Talking Trash
Twenty years ago, New Jersey became the first state to require mandatory recycling and by 1997 recycled an average 67.1 percent of the glass, metal, plastic and paper that used to wind up in garbage dumps. Now that number is down to 34.3 percent.
Care to guess which zip codes fail to observe mandatory recycling? Care to guess why there’s less recycling according to state officials? The “absence of state and local aid” and the “lack of public education” are the reasons “New Jersey ranks is in the middle of the recycling barrel”.
Not to worry. Democrats have a plan. “We must explore every legislative, regulatory and economic tool available to meet the challenge of boosting our recycling rate.” In other words,” we’ve hit on a great excuse to take more of your money”. State bureaucrats want to impose a new garbage tax to raise $650 million.
Care to guess which zip codes fail to observe mandatory recycling? Care to guess why there’s less recycling according to state officials? The “absence of state and local aid” and the “lack of public education” are the reasons “New Jersey ranks is in the middle of the recycling barrel”.
Not to worry. Democrats have a plan. “We must explore every legislative, regulatory and economic tool available to meet the challenge of boosting our recycling rate.” In other words,” we’ve hit on a great excuse to take more of your money”. State bureaucrats want to impose a new garbage tax to raise $650 million.
