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TRENTON — The state Department of Agriculture will collect plastic pesticide containers for recycling program at three South Jersey locations, Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced.
 
The department will have 21 separate collection days April through November at collection sites in Hammonton (Atlantic County), Deerfield (Cumberland County), and Woodstown (Salem County).
 
“We have seen an increasing interest in recycling agricultural materials, especially plastic pesticide containers, in recent years,” said  Fisher.  “This recycling program offers pesticide applicators and businesses a free, easy and responsible way to dispose of these containers that once would end up in landfills.”
 
Last year’s collection exceeded the amount collected in 2008 by 111 percent. To date, more than 115,000 pounds of plastic pesticide containers have been kept out of the landfills.
 
Launched in 2002, the program, a cooperative effort between the Department, the Atlantic County Utilities Authority, Helena Chemical, Cumberland County Improvement Authority, Salem County Improvement Authority, and the Salem County Board of Agriculture, collects plastic pesticide containers from all categories of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection licensed pesticide applicators and custom application businesses.
 
Among the uses for the recycled plastic are fence posts, pallets, underground utility conduit, speed bumps, parking stops, marine pilings and field drain tiles.
 
All three collection sites also will be accepting clean cardboard since the pesticide containers are distributed in cardboard boxes.
 
In addition, the Department offers year-round mulch film and drip irrigation tape recycling and has information on recycling nursery pots, plastic flats, trays, and cell packs.

Plastic could be recycled continually without any waste, after a breakthrough was made by scientists.

The material weakens so much on recycling that after its original use for packaging or containers, it is often sent to landfill.

Researchers from Stanford University and IBM used ‘organic catalysts’ to break down polyethylene terephthalate plastic to its building blocks, while maintaining its original strength – allowing it to be recycled once again as bottles and containers.

According to lead researcher Chandrasekhar Narayan, the discovery has already led to new projects which could result in recyclable plastics being on the market within the next two years.

The innovation could have a substantial impact on the UK government’s recently-announced targets for reducing the five million tonnes of household packaging waste created in the UK annually.

Several household names committed to the government’s second phase of a long-term plan to reduce packaging waste potentially saving eight million tonnes from landfill by 2020.