Soil Safe Passes 1.5 Million tons of Recycled Soil at Carteret Facility

Soil Recycling Company Meets all Recycling and Remediation Goals

CARTERET, NJ – December 2017 – On May 8, 2014, Soil Safe accepted its first truckload of soil at a newly-opened facility in Carteret. Today, the company is celebrating the milestone of recycling 1.5 million tons of dirt at the 125-acre site on the Rahway River.

“We are pleased with the brisk progress of our work and the fact we are moving quicker than expectations,” said Mark Smith, president of Soil Safe. “Our goal is to ultimately recycle 3 million tons of soil in Carteret, capping the site with engineered fill. We expect to quickly reach our number.”

The project, which received strong approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection and has the enthusiastic support of municipal and county officials, is preserving and enhancing 40 acres of wetlands, while remediating 85 acres of contaminated ground.

This recycled soil is capping contaminated sludge, which had been exposed to humans, wildlife and the elements for decades. Workers are controlling the sludge pits through engineering controls surpassing modern-day environmental regulation, finally cutting off the tons of cyanide and other harmful materials seeping into the Rahway river each year.

As operators of a project-specific Class B Recycling facility, Soil Safe is producing the engineered product needed to remediate the site. Meanwhile, millions of dollars are being generated from the recycling revenues as host community benefits which are used for other recreational and environmental improvements in Carteret.

Learn more at www.carteretclean.com and www.soilsafe.com