Stephen Ursery, Editor, Waste Age Magazine

June 14, 2005

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Official: New Jersey On Pace For Disposal Crisis

New Jersey’s top recycling official is predicting that the state will face a solid waste disposal crisis in a decade if it does not improve its recycling rate, according to a report in the Courier Post newspaper. Guy Watson, chief of the state’s Bureau of Recycling and Planning, told a recent gathering of local government officials that the state generated 19 millions of trash in 2003 and is on pace to generate 33 million tons by 2015, an amount that he claimed the state’s landfills and incinerators would be unable to handle. He wants to increase the state’s recycling rate from 33 percent to 50 percent, according to the paper.

About the Author(s)

Stephen Ursery

Editor, Waste Age Magazine, Waste360

Stephen Ursery is the editor of Waste Age magazine. During his time as editor, Waste Age has won more than 20 national and regional awards. He has worked for Penton Media since August 1999. Before joining Waste Age as the magazine's managing editor, he was an associate editor for American City & County and for National Real Estate Investor.

Prior to joining Penton, Stephen worked as a reporter for The Marietta Daily Journal and The Fulton County Daily Report, both of which are located in metro Atlanta.

Stephen earned a BA in History from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn.

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