Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station [Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group]
Food Waste

Help Bring A Food Waste
Recycling Forum to Your County

Food waste generators who start a food waste recycling program, save two ways:  1) economically by reducing their trash bills, and 2) environmentally by diverting their waste from landfills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  The Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group at the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station is bringing a detailed food waste recycling forum to each New Jersey county to acquaint food waste generators with the recycling options that would best suit local generators there. 

Registration for each educational forum is free.  Each forum provides nuts and bolts introductions on how to plan for and set up a food waste recycling program to receive the maximum economic and environmental benefits associated with food waste recycling.

SWRRG has now held forums in ten counties, and is working with other counties to hold forums from fall 2008 into the first half of 2009.  If you are reading this, you can help bring a forum to your county.  We will provide you the speakers, which include recycling systems experts such as John Connolly, Steve Mojo, and Mike Manna who can prepare generators to do waste audits, contract with haulers, create teams and do training, choose bins and avoid contaminating the recycling with things which cannot be accepted.  Speakers will describe each of the food waste recycling facilities now in development, what food and other organic waste they will accept and what products they will manufacture.  Other speakers will describe actual case studies and how to have your greenhouse gas savings calculated for you for free.  Each forum provides information for local governmental representatives on how to support food waste recycling within their jurisdictions and the benefits of doing so. 

BRINGING A FOOD WASTE FORUM TO YOUR COUNTY

All that a county needs to do to get a forum is:

  • Choose a date and find a location.
  • Pick up the costs of the location and breakfast/lunch or find a sponsor to do so.
  • Reach out to generators in your county to get them to participate.
  • Provide the County Executive, a Freeholder, or Legislator to welcome participants to the forum.

 

 

 


Upcoming FW Forums

  • Morris & Passaic County’s Food Waste Recycling Forum
    December 8, 2009
    Morris County Public Safety Training Academy 500 East Hanover Avenue Parsippany, NJ 07054 8:00 a.m. registration; 8:30 a.m. to 12:00/NOON. Free registration (but register early), Continental breakfast provided.
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