Recycling is legally required. New Jersey's Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act (N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.11 et seq.) makes recycling mandatory for all residents, businesses, and institutions. Each Burlington County municipality adopts an ordinance requiring residents to source-separate designated recyclables.
Under the New Jersey Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.11 et seq. (effective April 20, 1987), recycling is mandatory statewide. N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.16 directs that each municipality's governing body "shall adopt an ordinance which requires persons generating municipal solid waste... to source separate from the municipal solid waste stream, in addition to leaves," the designated recyclable materials. Burlington County's regional recycling program is funded by the Board of County Commissioners and operated by the Occupational Training Center (OTC) of Burlington County; the county uses single-stream recycling, so accepted paper, cartons, cans, glass, and eligible plastics go in one container. The county's disposal side runs the Resource Recovery Complex. The precise material list, container type, and collection schedule are
Failing to source-separate designated recyclables is enforceable under the municipal recycling ordinance each town must adopt, with warnings and escalating municipal-court fines. The state act obligates every municipality to enforce mandatory recycling within its borders.
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