Politics & Government
Toms River Tops Grant List with Recycling Center Makeover
Municipalities, schools around the county awarded $136,000 in grants
Toms River and Brick are the big winners in the latest recycling sweepstakes conducted by Ocean County.
Freeholder James F. Lacey said those towns are among a dozen applicants for recycling grants totaling about $136,000.
Most of the money for the recycling grants comes from a $3-a-ton tax on refuse dumped at the Ocean County Landfill in Manchester Township, he explained.
Fifteen grant applications were reviewed this year by the county’s Solid Waste Advisory Council and 12 projects were recommended for funding. They are designed to improve municipal or school recycling programs.
Toms River Township is getting $39,652 to improve the entrance to its Church Road recycling center to include a pavilion, barriers, an LED display board and concrete and electrical work.
Brick is getting $27,800, Long Beach Township, $25,000 and Lacey Township $20,247. In Toms River St. Joseph Grade School is receiving $273 and Monsignor Donovan High School, $819.
Two elementary schools in Berkeley Township are getting grants: the Bayville School, $725; and the Berkeley Township Elementary School, $3,274 to buy recycling containers for halls and playgrounds. Lacey Township High School is getting $1,897, Seaside Heights $10,144, Beachwood, $3,987 and Ship Bottom, $2,478.
Lacey said more than $1.5 million in grants have been awarded to communities and schools during the life of the program – all designed to increase recycling.
