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About Us
For over ten years, the Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group (SWRRG) at the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station had provided leadership and coordination in innovative waste reduction and recycling focus areas such electronics recycling, food waste recycling, paint recycling and green purchasing for human health. Our current primary focus area is the area of food waste and organic waste recycling, where we lead a statewide initiative whose objective is to bring together all the elements necessary for a statewide/regional industry which manufactures bioproducts from waste and which produces jobs, economic stimulus, and greenhouse gas reductions for the state and region.
Another current focus area is the area of school and higher education recycling. Robust and visible recycling programs, from bottles/cans and paper recycling through food waste recycling, are crucial to fostering future generations who will understand sustainable resource management. We provide a range of services to schools and higher education institutions, including waste audits, and training on how to establish successful recycling or reuse programs.
SWRRG operates with funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and a range of private sponsors, led by Premier Management. Additional major support comes in the form of hosting by the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES). Click here to view the complete list of funders.
SWRRG is pleased to cooperate with a sister organization, Food and Organics Recycling for New Jersey (FOR NJ), which developed from its food waste initiative and which serves as a trade, professional, and stakeholder organization that promotes the expansion of markets for recycled organic products, connects interested parties, and enlists public support for food and organics composting and recycling as appropriate responses to various environmental and sustainability issues.
NEWS
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Check Out Our New Food Waste Options Resource List and Presentations from the Warren County Forum:
› Food Waste Recycling Resources: Haulers, Recycling Options, Compostable Products—2009
› Presentation on Options (use it to get more information on each of the resources on our new list)
› Presentation on Tools for Getting Started with Food Waste Recycling
- 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.
(Read More) - OUR NEW SWRRG STEWARDSHIP SERIES: Creating a Conservation Garden and Collecting Reusable Items
Cook Campus Garden Clean-Up and Planting Day (Read PDF)
Rutgers Saves Goods Destined for Landfills and Aids Local Communities (Read PDF)
- SWRRG has been awarded a 2009 EPA Enviromental Quality Award!!! It is the highest recongnition presented to the public. (Read the EPA's award letter.)
- New for 2009 - SWRRG/FOR NJ Services: Wasteshed Formation Assistance
- SWRRG does waste audits!
- FORUM SERIES SPARKS WASTE OVERHAUL New Brunswick, N.J. — The Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group (SWRRG) at Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station has just finished its first year of county-based food waste recycling forums, and waste generators who have begun to sign up for food waste recycling are already finding some additional benefits <read more>
- Watch the NJN segment on Trenton Waste Exchange and SWRRG as a partner
- Check Out our New Green Gallery for Photos of Artistic Recycling Bins
- Waste Audit Program
- FOR NJ
- Help Bring a Food Waste Recycling Forum to your County!
