rnor Report to the Gove gislature and the NJ State Le ss A Decade of Succe 2003 – 2013 2013 03 “We are extremely grateful to the State Legislature for supporting the Clean Communities Program since inception in 1986...”

T o Governor Chris Christie and Members of the New Jersey State Legislature,

The Trustees of the New Jersey Clean Communities Council are extremely grateful to the New Jersey State Legislature for supporting the Clean Communities Program since inception in 1986 with the passage of the Clean Communities Act. Funding provides for municipal and county litter abatement programs, litter pick up in state parks, and the statewide program of public information and education that includes a media campaign aimed at sustaining a reduction in litter.

We are delighted this year to celebrate a decade of success. Since 2003, more than 400,000 volunteers have picked up and recycled about 700,000 tons of trash from 230,000 miles and 426,000 acres of public property. We have reached 3.5 million people with Clean Communities messages.

In 2011, we assumed responsibility for New Jersey’s Adopt-a-Beach program. In 2012, we partnered with the NJ Department of Transportation to create a volunteer Adopt- A-Highway program. We are deeply grateful to the team of county coordinators who developed and annually update the Best Practices in Clean Communities CD.

Enclosed is the Report to the Governor and Legislature. The report highlights the activities of the Clean Communities Council from 2003-2013, including specific information on contracts SHW11-006 and SHW12-004 as required by law. The report was published following the collection of data from the 2011 statistical reports and completion of the 2012 DEP contract.

Respectfully submitted, N ew Jersey Clean Communities Council Board of Trustees

Patrick L. Ryan, Esq., President Linda Doherty Jack Sworaski Hopewell Valley Community Bank New Jersey Food Council Camden County

Barbara McConnell, Vice President JoAnn Gemenden Diana Vigilante MBI-GluckShaw Union County Somerset County

John Minton, Vice President Ismael Montanez Patrick L. Ryan, Esq. Honorary Trustees Monmouth County New Brunswick President James Morford Judy Murphy, Secretary Edward Nieliwocki New Jersey Food Council (retired) Morris County (retired) New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Robert Pellet Paul N. Bontempo, Treasurer Coleman Pellet (retired) MBI-GluckShaw Richard Sandner Covanta Energy Corporation Albert Fralinger, III PSE&G Matthew Spayth New Jersey Department of Treasury Overview The New Jersey Clean Communities • Established a clearinghouse of • Released a statewide visual litter survey New Jersey Clean Communities is a Council is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation information based on data collected from to determine the most effective ways to grassroots, community-driven program whose mission is to use education to municipal and county statistical reports, reduce litter, the first survey conducted created to reduce litter in the Garden change the attitudes that cause littering. augmented in 2006 with the creation of a since 1989. State. It has been one of the most popular The Council was first organized in 1988 as Best Practices Manual in CD format. The programs administered by the State of an advisory committee to the state Clean CD has been revised and updated in each • Established a state Urban Cleanup Team New Jersey since its inception in 1986, Communities Program, then located in the of the six subsequent years. for towns with dense populations where when the Clean Communities Act was first Department of Environmental Protection. litter tends to accumulate. • Re-established the student awards signed into law. During the 1990s, the state of New Jersey faced a severe budget shortfall that virtually program popular in the 1990s, and • Created in 2009 a Slam Dunk the Junk renamed it Kids-Teens for Clean The Clean Communities Act provides eliminated the positions and personnel that media campaign to enhance educational Communities; created the Environmental funding for a comprehensive litter provided oversight and public education activities and sustain a reduction of litter. Student Exchange program to promote abatement program by placing a user-fee for the program. The advisory committee, environmental education and the exchange • Assumed responsibility for the state on businesses that may produce litter- determined to continue these services, of ideas. Adopt a Beach program in the spring generating products. The user-fee results sought, and in September 1995, received nonprofit status as the New Jersey Clean of 2011. in a fund of about $18 million each year with • Created an Environmental Ambassadors Communities Council. When the Act was about $16 million being disbursed directly to program to honor students for leadership, passed once again in 2002, the Clean • Assumed responsibility for Adopt-a- municipalities and counties for grassroots community service and committment to the Communities Council received a grant Highway program in 2012. litter-abatement programs. environment. of $300,000 to continue the work of An Executive Director, Director of The program is managed by the educating residents. The passage of the • Re-established the awards program Constituent Relations, Manager of departments of Environmental Protection Recycling Enhancement Act in January of that had been an integral part of Clean Operations, Adopt-a-Highway Coordinator and Treasury, in conjunction with the New 2008 increased funding to provide for a Communities since the first Make and Executive Assistant are employed by Jersey Clean Communities Council. media campaign that would help to sustain New Jersey Glitter awards luncheon in the Clean Communities Council. a reduction in litter. The Council receives 1989. Spring conferences and awards $375,000 every year. programs have been hosted by the Clean Communities Council for eight years. Over the past eight years, the Council... • Opened an office at 479 West State Municipalities 80% Street in Trenton and hired personnel to manage the state program. The Council relocated in 2010 to 222 West State Street in Trenton. DEP 10% • Re-established the network of municipal Counties and county coordinators that supports 10% the state program; created an education program designed especially for coordinators, including regional workshops offered in the fall of every year. $375,000 NJ Clean Communities Council

