluded that the average Ocean County household throws 20 percent of its waste paper in the garbage, said county solid waste coordinator John Haas. For every additional ton of paper that towns collect with this new system, they will save local taxpayers about $87 — by avoiding the $69.70-per-ton fee at the Ocean County Landfill in Manchester, and gaining the $17.28 per ton in revenue sharing from the county's sale of recycled materials, Haas said.
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