County to Hold Crisis Response Fair, Recycle Shrink Wrap

County sponsors crisis response Resource Fair June 1
Freeholders are sponsoring a Resource Fair by the Traumatic Loss Coalition (TLC) for Youth Program in collaboration with the Burlington County School Crisis Response Team on Wednesday, June 1 from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at the Burlington County Special Services School District’s Main Gym, 20 Pioneer Blvd. in Westampton.  

Various agencies throughout Burlington County will be available to discuss their services and answer questions.

Attendees can learn about the TLC in Burlington County, the School Crisis Response Team and the various community agencies throughout the county and how to access their services.  

The Resource Fair is open to the public at no charge and today is the deadline for registration. Informational handouts and light refreshments will be available.

TLC is New Jersey’s primary youth suicide prevention program and provides timely information and assistance with suicide prevention and trauma response to schools and communities following deaths due to suicide, homicide, accident and illness. 

It's funded by the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF), Division of Child Behavioral Health Services (DCBHS). It operates as a county-based collaborative with a TLC Coordinator in each county.  For more information and/or registration, contact Traumatic Loss Coalition Coordinator Elfrieda Francis in the Burlington County Health Department, Office of Human Services at 609-265-5538 or Carrie Long at clong@bcsssd.k12.nj.us.

County recycles marine plastic shrink wrap
Burlington County is now accepting boat shrink wrap for recycling from marinas and boat owners through June 30 to save disposal costs and landfill space.  

Riverside Marina in Delran, and Viking Yacht Center in Bass River are serving as drop sites. Boaters and neighboring marinas may bring their shrink wrap to these sites through the end of June.

Burlington County has approximately 12 marinas that can benefit from this program started in 2007. The county will bale the material at its recycling center in Westampton and has a market for the shrink wrap.

Plastic shrink wrap used by marinas and boat owners is a waste disposal problem because of the hundreds of tons of shrink wrap that are discarded statewide each spring. Boaters and marinas who wish to participate must remove all nonshrink wrap materials such as doors, zippers, rope and strapping. The shrink wrap must be clean and dry, and rolled into manageable bundles about four to five-feet wide.

Shrink wrap can be delivered to the Riverside Marina on Norman Avenue Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For information on deliveries to the Viking Yachting Center on Route 9 in New Gretna, call 296-2388.  For more information, contact the Recycling Office at 609-499-1001, ext. 271.