4 5 Litter Survey Kids-Teens 2005 Budget Report In the fall of 2003, the Clean Communities The Clean Communities Council, in its first for Clean Consultants______$ 15,000 year of operation, released a statewide, Council hosted the first Gateway Cleanup Other______$4,000 visual litter survey that would become the in Newark. The cleanup was based on a Communities Rent______$7,000 basis for the program over the next five model created by the City of Trenton in the 2005 marked the year of the first Kids- Telephone______$2,000 1980s. By 2004, the Clean Communities years. Teens for Clean Communities Student Insurance______$9,000 Council officially launched the state Urban Awards Program, held on May 23 at the Postage______$2,000 Cleanup Team to address excessive Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank. The The litter survey was conducted by Supplies______$1,000 Gershman, Brickner & Bratton (GBB) in accumulations of litter in urban areas and Clean Communities Council partnered with Equipment______$ 4,000 conjunction with the Institute of Applied foster grassroots community participation local organizations to offer workshops Printing______$22,000 Research. GBB concluded: in the program. In 2004, Atlantic City, for students on oyster bedding, diving for Elizabeth, Irvington, and Paterson joined trash, and water pollution. The student Special Events______$80,000 • New Jersey’s urban roadways appear Newark and Trenton as members of the awards program was held on the first day Travel______$9,000 more littered than roadways in rural areas, team. To date, 20 towns participate. of the Clean Communities Conference, Miscellaneous______$2,000 and that urban roadways show twice the establishing a format for conferences in Salaries & Related Expenses_____$143,000 accumulation of litter than in other states It was not until the passage of the years to come. ______surveyed.New Jersey’s rural roadways Recycling Enhancement Act in 2008 that $300,000 appear cleaner than those in other states. the Clean Communities Council was funded This first awards program attracted 200 to carry out a media campaign. Slam Dunk students and teachers who accepted • 75% of people deliberately littering along the Junk was launched at the annual Clean awards and participated in workshops. urban roadways are males between Communities conference on May 19, 2009 Attendance at the student awards program the ages of six and 24; people littering in Newark. has increased dramatically over the past deliberately along freeways and rural six years; 1,800 students, teachers and roadways are between the ages of 11 and 2003-2004 Budget Report volunteers with participating every year. Consultants______$8,000 24. 2005 Business Contracts______$65,000 Kids-Teens for Clean Communities Partnership Award • The largest category of visible litter at Other______$2,000 reinstated the New Jersey Litteracy 21.3% is fast-food packaging. Rent______$9,000 Association, which was part of the Telephone______$3,000 state Clean Communities Program in • Paid advertising is the most effective and Insurance______$5,000 the early 1990s. The program promotes least costly way to reduce litter Postage______$2,000 environmental education and addresses the Council’s mission of changing the Supplies______$2,000 attitudes that cause littering. Equipment______$24,000 Printing______$16,000 Special Events______$55,000 Travel______$7,000 Miscellaneous______$2,000 Salaries & Related Expenses_____$100,000 ______$300,000

2004 Business Partnership Award

6 7 Best Practices The Salem County Utilities Authority has N JFC Scholarship The scholarship is a testament to the Food organized Keep it Covered, a program Council’s commitment to New Jersey Clean The Clean Communities Council fulfilled Award its goal of providing a clearinghouse of designed to reduce litter on county roads Communities. The organization has played In the spring of 2007, the New Jersey information for its constituents in 2006 by providing tarps to residents who are a lead role in legislative issues related to Food Council (NJFC) launched the first when a team of county coordinators - transporting bulky waste to the county Clean Communities since the 1980s. NJFC NJFC Scholarship Program, providing a JoAnn Gemenden (Union), Liz Sweedy “convenience center.” The center is open member organizations pay 50 percent of new incentive for standards of excellence (Morris), Carole Tolmachewich (Middlesex), for the convenience of residents who the user-fee that funds the state program. in environmental education related to litter Diana Vigilante (Somerset), and Melinda would like to bring their own waste to the abatement and the proper handling of Williams (Salem) - created a Best Practices center at a minimal fee. The program is 2007 Budget Report waste. in Clean Communities Manual. especially effective in Salem County where Consultants______$ 13,000 rural roadways are affected by vehicle litter Other______$2,000 The scholarship, in the amount of $1,000, The manual, in CD format, in each of eight and debris. Rent______$12,000 has been awarded for eight consecutive years has been revised and updated. Telephone______$2,000 years as part of the annual Clean It is a compilation of information such The Ocean County Corrections Communities Conference. All nominations Insurance______$10,000 as the proper use of grant funds; lists Department’s Divers Environmental submitted for Kids-Teens Awards are Postage______$3,000 of educational materials, vendors and Education Program (D.E.E.P) educates considered for the scholarship. Special Supplies______$2,000 performers; samples of program materials; third- and fourth-grade students in Ocean consideration is given to projects or Printing______$22,000 and examples of excellent municipal and County about the effects of litter and programs that are ongoing, innovative and Special Events______$82,000 county programs. pollution on sea life, the ocean and the environment. Field trips are conducted that may be a model for the state. Food Travel______$9,000 Council President Linda Doherty presents Miscellaneous______$3,000 For example, the Cumberland County to Gull Island. Over the last decade, the scholarship check at the annual Clean Improvement Authority partners with thousands of students have participated in Salaries & Related Expenses_____$140,000 Communities Awards Banquet. the Cumberland County Sportsmen’s the program. ______Federation and the New Jersey $300,000 Department of Environmental Protection’s The county coordinators who compiled Division of Fish and Game to organize a information for the CD have managed “trash hunt” on public lands in Cumberland Clean Communities programs for 20 years County. The county provides supplies and have received Clean Communities and waives tipping fees. Over 713 tons of Awards for standards of excellence. trash, including 12,964 tires, have been collected from 75,000 acres of waterways 2006 Budget Report and woodlands since the program began Consultants______$8,000 in 1992. Rent______$5,000 Telephone______$2,000 Insurance______$9,000 Postage______$2,000 Supplies______$1,000 Equipment______$7,000 Printing______$23,000 Special Events______$98,000 Travel______$8,000 Miscellaneous______$2,000 Salaries & Related Expenses_____$135,000 ______$300,000 2007 Business Partnership Award

