Sites at Shelter Cove, Seaside Heights parking lot, Ocean County Utility Authority lot in Ortley Beach
Toms River is pushing acres of garbage into "debris management sites" throughout the township, converting parks and parking lots into temporary dumping grounds in order to manage the clean-up of Hurricane Sandy. Township Administrator Paul Shives said landfill costs have been approximately $1 million a week. At its township council meeting Tuesday, Toms River paid a $2.5 million bill for landfill costs, which is just for three weeks of garbage, Shives said. One of the more prominent sites collecting garbage from multiple towns is at the Seaside Heights parking lot off Route 37 and 35, where a large multiple-story high pile of debris continues to build. The Seaside Heights parking lot is being used by Toms River to clear debris. The Ocean …
Drop-off locations in Toms River
Unwanted televisions, computers, electronic tablets, e-book readers and monitors that have been replaced by new electronic holiday gifts cannot be tossed into the trash but must be recycled as required by the state's one-year-old Electronic Waste Management Act, which generated an estimated 40 million pounds of recycled e-waste last year in New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin said in a prepared statement. This is a five-fold increase in e-waste tonnage over the approximately 8 million pounds collected in 2010, and an amount that is expected to increase this year as the program expands and improves in all 21 counties in New Jersey. "This program has been a great initial success in helping to clean up …
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Toms River Township Public Works
1672 Church Rd, Toms River, NJ
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The UPS Store
1358 Hooper Ave, Toms River, NJ
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Ray Cornwall
2:15 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
As a followup, the CLAW truck went through my neighborhood yesterday, and they picked up all of the tree debris in the neighborhood. We'll probably need a good street sweeper to keep all of the leaves from clogging the sewers, but the workers did a fantastic job. That was a LOT of debris to clean up. It's almost feeling normal again. more ›