Trivia: Hazardous Waste Dumps in New Jersey

Posted by Alex in Daily Trivia, Travel & Places on March 20, 2008 at 5:56 am


There are more hazardous waste sites in New Jersey than anywhere else in the United States.

In 1998, The Garden State had 109 hazardous waste sites on the national priorities list for the federal Superfund program or 8.7% of the national total. The state’s land area is just 0.2% of the United States. New Jersey’s hazardous waste density (the number of sites per 1,000 square miles) was 14.7 or 40 times the national average. (Source: A Geography of New Jersey: The City in the Garden by Charles A. Stansfield)


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11 comments to "Trivia: Hazardous Waste Dumps in New Jersey"

  1. Camillo Miller
    March 20th, 2008 at 6:56 am

    Ah, no wonder! You know, it's the same problem that faces the Campania Region here in Italy (heard about the trash piles in Naples?). Well, guess who obscurely ruled in the waste management market during the last decades in both Campania and New Jersey? Bravo! The Mafia and the Camorra. With the silent approval of politics of course.

  2. dan
    March 20th, 2008 at 7:27 am

    i love my state =)

  3. DanO
    March 20th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    well it is the armpit of america

  4. alison
    March 20th, 2008 at 8:48 am

    ohh, why'd you have to post this? the rest of the country doesn't need more ammo!

  5. Dave
    March 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Guess that explains a lot of things.

  6. Jerse
    March 20th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    My kind of place :)

  7. Scotchdrnkr
    March 20th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    I just skimmed the article so I may have missed something. But I wonder why it has so much hazardous waste.
    I could see New Mexico and Nevada because of all the Nuclear research and weapons development that happens there. But why New Jersey?
    Of course when I think of Hazmat. I think Nuclear & Chemical mostly. But even Gas stations are considered Hazardous sites because of fuel leakage.

  8. Dave9
    March 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am

    You know the reason New Jersey has all the toxic waste and California has all the lawyers right? It's because New Jersey got first pick! Thank you thank you, i'll be here all week, tip your waitress...

  9. L
    March 20th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Aren't the rates of autism in New Jersey the highest in the country? Hmmm...

  10. emptyminded
    March 20th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    New Jersey is the "Garden State". But seriously, maybe this explains why civil engineers in New Jersey think that traffic circles are a good thing. I will drive 100 miles out of my way just to avoid one.

  11. DreamMrSandman
    March 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    I'm so sick of everyone targeting NJ with jokes. Why can't they make fun of any other state??! It's actually really pretty in a lot of parts of nj, it's not completely gross, freaking seriously people, if it's not cool to pick on a disabled person who can't help teh way they are then don't freaking pick on NJ im so sick of all your stereotypes.


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