2006 Business 8 Partnership Award 9 Business Waste Management provided slam dunk Environmental Ambassador in 2009. unprecedented financial support for Subsequently, the Council launched an Partnership the Clean Communities Conference in the junk environmental ambassadors program Program Princeton, making it possible for nearly The Clean Communities Council reached aimed at promoting the accomplishments new standards of excellence in 2009 with The Clean Communities Business 1,000 students, teachers and volunteers of youngsters who show creativity and several new educational initiatives. As Partnership Award Program reached to attend the Kids-Teens for Clean organizational skills in supporting values of part of the annual spring conference, the new standards of excellence in 2008, Communities Student Awards Program a clean and healthy environment. Council launched a Slam Dunk the Junk with increased support from corporations on May 21, 2008, in Jadwin Gymnasium campaign to remind people to use litter charged with promoting an environmental, on the Princeton University Campus. Miranda Pawline, a resident of Delanco bins and recycling containers, and keep greening ethic. Waste Management of Waste Management was honored with the in Burlington County, served as the litter off the ground. The phrase was first New Jersey led the way. Business Partnership Award on May 22, second New Jersey Clean Communities 2008 at the Nassau Inn in Princeton. coined in New Jersey by seven-year-old Environmental Ambassador. Pawline East Orange resident, Quamir Payton, For decades, the corporate waste giant organized a town-wide recycling campaign in the spring of 2007 when he reminded donated supplies and dumpsters to Covanta Energy accepted a Stewardship of to keep plastic bags off the ground along members of town council to enforce anti- municipalities throughout the state for Public Lands Award on that same occasion. the Delaware River where she lives. During litter laws and help keep the city clean. cleanups. Over the past several years, For six years, Covanta employees have her stint as the environmental ambassador, The phrase became the motto of the East Waste Management has participated participated in Newark’s Gateway Cleanup, she received a USEPA President’s Youth Orange Clean and Green Center and was in the City of Elizabeth’s New Energy clearing more than 20 tons of garbage Award. later adopted by the Clean Communities Cleanup, hosted jointly by the Clean from Doremus Avenue. Covanta adopted Council for a statewide campaign. Slam Communities Council and the City of a traffic island at Lockwood and Raymond The Slam Dunk the Junk media campaign Dunk the Junk graphics appear on trash/ Elizabeth during Earth Week of every year. Boulevard, as part of the city’s Clean is funded by money appropriated to the recycling cans, in light boxes and on In 2008, Waste Management employees Entryway Program. Covanta was the Clean Communities Council by the passage banners and posters in the Atlantic cleared 10 tons of debris from a roadway recipient of the 2009 Business Partnership of the Recycling Enhancement Act in City Convention Center, Meadowlands at South First Street in Elizabeth. The Award, and joined the Clean Communities 2008. SGW Communications, located in Complex, Great Adventure, and in county company adopted the roadway, which has Council board of trustees the same year. Montville, was awarded the contract for and municipal facilities throughout the been a site of illegal dumping for years. Business Partnership Awards have been a media campaign in 2009. SGW retained state. Two public service announcements In 2009, Waste Management employees presented to Whole Foods (2010), Six Flags the contract for five consecutive years. have been aired on network and cable cleaned an entryway at Empire Street and Great Adventure (2011), NJ Natural Gas The contract was awarded to the Jaffe television stations as well as on closed Route #22 in Newark. (2012), Wawa (2013) and Hopewell Valley Communications in 2014. Community Bank (2014). circuit TVs. Quamir Payton was honored as the first New Jersey Clean Communities 2009 Budget Report 2008 Budget Report Consultants______$60,000 Consultants______$13,000 Rent______$14,000 Other______$2,000 Telephone______$2,000 Rent______$14,000 Insurance______$8,000 Telephone______$2,000 Postage______$2,000 Insurance______$10,000 Supplies______$2,000 Postage______$2,000 Equipment______$1,000 Supplies______$3,000 Printing______$19,000 Equipment______$4,000 Special Events______$94,000 Printing______$14,000 Miscellaneous______$1,000 Special Events______$85,000 Travel______$7,000 Travel______$6,000 Salaries & Related Expenses_____$165,000 Miscellaneous______$2,000 ______Salaries & Related Expenses_____$143,000 $375,000 ______$300,000 ‘09 2008 Business Partnership Award 10 11 Clean A dopt-a-Beach 2011 Budget Report Communities In the spring of 2011, the NJ Department of Environmental Protection announced a Consultants______82,000 Environmental partnership with the Clean Communities Rent______16,000 Student Exchange Council that transferred the administration Telephone______3,000 The first Clean Communities Environmental of New Jersey’s Adopt-A-Beach program Insurance______10,000 Student Exchange occurred in the city of 2010 Budget Report to the Clean Communities Council. The Postage______2,000 Brigantine in 2009 but reached new heights Consultants______67,000 program was created by the passage Supplies______2,000 of the Adopt-a-Beach Act in 1992 to in 2010 when PSE&G came on board as Rent______18,000 Equipment______3,000 encourage volunteers to clean and the project’s sole corporate sponsor. Telephone______2,000 Printing______15,000 The purpose of the student exchange is maintain New Jersey’s beaches. By Insurance______6,000 Special Events______75,000 to bring students from different regions 2011, its mission expanded to include the Postage______2,000 Travel______7,000 of the state together to collaborate on volunteer cleanup of beaches, bays, rivers, Miscellaneous______3,000 an environmental project, to exchange Supplies______1,000 lakes and streams and all waterways. Salaries & Related Expenses______158,000 information about environmental issues and Equipment______5,000 In keeping with the mandate of the Adopt- develop innovative solutions to problems. Printing______13,000 a-Beach Act, the Clean Communities ______Projects in the past six years have been Special Events______86,000 Council hosts two cleanups each year. The $376,000 beach cleanups; topics for discussion have Travel______10,000 International Coastal Cleanup, organized been water conservation and the effects Miscellaneous______3,000 by the Ocean Conservancy in Washington, of natural diaasters on the environment. Salaries & Equipment______162,000 D.C., takes place in September of every Student exchanges have been hosted ______year. The Clean Communities Council also hosts the Clean Water Challenge from by the Clean Communities Council in $375,000 Brigantine (2009), Liberty State Park (2010), March 1- April 30. Volunteers are honored Wildwood Conference Center (2011), at the Clean Communities awards dinner Palisades Interstate Park (2012), Asbury which takes place in May of every year. Park (2013) and Ocean City (2014). The The Clean Communities Council also 2011 Clean Communities Student Exchange supports cleanups organized by the is notable because the Clean Communities Department of Environmental Protection Council announced that the NJ Department including cleanups in the Barnegat Bay, of Environmental Protection transferred Delaware and Raritan rivers, and state responsibilities for the state Adopt-a-Beach parks where illegal dumping is rampant. program to the NJ Clean Communities The Clean Communities Council is honored Council. to carry on the tradition of adopting beaches in New Jersey. ‘11 12 ‘10 13 Program summary 2003-2013 A dopt-a-Highway In the spring of 2012, the NJ Department 2012 Budget Report of Transportation announced a partnership Consultants______68,000 Regional Workshops 2004 Seminar & Awards with the Clean Communities Council to Rent______20,000 2003 > Maximize Your Dollars Within the Limits of the Law Banquet Award Winners create an Adopt-a-Highway program that Telephone______2,000 October 20, Wildwoods Convention Center, Wildwood (Cape May) May 20, 2004, Hyatt Regency New Brunswick would encourage volunteers to clean and Insurance______9,000 October 24, Perona Farms, Andover (Sussex) Joanne Baranowski, Pittsgrove October 29, The Breakers, Spring Lake (Monmouth) Boy Scout Troop #84, Somerset maintain state highways. Postage______2,000 Joseph Butrica, East Brunswick Supplies______2,000 2004 > Keeping Your Community Clean With Marcy Calabrese, Garfield Our mission is to reduce litter on state Equipment______3,000 Little Time and Little Resources City of Bayonne highways in an ongoing effort to enhance Printing______16,000 October 26, Olde Mill Inn, Basking Ridge (Somerset) City of New Brunswick the appearance of New Jersey’s Special Events/Promotion______119,000 October 28, Smithville Inn, Smithville (Atlantic) City of Newark landscape, protect the health and welfare City of Salem Travel______6,000 of New Jersey residents, and promote a 2005 > The Dirty Side of Cleanup Concerned Citizens for Buckingham Park, Willingboro booming economy. Salaries & Related Expenses______178,000 October 26, Liberty House, Jersey City (Hudson) Al DuBois, Clifton ______October 28, Battleship New Jersey, Camden (Camden) Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space The Clean Communities Council $425,000 Friends of Temple Place, National Park administers the daily operations of the 2006 > Got Attitude? Reducing Litter by Changing Attitudes Lower Alloways Creek October 26, Inn at the Lambertville Station, Lambertville (Hunterdon) Morristown-Beard School program, provides safety training for Jack Nydam, Brick volunteers and supplies for cleanups. 2007 > Maximize Your Dollars Within the Limits of the Law, Part II Knadya O’Kelly, East Orange The Department of Transportation October 23, Maurice River Bluffs Preserve, Millville (Cumberland) Ocean County Department of Corrections approves highway locations, installs October 25, Nature Center of Cape May, Cape May (Cape May) Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners recognition signs, and removes and October 26, Tatum County Park (Monmouth) Robert Pellet, NJ Clean Communities Council disposes of trash after cleanups. October 30, NJ Meadowlands Commission, Lyndhurst (Bergen) Pemberton Township Environmental Commission Volunteers conduct cleanups four times October 31, Casino in Silas Condict County Park (Morris) Project Clean Up, Stanhope each year for two years, and abide by the Nancy Salvatore, Washington (Morris) safety rules and regulations required by 2008 > Partners for Progress w/Downtown New Jersey ShopRite the NJ Department of Transportation and October 22, Daniella’s Track Side Grille, Fair Lawn, (Bergen) Jill Stone, NJ Community Water Watch (Somerset) the NJ Clean Communities Council. The October 23, Andre’s Restaurant, Newton (Sussex) Sussex County YMCA October 28, Lobster Shanty, Toms River (Ocean) Liz Sweedy, Morris County Clean Communities Council recognizes October 29, Charlie Brown’s Steakhouse, Highland Park (Middlesex) Township of Ocean volunteers who have adopted highways at October 30, Bolero Resort, Wildwood (Cape May) Township of Pittsgrove it’s awards dinner every year. Township of South Brunswick 2009 > Slam Dunk the Junk Carmine Valiante, Elizabeth The NJ Clean Communities Council is October 21, Lambertville Inn, Lambertville (Hunderton) Judith Vihonski, Oakland honored to carry on the tradition of New October 22, Riverview Inn, Pennsville (Salem) Woodstown Presbyterian Church Jersey’s Adopt-A-Highway program. October 28, Inn at Millrace Pond, Hope (Warren) Woodstown Rotary

