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Recycling Drama
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Trash and recycling containers outside of TD Bank in Pemberton Borough.
Request for Recycling Containers Leads to Heated Argument By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
PEMBERTON BOROUGH—A request for the Borough of Pemberton to purchase, mount and service recycling containers was met with strong resistance by Mayor Harold Griffin last month and led to a heated argument in public. Diane Fanucci, a resident activist who often attends Pemberton Borough Council meetings and made the request, wants to see the containers placed in areas frequented by the public. She said she has spent countless hours picking up cans and bottles, along with other trash, off the ground in the borough. She also
said she often walks by the borough’s trash receptacles and finds recyclables mixed with the trash. “I would rather provide the public with a recycling container than the opposite which is throwing recycling in the trash and making the bags heavier for our maintenance people and increasing our tipping fees at the landfill,” Fanucci said. Griffin previously told Fanucci that he was against the idea when she first brought it up earlier in the year. “I know how you feel mayor—so I am just addressing this generally,” said Fanucci as she spoke at a council meeting on Nov. 20. “Is
there a reason why you can’t as a group of town council people, put a trash can where the bus stop is and recycling containers everywhere by the trash cans? Is there total opposition on borough council to putting recycling containers where they really should be?” Councilman Terry Jerome, who helps manage the daily operations of Colonial Village Catering, which acquired and cultivated for 25 years a 60-acre picnic park in Mansfield known as Liberty Lake, immediately seized on the opportunity to provide his opinion on the containers. “I don’t have opposition to it,” he said. “But, I am going to say this: I ran a commercial park
for 25 years. We had recycling barrels everywhere. The constant battle that we fought was that the recycling barrels were filled with trash.” He said he thinks that the borough will fight the same battle. “Should we have recycling containers?” he said. “We should. The other half of that is how are they going to be dealt with? Who are we going to hire, pay and delegate to dump that stuff out and sort it into the appropriate container?” Fanucci said she has been emptying the borough’s recycling containers of trash, as a
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