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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Spring Cleaning Trips to Middletown Recycling: What to Know Before You Go

Dumping details to figure in before you load up your vehicle

Spring cleaning is a natural reaction to three or more months' worth of winter confinement. With the weather finally agreeing with ambition, all those projects that have been placed on the back burner since late-October can finally get under way. With this newfound urgency will likely come a desire to get rid of some stuff, but before you start throwing it all away, there are things to consider. Do I know someone who could use this? Materials that are in relatively good condition but are no longer of interest might serve someone else’s. The set of tennis rackets hanging in the back of the garage might never come down again for you, but perhaps you know a tennis enthusiast who could put them to use. Do I know how I can sell this? Garage …

Sunday, February 20, 2011

It may be a dump, but it's home

Monmouth County Reclamation Center Superintendent Richard Throckmorton lives where he works and tends to grounds, emergencies, your trash

Living at a landfill may not seem to be a win-win situation, but for Richard Throckmorton, and for Monmouth County, it works out very well. The benefit for Throckmorton, superintendent of the Monmouth County Reclamation Center, is that he lives on 800-acres surrounded by a buffer and it’s rent-free. All he has to do is pay the utilities on the three-bedroom house that was built in the 1960s. And he had to furnish the house to make it his home. He thinks of it as good news for himself and the residents and businesses that surround the landfill, located on Asbury Avenue in Tinton Falls, because if anything smells fishy, he is there to check it out. Throckmorton, 53, explained that the county had a number of dwellings on the site that they …

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