2010 > Slam Dunk the Junk 2005 Seminar & Awards October 19, The Brownstone, Paterson (Passaic) Banquet Award Winners October 21, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton (Mercer) May 26, 2005, Oyster Point Hotel, Red Bank October 27, Wheaton Village, Millville (Cumberland) Donna Bangiola, Morristown Borough of Fair Lawn 2011 > Slam Dunk the Junk Borough of South Bound Brook October 25, Persona Farms, Andover City of Paterson October 27, Renault Conference Center, Galloway Coca-Cola Bottling Company Cumberland County Federation of Sportsman Clubs 2012 > Slam Dunk the Junk Honorable Joseph V. Doria, NJ State Legislature November 1, Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson Ismael A. Montanez, New Brunswick Cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy Judy Murphy, NJ Clean Communities Council Navesink Swimming River Group ‘12 2013 > Slam Dunk the Junk NJ Food Council October 30, Six Flags Great Adventure Pemberton Township Environmental Commission Rescheduled Casey Romanick, Atlantic County 14 15 Dr. Anil Sharma, Sussex County LaBelhaven Middle School, Linwood Grove Street School, Irvington Bryce Zicarelli, Closter Township of Howell Boys and Girls Club of Trenton McDivitt School, Old Bridge Brigantine Elementary School Township of South Plainfield Brigantine Elementary School Science Club, Mays Landing Cedar Drive 8th Grade Students, Colts Neck Watershed Ambassadors Program, NJ Dept of Environmental Protection Cub Scout Troop #515, Howell P.S. #14 C.R.A.B. Club, Bayonne Christopher Columbus Middle School, Clifton Melinda Williams, Salem County 4-H Center, Millville South Plainfield Glitterbugs East Orange Campus High School Galloway Township Middle School Students of Montgomery Kids Connection, Skillman Frank R. Conwell School #4, Jersey City NJ Transit Adopt-A-Station Awards Gordon Parks Academy, East Orange Union Avenue School, Irvington Johnny Glidden, Closter Sigma Lamda Beta International Tau Alpha Chapter Irvington High School University Heights Charter School, Newark Joseph C. Caruso Elementary School, Keansburg Rutger’s New Brunswick, City of New Brunswick Rail Station Irvington Junior Environmental Club Washington Avenue School, Pleasantville Joseph R. Middle School, Keansburg Marine Academy of Science & Technology, Sandy Hook Williamstown Middle School Community of Caring Keansburg High School Kids-Teens Awards Mountain Lakes High School Young Environmentalists Raising Awareness, East Orange Lafayette School, Lafayette Avon Avenue School, Newark Notre Dame Regional School, Buena Sasha Lipton, Second Chance Toys, Mountainside Benjamin Franklin School, Newark Red Bank Charter School 2008 Seminar & Awards Mayor’s Environmental Advisory Board Committee, Newark Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School Ecology Club Rittenberg Middle School, Egg Harbor City Banquet Award Winners Brian Meersma, Princeton Junction Christopher Columbus Middle School, Clifton School #14, Clifton May 22, 2008, Nassau Inn, Princeton Wallis Muraca. Abington Avenue School, Newark Clifton High School Conservation Club St. Bridget Regional School, Glassboro Americorp Watershed Ambassadors , Passaic Gladys Hillman Jones Middle School, Newark South Plainfield Glitterbugs Atlantic County Utilities Authority Port Monmouth Road Elementary School, Keansburg Gordon Parks Academy Tire Rescue Squad, East Orange Students of Montgomery Kids Connection, Skillman BR Williams Crew-Pennsville Relay for Life, Woodstown Saint Augustine School, Ocean City Irvington Junior Environmental Club Washington Avenue School, Pleasantville Blue Herron Pines Neighbors, Galloway Salk Middle School, Old Bridge Irvington High School Young Audiences of New Jersey, Princeton Camden County Enforcement Program Students of Montgomery Kids Connection, Skillman Kearny High School Chatham Township Environmental Commission Trenton Community Charter School Jazmen Philips, West Orange 2007 Seminar & Awards City of Newark University Heights Charter School, Newark of Science, Clifton Banquet Award Winners County of Bergen Andrew Wells, Lebanon Borough School Red Bank Charter School May 24, 2007, Liberty House, Jersey City County of Burlington Brian Wells, Clinton Township Middle School Saint Dominics School, Brick Kimberly Alvarez, Howell Covanta Corporation David Wells, Lebanon Borough School School 21 Oakridge Heights, Colonia Bayonne Board of Education Laurie Dunwoody, Howell Williamstown Middle School South Plainfield Glitterbugs Best Practices Committee Deborah Eadie, NJ Transit Students of Montgomery Kids Connection, Skillman James Burnet IV, Madison Downtown Development Commission Thomas Floyd, Concerned Citizens of Buckingham Park Webelos Wolverine Den, South Plainfield Marcy Calabrese, Garfield John Grabowski, Colts Neck 2009 Seminar & Awards Wolf Den 5 Pack 224, South Plainfield City of East Orange-Clean & Green Environmental Education Center Blaine Hummel, East Amwell Banquet Award Winners City of Hackensack Linwood Environmental Commission May 20, 2009, The Newark Club, Newark 2006 Seminar & Awards County of Bergen Ron Lotterman, Fair Lawn Art of Survival Project, Newark Banquet Award Winners Debbie DePew, Old Bridge Thomas Luminoso, Union Beach Barat Foundation, Newark May 25, 2006, Renault Resort, Egg Harbor City-Galloway Honorable Joseph DiVincenzo, Essex County Honorable John F. McKeon, NJ State Legislature Block Watch Association, Newark Blue Heron Pines Neighbors, Galloway JoAnn Gemenden, Union County Nature Conservancy Delaware Bayshores Program, Millville Borough of River Edge Borough of Fair Lawn Greater Newark Conservancy Ocean County Department of Corrections Borough of Tinton Falls, Open Space Committee Briarcliff School, Mountain Lakes Madison Downtown Development Commission Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners Jack Branagan, Earth Matters City of Vineland PSE&G Peppermint Puppeteers Joseph Campitelli, Brigantine The Conley Family, Galloway Patrick Ryan, NJ Clean Communities Council Natalie Pisarcki, Boonton Citizens Against Crime, Block Watch Association County of Cumberland Bill Sheehan, Hackensack Riverkeeper Richard