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darrensager
Citizen
Username: Darrensager
Post Number: 326
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 12:34 pm: | 
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Does anyone know if the recycling center on Boyden takes junk mail? I know they take cardboard, newspaper, and phone books. What about all the things that can be recycled that come in the mail? |
optimyst
Citizen
Username: Optimyst
Post Number: 144
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 12:48 pm: |
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Yes, at the center and curbside, too.
http://maplewoodonline.com/recycling/dropoff.php |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 944
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 1:12 pm: |
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Yes, junk mail, newspaper, telephone books, cardboard, glass, plastic, household batteries....
The weekday hours are 9 - 3, I believe. Saturdays, 9 - 12. |
darrensager
Citizen
Username: Darrensager
Post Number: 327
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 1:50 pm: |
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thank you very much! |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12643
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 11:11 pm: |
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We collect tons of paper every day, from mail to old school work to newspapers, to whatever else. By the time recycling day comes around, we often fill a large garbage pail, and sometimes more. I see we collect more paper than most neighbors. The collectors come and take it without complaint on recycling days. There are two every month in Maplewood.
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Eponymous
Citizen
Username: Eponymous
Post Number: 113
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 9:18 am: |
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Tom,
Indeed. Same with glass.
Don't the instructions we get in the mail from the town still say that we're supposed to sort this? |
mickey
Citizen
Username: Mickey
Post Number: 407
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 9:52 am: |
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I sort newspaper separately from colored paper/magazines/junk mail, but on recycling days I see the guys throw both in the same truck. |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2233
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 11:54 am: |
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since I recycle my plastics, I just take everything to the Maplewood center myself, newspapers minus the colored inserts are supposed to be tied together for recycling, plastics marked 1 & 2, green glass, clear glass, brown glass, no plate glass. Aluminum and tin containers separate, scrap paper and corrugated cardboard together. Batteries seperated by sizes.
car oil poured into on site container. Car tires can be recycled for a one dollar fee, pay the fee at Town Hall, get your tire certificate (I guess you slap the certificate on the tire and drop it off, though I'm not sure where). there is a drop of location for Goodwill also.
Let's not forget that one can drop off electronic items for recycling also, and sometimes you may want to pick some electronics up also, after all you can always bring them back. |
Shawna
Citizen
Username: Lucies_mom
Post Number: 103
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 12:22 pm: |
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you need to pick up a middle for your horses, Monster.
Anyway, where on Boyden is the Recycling plant and is it the same gang that picks up the recycling at the house?
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sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 3177
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 1:40 pm: |
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Can anyone explain what the point is of tying up the newspapers? I would think that the twine would contaminate the paper in the subsequent processing.
I actually never tie mine ... I do have them in a separate bin from the other paper but, as mickey observed, it seems that the pickup crew always throws both into the same truck. |
sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 3178
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 1:45 pm: |
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The Recycling Center is near the intersection with Newark Way ... from Springfield Avenue headed toward Irvington, turn right on Boyden Avenue and pass Seth Boyden School (on the left) and the entrance to the Recycling Center/Public Works will be on your right just where the road starts to curve to the left.
It is not the same gang that does the curbside pickup. The recycling center itself is run by the Public Works department of the Township. The curbside pickups are done by Waste Management. (And possibly the Occupational Center, depending upon which type of item, but I'm not sure whether they are still involved or not. I know that they used to pick up the glass and cans.) |
Eponymous
Citizen
Username: Eponymous
Post Number: 114
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 4:06 pm: |
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The crews throw all the glass in together, and all the paper. Sorting is pointless, yet the instructions say to do this. We put our paper into - surprise - paper bags!
Sophisticated glass-separation plants sort the glass mechanically (cool lasers and conveyer belts). |
eb1154
Citizen
Username: Eb1154
Post Number: 457
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:19 pm: |
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Papers need to be tied to prevent them from blowing around, not only on your street but at the Recycling Center. Glass is sorted by color and dropped off at the center by the contractor. Waste Management picks up the paper and cardboard and Harrington Recycling subs the glass and metals.
Electronics can be dropped off but not picked up. Taking anything from the Recycling Center is considered stealing. The computers dropped at the center could contain someone's personal information on it. Therefore, we do no allow anything to be taken from the center. It does happen, but if we catch someone we will stop them.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to call me @973-762-1175. Or e-mail me at supervisor@twp.maplewood.nj.us
Eric Burbank |
Eponymous
Citizen
Username: Eponymous
Post Number: 119
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:42 pm: |
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Eric,
Thanks for the posting.
I believe that the last recycling brochure from the town that I saw still included the instructions about sorting glass and paper, even though the pick-up guys very definitely throw all of it in together, and you describe in more detail how the collectors do a bunch of sorting. (The on-line brochure certainly talks about sorting, but it also says that there's curb-side pick-up of plastics.)
Any chance we'll see the instructions change to reflect actual practice? |
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