Business View Magazine | September 2020

288 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 has had is its standing as the first municipality in the State of New Jersey to purchase a Styrofoam recycling machine. “We purchased it right before the holiday season, last year,” Perry recounts. “This machine takes Styrofoam, heats it, and crushes it, and we sell it to a company in Princeton. And they are able to make picture frames, and crown molding, and floor molding out of it. So, with something that has long plagued us as a pollutant, polluting our waterways and taking up room in our landfills, we’re now able to do the same thing that we do with cardboard and paper and things like that. There’s an effort across the country to ban Styrofoam, and I understand why they want to do that. But a lot of businesses rely on Styrofoam, whether we like it or not – especially in the food service industry. So we decided to take a stand and offer our residents the ability to recycle it. “In just the eight months we’ve had the machine, we have been able to fill the equivalent of 24 tractor trailers worth of Styrofoam. It’s not in Consulting & Municipal ENGINEERS Parlin • Howell • Monmouth Junction • Pleasantville • Camden • Barnegat www.cmeusa1.com ENGINEERS • SURVEYORS • PLANNERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS GIS SPECIALISTS • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS Croydon Hall Playground Greeley Park Basketball Court