Stockton College City of Egg Harbor Al Dubois, Clifton Skinner Family, Fair Lawn Rowan University City of Paterson Barbara Fiedler, Galloway Tom Tokar, Bayonne Somerset County Probations Program City of Perth Amboy Charlotte Galla, Irvington Township of Irvington Toll Brothers, Princeton Manor Development City of Union City Barbara McConnell, NJ Clean Communities Council Tim Vogel Township of East Brunswick Covanta Energy Corporation NJ Department of Environmental Protection Township of Irvington DMR Architects Knadya O’Kelly, East Orange NJ Transit Adopt-A-Station Awards Diana Vigilante, Somerset County Coca-Cola Bottling Company NJ Food Council Donna Bangiola & Friends, Morristown and Morris Plains Stations Waste Management of New Jersey Carol Jean Doyle, Kearny Anna Panayiotou, Bayonne Ed Zimmerman, Hazlet Station on NJ Transit’s New Jersey Coast Line John Wohlrab, Waste Management of New Jersey First Occupational Center of New Jersey Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, River Restoration Program Joseph Zboray, Westhampton Mary Ellen Gilpin, Hudson County Diane Polifronio, Paterson Kids-Teens Awards Greater Newark Conservancy, Newark Alice Temple, South Plainfield Beach Haven Elementary School NJ Transit Adopt-A-Station Awards John Henry, East Orange Carol Tolmachewich, Middlesex County Brigantine Elementary School Garden Club of Spring Lake, Point Pleasant Rail Station Historic 8th Avenue Project, Newark Township of Howell Chancellor Avenue School, Irvington on NJ Transit North Jersey Coastline Irvine Turner Homes Association, Newark Township of Monroe Christa McAuliffe School – P.S. 28, Jersey City IYO-NJ, Youth Corp of Newark and Essex Corp, Ivy Hill Neighborhood Association, Newark Christopher Columbus Middle School, Clifton Newark & Broad Street and South Orange Avenue stations Lakes Bay Recreation Center, Egg Harbor Township NJ Transit Adopt-A-Station Awards Clifton Elementary School #5 Maria Johnson, East Orange Gary L. Manning & Family, Dover Rail Station Clifton High School Conservation Club Kids-Teens Awards Fernanda Lois, Kearny Timothy W. Apgar, Mount Olive Rail Station Colts Neck High School Band Arts High School, Newark Knadya O’Kelly, East Orange Cub Scouts Webelos Eagle Den 5, Pack 207 Asbury Park School District Jonathan Philips, Elizabeth Kids-Teens Awards Eleanor Van Gelder School, Edgewater , Newark St. Phillips Academy, Newark A.C.S.S.S.D. Special Learning Class, Mays Landing Frank R. Conwell Middle School #4, Jersey City Boy Scout Troop 91, Hamilton Town of Hammonton 16 17 Township of Monroe, Middlesex County 2010 Seminar & Awards Richmond Avenue School, Atlantic City Youth-Environmental-Senior’s Club Pasquelle Vella, Elizabeth Banquet Award Winners Sovereign Avenue School, Atlantic City Warren County Department of Corrections Tom Walkup, Millville May 26, 2010, Trump Marina, Atlantic City Texas Avenue School Friends of the Environment Club, Atlantic City Joan Wilkinson, Township of Wyckoff John Wehling, Millville Franz Adler, Margate City Uptown Complex School, Atlantic City West Market Street Neighborhood Group, Newark Atlantic City Venice Park School, Atlantic City Adopt A Beach Awards Atlantic City Convention Center Virginia Baker, Camden New Jersey Beach Buggy Association NJ Transit Adopt-A-Station Awards Atlantic County Institute of Technology Willingboro High School Sons of Beaches Catherine Davis, NJ Transit Atlantic County Utilities Authority Williamstown Middle School, Renaissance Program Virginia Loftin, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection John and Lynn McCabe, Middletown Train Station Borough of Manville Williamstown Middle School, Community of Caring Gardens Rake and Hoe Garden Club, Westfield Train Station Francis J. Brooks, Tabernacle Young Farmers at Eve’s Garden, Camden Adopt-A-Station Awards City of Brigantine Saint Paul A.M.E. Church, East Orange and Brick Stations Kids-Teens Awards City of Camden, Department of Public Works Clean Communities Environmental Student Exchange Awards The First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen, 5ive6ix School, Hackensack Stephanie L. Crain, Fort Dix Atlantic County Institute of Technology Alloway Eighth Grade Art Program Jessica Cuevas, Margate City Kids-Teens Awards Barringer 9th Grade Success Academy, Newark William G. Dressel, NJ State League of Municipalities Brigantine Elementary School Student Council Academy Street Elementary School, Dover Bethel Christian Academy, Newark Thomas Floyd, Willingboro Carl Sandburg Middle School, Old Bridge Arts High School, East Orange Branch Brook School, Newark Lockheed Martin MS2, Moorestown Christopher Columbus Middle School, Clifton Atlantic County Institute of Technology (ACIT) Christopher Columbus Middle School, Go Green Team Donna Marrandino, Ocean City Clifton High School Benjamin Banneker Academy, East Orange Clifton School #4-Grade 4 Barbara Panzino, Vineland Costley Middle School, East Orange Bergen County Technical High School - Technology Club Divya Faria and Environmental Action Committee, Morris Hill Elizabeth Petuskey, Atlantic County Institute of Technology East Orange Campus High School Black River Middle School Environmental Club, Chester High School PSE&G Englewood Environmental Stewards Burnett Hill Elementary School, Livingston East Orange Charter School Dave Street Frank R. Conwell Middle School – M.S. #4, Jersey City Cicely L. Tyson Elementary, East Orange Englewood Environmental Stewards Sustainable West Milford Gordon Parks Academy, East Orange Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Fine & Performing Arts High Franklin Avenue School, Newark Liz Sweedy, Morris County Liberty Middle School, Newark School, East Orange Girl Scout Troop 2016, Howell Township of Monroe, Gloucester County Passaic High School Dionne Warwick Institute, East Orange Go Green-09 Groups 1,2, and 3, Haddon Township of Pemberton Patrick F. Healy Middle School, East Orange East Hanover Middle School – Go Green Recycling Team Greater Newark Conservancy Junior Rangers, Newark Whole Foods Torchlight Educational Academy, Newark East Orange Campus High School Grove Street School, Irvington