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Take Recyclables Again? MUA Wants Guarantees

By JACK SMYTH SWAINTON Twelve of the Ifi municipalities in Cape May County want the county Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) to net hack in the recycling business Bui wanting the MUA to set up a regional recycling center is one thing, and committing themselves to a long-term agreement to provide aluminum, glass and newspapers to such a center, is another, a top MUA official said last week MUA Solid Waste Manager Theodore K O'Neill said the 12 com munitics indicated a desire for the agency to resume recycling at a round table session on Sept .11 "But very few said they were in a position to com mil to anything." said O'Neill O'NEILL SAII) the MUA is attentive to proposals to h a n die r e e y e I a l> I e materials, hut is unwilling to lake any action without solid assurances "The prospects depend almost entirely on how many communities want us to iKi-ome involved, and whether they are willing to enter into a long-term agreement that would allow us to expend the money necessary to supl>ort them." said O'Neill. T In* reason e o u n t y municipalities want to abandon their recycling programs and turn the

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responsibility over to the MUA is economic: the bot torn has fallen out of the market for newspapers "The firm .that was paying $20 a ton for paper two years ago is charging municipalities SIS a ton to haul the paper away." said O'Neill T II F M A ItKKT'S GONE NOW. hut it won't Ik* gone forever It will come back." said O'Neill. The MUA would be in a lx*tter position to deal with the problem because with a higher volume, and better quality materials, they could get higher prices. O'Neill said. "We can make markets that small communities can't. We can reach out to markets in North Jersey." he said. Two years ago the MUA attempted to do essentially the same things they are lx*ing asked to do now. O'Neill said "We had a recycling facility at Kio Grande in the oid Menhaden plant, and we were getting materials from six com munitics." he said. "But they didn't get a helluva lot of money hack, and they dropped out." said O'Neill TIIK I'BOKI.KM FROM the MUA's standpoint was "that we didn't have enough municipalities to achieve the economy of scale we wanted so we could reduce our cost." he explained Al the time, the price the nulls were paying for jxi per was high and the cost to dump waste materials in landfills was low. O'Neill said "Some communities saw it as a great opportunity to make a lot of money, but now the tipping fees charg ed by landfills are four times greater. " said O'Neill Another factor that limited the MUA's effectiveness. O'Neill said, was what he termed "the enor mously political" attitude of some communities "Anything that could be said or done to embarrass the MUA was done." he charged "And another set of communities wouldn't deal with us under any cir eumstances." O'Neill said O'NKIl.t. DECLINED to guess how many communities would have to be witling to work with the MUA for the agency to set up a center "My personal view is my txxird would expect more than half of our com munitics representing 60 to 75 percent of the total population wanting this tH'fore they would Ik* will ing to go for it." he said It would cost the MUA NEW JEWEL C\I*E MAY — Emerald Business Srn ice s. operated b> city resident Thomas M. O'Neill, has opened at 1282 l.afayetle St. The firm will specialise in advising owners of businesses on ways to sell J their enterprises.

between $400,000 and $500,000 to set up the physical facilities needed for a center." O'Neill said A grant of $195,000 from the Department of En vironmental Protection is available. O'Neill said. "But without any interest from the communities, we couldn't come up with the matching funds." he said. SHOULD A ( ENTER be created, O'Neill said the MUA would turn to the private, non-profit sector of the community to staff and operate it. Most of the communities which have approached the MUA about the problem are scheduled to meet with agency representatives on Oct 2. O'Neill said, at which time a clearer pic ture may emerge O'Neill said that Cape May City Manager Fred Coldren. who has been active in seeking support for the center, has sent a resolution to the interested communities urging them to act "I guess my board is concerned when the markets are up. and we'd made a substantial investment if they (the municipalities) would bail out again." said O'Neill

Schools Get New Overhead

ERMA - Work is nearing completion on roof restoration at both I<ower Cape May Regional High SCIiool and Richard M Teilelman School, according to Richard M Strauss, super intendent of schools Using funds appropriated through a special lx>nd issue referendum in April, the work was begun in midAugust and should Ik* com plcted by late September The project had been identified as a major goal in the maintenance and repair of the school facilities and presented to the public on the ballot last spring USING EXISTING plans and speciifcatioas for the re- ) pair work. Ihe Ixxird of edu ' cation requested $925,000 from the public in order to complete the task When all bids had been received and reviewed, if was possible lo award contracts for the work amounting to $084,000 a signifcant sav ings to the community The repair work also in eludes rcchaulking and repoint ing of brick work and the application of silicone to prevent further water dam age

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