Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • April 13, 2011 Ho-Ho-Kus Hoop masters The girls sixth grade Ho-Ho-Kus/Saddle River travel basketball team won both the regular season league championship and the playoff championship of the Northwest Bergen Passaic Girls Basketball League. The team had a 141 regular season and then beat a very talented Franklin Lakes team in the championship playoff game. The team consisted of Katelyn Ewell, Paige Stapleton, Sarah Minchin, Kate Rice, Victoria Marino, Grace Hinchen, Kate Spence, Melina North, Lauren Donato, and Eva Hurm. The coaches are Todd Ewell, Ken Stapleton, and Chris Minchin. Local operation deemed profitable by Jennifer Crusco Responding to a resident’s request for a study of the recycling center, Ho-Ho-Kus Borough Administrator Don Cirulli reported that the municipality’s recycling program is already a profitable one. At a recent council session, resident Stanley Kober asked the council to consider how revenues might be increased at the recycling center, adding that better separated materials might yield more money. Jeff Pattman, the borough’s superintendent of buildings, grounds, and roads, recently told Villadom TIMES that improved separation of recyclable materials at the DPW yard could help the borough earn more for its recyclables, but pointed out that he currently does not have the manpower necessary to enforce more stringent requirements. “If we had volunteers to watch the operation, that would help,” Pattman said. He pointed out that the borough can accept plastics labeled #1 and #2, but residents drop off all types of plastic items, including children’s toys. He also said the recycling center cannot accept hazardous waste, including paint and batteries, but these items are sometimes left at the center. “It’s up to us to go to Bergen County to recycle (hazardous waste), and that’s overtime for the DPW,” Pattman said. Cirulli said the amount of money the borough realizes from its recycling program varies depending on the volume and types of materials being collected each month. The administrator estimated that, on average, the borough receives between $3,000 and $7,000 per month. He pointed out that there is no simple answer as far as what the borough receives, as various companies purchase selected materials at different price points. “We get checks from different companies that accept different materials,” he said. As examples, Cirulli said Cinelli buys metal from the borough, and Green Sky purchases corrugated cardboard. Cirulli also distinguished between the borough’s collection of recyclable materials, and the operation at the borough’s DPW site. He explained that, when residents bring recyclables to the DPW, the individual materials must be separated. However, when Suburban Disposal, Inc. collects recyclables from individual homes, the materials may be presented in a commingled state. Cirulli added that, when the hauler picks up the materials from local homes, the recyclables become the property of that company. The hauler, he said, then brings the recyclables to a separation center, where the items are sorted for the company’s own use. In related news, the Ho-Ho-Kus Council recently approved a resolution that endorses the submission of the recycling tonnage grant application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Cirulli has been charged with ensuring that the application is properly filed. According to that resolution, monies received from the recycling tonnage grant will be deposited in a dedicated recycling trust fund to be used solely for the purposes of recycling. The resolution notes that the Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act established a recycling fund from which tonnage grants may be made to municipalities with the goal of encouraging local source separation and recycling programs. “It is the intent and the spirit of the Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act to use the tonnage grants to develop new municipal recycling programs and to continue and to expand existing programs,” the resolution states. 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