Woodrow Wilson School, Bayonne East Orange Charter School Harriet Tubman School, Newark NJ Transit Adopt-A-Station Awards Edward T. Bowser Unique School of Excellence, East Orange John F. Kennedy School, Newark Signa Lambda Beta, International Fraternity, Newark Penn Station 2011 Seminar & Awards - Environmental Club Lady Liberty Academy Charter School, Newark Waterford Township Environmental Commission, Atco Station Banquet Award Winners Gordon Parks Academy, East Orange Maple Avenue School, Newark May 26, 2011, Hyatt Regency Morristown John L. Costley Middle School, East Orange Maplewood Middle and High School Kids-Teens Awards Atlantic County Utilities Authority Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Academy, East Orange Maria L. Varisco-Rogers Charter School, East Orange Alyssa Pepper, Livingston Aurora Anguiano, Passaic High School, Passaic City Lincoln Park Middle School Martin Luther King School, Newark Atlantic City High School Bergen County Probation Services Division Maria Varisco Rodgers Charter School, Newark Montgomery Kid Connection, Skillman Atlantic City High School East Campus Borough of Fair Lawn McDivitt School, Dover Newark Preschool Council, Head Start AtlantiCare Teen Center, Atlantic City Glenn K. Coutts, Town of Morristown Mildred Barry Garvin School, East Orange Patrick F. Healy Middle School, East Orange Oakcrest High School, Mays Landing Diana Dove Morris County School of Technology (Culinary) Red Bank Charter School, Naturalist Club Atlantic County Alternative High School, Mays Landing Dove Environmental Programs Morris County School of Technology (Wood Shop) Ridge Street School, Newark Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Jimmy Frazier, City of Newark Morris Knolls High School, Rockaway Solomon Schechter Day School, Raritan Valley Brigantine Elementary School Anthony Gagliano. Passaic City – Science Academy St. Philips Academy Charter School, Newark CJ Davenport School, Egg Harbor Township Arlene Johnson, Livingston Health Department Mount Arlington School – Green Team Students Against Violating The Earth, Lawrenceville Chelsea Heights School. Atlantic City Penny Jones, Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority Torchlight Charter School, Newark Cicely Tyson Elementary School, East Orange Debbie Jordan, Martha B. Day Elementary School, Borough of Passaic High School – The Environmental Science Club University Heights School, Newark Dionne Warrick Institute, East Orange Bloomingdale Patrick Healy Middle School, East Orange Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy, East Orange Dr. Martin Luther King School, Atlantic City Judy Kessler, City of Millville Pride Academy, East Orange West Side 9th School, Newark East Orange Campus Basketball Team Paul Lewis, City of Newark Shepard School, Morristown Williamstown Middle School, Renaissance Program East Orange Community Charter School Deborah Mango, Whippany Park High School St. Phillips Academy, Newark Eco Charter School, Camden Kathleen O’Neil Margiotta, Town of Morristown Torchlight Academy, Newark Clean Communities Environmental Student Exchange Awards Go Green Video Team, Haddon Kathy Meneghin, Borough of Fair Lawn Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy, Newark Atlantic County Institute of Technology, Mays Landing Linda Morehouse, Bergen County Department of Health Services Whippany Park High School – Science & Environmental Brigantine Elementary School Joyann Miller School, Egg Harbor Township Morris County Park Commission Science Club (SEEK) East Orange Campus High School LaCarbaire Academy, Upper Montclair Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority Whitney E. Houston Academy, East Orange Frank R. Conwell Middle School #4, Jersey City Max Kesselman, Ventnor New Jersey Forestry Association Williamstown Middle School – Community of Caring Gardens Gordon Parks Academy, East Orange New Jersey Avenue Girl Scouts, Atlantic City Queen of Peace Ecology Club, Borough of North Arlington Williamstown Middle School – Renaissance B.R.A.V.E.S. Holy Spirit High School, Atlantic City New Jersey Avenue School, Atlantic City Ridgefield Park/Bogota Rotary Club St. Augustine Preparatory High School, Atlantic City New York Avenue School, Atlantic City St. Paul’s/Americorp, City of Paterson Clean Communities Environmental Student Exchange Awards Science Park High School, Newark NJ Tree Foundation, Camden County Six Flags Great Adventure Akeem Adisa, East Orange School District University High School, Newark Oceanside Charter School, Atlantic City Liz Sweedy, Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority Jill Baturin, Williamstown Middle School West Orange High School Overbrook High School, Pine Hill Town of Morristown Maria B. Johnson, Gordon Parks Academy Township of Morris Jennifer A. Longo, Patrick F. Healy Middle School Township of West Milford David Mwangi, Campus High School 18 19 Marcella Pizzo, Williamstown Middle School Old Bridge Township 2013 Seminar & Awards Adopt-A-Highway Awards Joseph Refinski, Costley Middle School PSE&G Banquet Award Winners First Class Petty Officer’s Club of Naval Weapon Station Melissa Sheridan, Cicely Tyson School May 23, 2013, Maritime Park, Liberty State Park Master Corporal Michael Ross, Ocean County Jon Woodward, Williamstown Middle School Kids-Teens Awards Barnegat Bay Blitz Rain Barrel Challenge Department of Corrections Atlantic County Institute of Technology, Mays Landing City of Perth Amboy Your Choice the People’s Choice 2012 Seminar & Awards Brigantine Elementary School Lt. John Clark, Ocean County Department of Corrections Banquet Award Winners Cape May County Technical School, Key Club Steven B. Clark, Cumberland County Improvement Authority Adopt-A-Station Awards May 24, 2012, Congress Hall, Cape May City Chelsea Heights School, Atlantic City Patty Craven, Borough of Wharton Pullens Garage, Hamilton Rail Station Atlantic County Utilities Authority Cicely L. Tyson Community School of the Performing Debbi DePew, Township of Old Bridge John McCabe and Family, MIddletown Rail Station, Joseph Campitelli, The City of Brigantine Beach & Fine Arts, East