PATCO Stations going green; DRPA joins Beautiful New Jersey campaign
Written by jrood
On July 22, PATCO begins the process of recycling newspapers, glass and plastic with the placement of special trash receptacles at the Lindenwold, Ashland and Woodcrest Stations. The special green receptacles with a recycling decal will be located mostly on the station platforms although they will be available in other locations. The program will be expanded to include all other PATCO stations including the four subway stations in Philadelphia.
According to PATCO
General Manager Bob Box, "public transportation provides a very friendly
environmental way to travel and this recycling program represents yet another
way that PATCO and its customers can take part in our go green initiative."
PATCO now joins the DRPA’s
four bridge facilities and its headquarters One Port Center in Camden in
implementing single stream municipal waste recycling.
DRPA Deputy CEO, Robert
Gross, said, "The Authority is making daily choices to minimize potential environmental
impacts. Our plan is to integrate environmental considerations in all
aspects of our operations at all of our facilities."
DRPA CEO and PATCO
President, John Matheussen, said, "The New Jersey Department of Transportation
recently began a coordinated and continuing cleanup campaign called Beautiful
New Jersey. We are pleased to be part of this quality of life issue and will
move forward with other activities in the future."
In addition to the PATCO
initiative, the DRPA will take additional steps to compliment the efforts of
the Beautiful New Jersey cleanup campaign. COO, Tim Pulte, said, "we will have maintenance crews at the
Betsy Ross, Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman and Commodore Barry Bridges and at PATCO
making a special effort to clean up trash and graffiti."
