TRENTON – The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is honoring the state\’s recycling leaders as part the 34th Annual Recycling Symposium and Awards ceremony today at Jumping Brook Country Club in Neptune.

Among the honorees are a Middlesex County town that has executed an automated trash collection and single-stream recycling program, a non-profit\’s program to train developmentally disabled students proper disposal of unwanted electronics and a Rutgers\’ polymer engineer whose inventions have promoted plastics recycling.

Also recognized today are a group of grade-school students from across the state for their poems about recycling. The annual event is co-sponsored by the DEP and the Association of New Jersey Recyclers. 

\”The Christie Administration is proud of these recycling leaders for their important efforts and what they do to expand recycling efforts and awareness,\” said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. \”Recycling is a civic duty that gets everyone actively involved in protecting our environment and conserving our natural resources.\”

In 1987, New Jersey became the first state to require recycling with the passage of the New Jersey Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act. The Christie Administration continues to develop policies to boost current recycling rates and adapt recycling strategies to match today\’s lifestyles. As part of that effort, DEP

 A judging panel comprised of DNREC staff will be looking for photos that best portray this year’s contest theme, \”Hunters in Action.\” Judges also will look at technical criteria including resolution, clarity and composition.

11/15/13

No one knows when or where Theodore \”Ted\” Bundy killed for the first time. It could have been during his teenage years or when he was in his early 20s in the late 1960s. It might have been in Washington state, where he resided for many years, or on the East Coast, where he was born and lived as a young boy and had family ties.

But we do know that by 1974, Ted Bundy’s prolific reign of terror and murder was underway. In Washington state, young, attractive female college students began disappearing. Local police investigated, and clues began to emerge. Witnesses pointed to a Volkswagen Beetle and a young man on crutches or with an arm in a sling.