Orange Fair Haven Environmental Commission Cape May County Cicely L. Tyson Elementary School, East Orange Christina Fehre, Palisades Interstate Park Cicely L. Tyson Harp Ensemble, City of East Orange Dionne Warrick Institute, East Orange Mayor Owen Henry, Township of Old Bridge Kids-Teens Awards City of Cape May Dr. Martin Luther King School, Atlantic City Iron Bound Corporation, City of Newark Anna L. Klein School, Guttenberg Daniel Cruz, Atlantic County Utilities Authority East Orange Campus High School Melanie Jackson, AmeriCorps-NJDEP Watershed Asbury Park Middle School, Asbury Park Dennis DeMatte, Cumberland County Improvement Authority East Orange STEM Academy High School Ambassador, WMA 5 Bleshman Regional Day School, Paramus Debbi DePew, Old Bridge Township Gordon Parks Academy, East Orange Paul Jerkins, Director, Atlantic City Department of Public Works Cape May County Compact School, Cape May Court House Jennifer Diluzio, Township of Galloway John J. Costley Middle School, East Orange Pride in Eatontown, Borough of Eatontown Cattus Island Junior Naturalists 2013,Toms River Warden Theodore Hutler, Ocean County Department Margaret Mace School, Wildwood PSE&G Cecily Tyson Elementary School, East Orange of Corrections New Jersey Avenue School, Atlantic City Samsel Upper Elementary School, Sayreville Cecily Tyson High School, East Orange Mark Kelly, Ocean City New York Avenue School, Atlantic City Jackie Wallace, Township of Monroe, Gloucester County Cecily Tyson Middle School, East Orange Joe Mania, City of Paterson Passaic High School, Environmental Club WAWA Cedar Drive Middle School, Colts Neck Richard Medera, City of New Brunswick Patrick F. Healy Middle School, East Orange Fred Wilson, Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority Chelsea Heights School, Atlantic City Richard A. Miller, Cape May Point Richmond Avenue School, Atlantic City Patricia Wood, Township of Jackson Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School, Atlantic City New Jersey Natural Gas Sovereign Avenue School, Atlantic City East Orange Campus High School, East Orange Carlos Perez, City of New Brunswick St. Philips Academy, Newark Ten-Year Service Awards Eleanor Van Gelder School, Edgewater Renee Resky, Township of Livingston Texas Avenue School, Atlantic City Best Practices in Clean Communities Committee, 2009 Goetz Middle School, Jackson Gustavo Perez, Atlantic County Runnemede Green Team Linda Doherty, New Jersey Food Council Scholarship Gordon Parks Academy, East Orange Shape Club, Uptown Complex School, Atlantic City Program, 2007 Grove Street School, Irvington Mark Simpson, Atlantic County Utilities Authority Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy, East Orange Ed Nieliwocki, New Jersey Department of Environmental Hoboken Charter High School, Hoboken Jack Sworaski, Camden County Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Protection, 2003-2013 Joseph P Donahue Elementary School, Barnegat The Island of the Wildwoods East Orange Knadya O’Kelly, Clean Communities Environmental Student Learning Community Charter School, Jersey City Wildwood Convention Center Williamstown Middle School Environmental Club, Monroe Exchange, 2009 Lil Greenies 4H Environmental Club, Alloway Williamstown Middle School, Renaissance Program, Monroe Quamir Payton, Slam Dunk the Junk, 2009 Livingston Little Learners, Livingston Adopt-A-Beach Winslow Elementary School, Vineland McDivitt School, Old Bridge Katie Barnett, Barnegat Bay Blitz Hurricane Sandy Heroes Maria Varisco-Rodgers Charter School, Newark Kimberly Cenno, Delaware River and Bay Dash for the Trash Clean Communities Environmental Student Exchange City of Hoboken – Department of Environmental Services New Horizons Community Charter School, Newark Akili Gordon, Delaware River and Bay Dash for the Trash Anna L Klein School, Guttenberg City of Bayonne – Department of Public Works New York Avenue, Atlantic City Lynette Lurig, Barnegat Bay Blitz Atlantic County Vocational School, Mays Landing County of Hudson – Lincoln Park West Passaic High School Environmental Club, Passaic City Jennifer Noblejas, Delaware River and Bay Dash for the Trash Carl Sandburg Middle School, Old Bridge Friends of Liberty State Park Pinelands Regional Junior High School, Little Egg Harbor Township Ocean Conservancy Cecily L. Tyson Community School of the Performing Ocean County Department of Corrections Richmond Avenue School, Atlantic City Clean Ocean Action & Fine Arts, East Orange Waste Management of New Jersey Samsel Upper Elementary School, Sayreville Emelia A. Oleson Cicely L. Tyson Elementary School, East Orange Sovereign Avenue School, Atlantic City Nature Center of Cape May East Orange Campus High Adopt-A-Beach Awards Stem Academy, East Orange The City of Brigantine Beach, Adopt-a-Beach South Jersey East Orange STEM Academy High School Bergen County Department of Health Services Thurgood Marshall School, Irvington Satellite Office Eleanor VanGeider School, Edgewater Mayor Raymond J. Cywinski Toms River High School South Gordon Parks Academy, East Orange Fair Haven Environmental Commission Toms River Intermediate School South Adopt-A-Highway Hackensack Middle School Park Ridge Green Team Union Avenue Middle School, Irvington Nancy Ciaruffoli, New Jersey Department of Transportation John L. Costley Middle School Starbucks Warwick Institute, East Orange Coca-Cola Maria L. Varisco Rodgers Charter School, Newark Tinton Falls Environmental Commission Williamstown Middle School, Renaissance Braves, Williamstown Giordano Recycling Morristown High School Williamstown Middle School, Caring Gardens, Williamstown James S. Simpson, Commissioner, New Jersey Norman Bleshman Regional Day School, Paramus Woodbine Elementary School, Woodbine NJ Department of Transportation Passaic High School Solar House, Bergen County Special Services School, Paramus Adopt-A-Station Springboard, Bergen County Special Services School, Paramus Knights of Columbus Council 2853, Fairlawn Train Station Queen of Peace High School, North Arlington Westfield Cleanup Crew, Westfield Train Station Williamstown Middle School, Renaissance Program, Monroe

