Following a massive fire at a recycling plant in Passaic County on Jan. 30, Ocean County officials are reminding residents to make sure items tossed into household recycling bins do not pose any hazards.
Although the exact cause is under investigation for the 11-alarm fire in North Jersey – at a center, now totally destroyed, operated by Atlantic Coast Fibers, which also runs Ocean County’s Northern Recycling Center in Lakewood – fires have become more common at recycling plants in recent years…
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