New Jersey § 13:1e-99

§ 13:1e-99.

The Legislature finds that removing certain materials from the municipal solid waste

stream will decrease the flow of solid waste to sanitary landfill facilities, aid

in the conservation and recovery of valuable resources, conserve energy in the manufacturing

process, and increase the supply of reusable raw materials for the State's industries;

and that the recycling of reusable waste materials will reduce substantially the required

capacity of proposed resource recovery facilities and contribute to their overall

combustion efficiency, thereby resulting in significant cost-savings in the planning,

construction, and operation of these resource recovery facilities. The Legislature further finds that the expeditious identification of local, national

and international markets and distribution networks for recyclable materials is a

necessary prerequisite to the orderly development of mandatory Statewide county and

municipal recycling programs; and that the State must institute and complete studies

of market stimulation for recyclable materials. The Legislature further finds that the State may most appropriately demonstrate its

long-term commitment to proper solid waste management by establishing a mandatory

Statewide source separation and recycling program, and by increasing the purchase

of recycled paper and paper products by the various agencies and instrumentalities

of the State Government. The Legislature therefore declares that it is in the public interest to mandate the

source separation of marketable waste materials on a Statewide basis so that reusable

materials may be returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials

or products rather than be disposed of at the State's overburdened landfills, and

further declares that the recycling of marketable materials by every municipality

in this State, and the development of public and private sector recycling activities

on an orderly and incremental basis, will further demonstrate the State's long-term

commitment to an effective and coherent solid waste management strategy.