Clean Communities Environmental Student Exchange Bergen County Department of Health Services City of East Orange Township of Monroe

20 21 Dta A report 2003-2011 The NJ Clean Communities Council celebrates a decade of 2003-04 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Est. Total success in promoting a cleaner Reports Collected 370 365 401 413 412 390 509 521 4,030 New Jersey.

Cleanups 12,646 6,948 6,292 5,995 7,143 6,119 16,708 17,995 80,703

Volunteers 86,308 31,893 58,107 58,740 70,877 66,138 20,196 11,154 404,350

Litter Picked Up (tons) 46,584 80,925 90,441 86,826 91,989 85,979 105,483 91,894 680,377

Litter Recycled (tons) 16,538 31,893 45,933 21,177 22,997 21,495 63,187 51,112 275,299

Road Miles Cleaned 19,665 11,726 23,589 22,287 17,441 31,421 79,518 70,624 231,142

Acres Cleaned (not collected) (not collected) 69,423 71,634 76,492 74,857 91,596 43,224 426,820

Citations 5,959 5,230 6,373 3,808 3,948 4,103 18,679 16,874 183,463

Violations 11,911 13,899 18,516 11,883 12,848 11,081 8,170 7,829 95,999

Presentations to Schools 2,473 1,480 1,777 1,741 6,215 10,032 3,126 1,959 29,085

People reached with Clean Communities Messages 543,605 341,195 322,189 401,202 492,348 538,098 461,446 813,252 3.5 million

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