{"id":8054,"date":"2016-04-11T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2016-04-10T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T20:10:48","slug":"brick-to-receive-county-recycling-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/04\/brick-to-receive-county-recycling-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Receive County Recycling Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_617\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/recycle_can.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-617\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-617\" class=\"size-large wp-image-617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/recycle_can-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"An automated recycling can from Brick Township, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/recycle_can-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/recycle_can-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/recycle_can-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An automated recycling can from Brick Township, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township will share in a portion of $271,000 in recycling revenue generated by the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecycling in Ocean County continues to provide a host of environmental and economic benefits,\u201d said Freeholder Gerry P. Little, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Ocean County Recycling Revenue Sharing Program, municipalities are provided a portion of the recycling revenues based on the amount recycled and the market price of the material. Since its inception in 1995, the program has generated $15 million for municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>Brick\u2019s share for the period between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2015 is\u00a0$33,539, the third-highest amount in the county behind Toms River and Lakewood.<\/p>\n<p>The amount returned to the towns is based on the amount of recyclables collected and brought to the County and the price per commodity in the current market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese prices change all the time,\u201d Little said. \u201cAnd even though we have seen a decline in the average price of each commodity we recycle, we are still able to return money to our towns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For instance, corrugated cardboard is down $16 per ton to $120 per ton, old newspapers are down $7 per ton to $84 and some plastics have decreased by as much as $125 per ton in comparison to the same period in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The larger vehicle for\u00a0savings, officials have said, comes in the form of tipping fees saved since the recyclable materials are not being deposited in the county landfill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/04\/brick-to-receive-county-recycling-revenue\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township will share in a portion of $271,000 in recycling revenue generated by the county. \u201cRecycling in Ocean County continues to provide a host of environmental and economic benefits,\u201d said Freeholder Gerry P. Little, in a statement. Under the Ocean County Recycling Revenue Sharing Program, municipalities are provided a portion of the recycling revenues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,12,20],"tags":[24,1592,164,2061],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-ocean-county","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-ocean-county","tag-recycling","tag-recycling-revenue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/recycle_can.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-25U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}