Watchung Environmental Awareness

05/19/2026

Hooray! The Farmers' Market returns on June 2nd!

04/30/2026

04/08/2026

Free document shredding this Saturday! Rain or shine. Details below.

03/20/2026

The Watchung Environmental Commission will host an Earth Day service event on Saturday, April 25, 2026, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Volunteers are needed to help maintain the award-winning riparian buffer at Best Lake. Dress for gardening. Tools will be provided. Temporary parking will be available for volunteers east of Best Lake.

Questions? Please email [email protected]

See you there!

02/13/2026

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is repealing its own scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, making climate denial official government policy. They are effectively abandoning their responsibility to protect us from dangerous pollution.

Please click on the photo to sign a letter to our representatives in Congress.

We must push our elected officials in Congress to hold this administration accountable for gutting health and climate protections.

02/09/2026

The US Senate could vote as soon as tomorrow on a.bill overturning a 20-year mining moratorium in the Boundary Waters Wilderness watershed!

Please call Senators Booker and Kim TODAY at (202) 224-3121, and urge them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140.

Fight now moves to the senate, so take action

12/05/2025

An opportunity to recycle e-waste

SOMERSET COUNTY -
Proof of Somerset County residency is required. Accepted documents include a valid driver's license, lease, tax bill, or utility bill. Businesses and commercial vehicles are NOT permitted. Pre-registration is not required.

FIRST SATURDAY
The First Saturday Drop-off will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Somerset County Recycling Center, located at 40 Polhemus Lane, Bridgewater, NJ 08807. Residents must stay inside their vehicles while staff unload all recyclable materials.

Items Accepted: Drop off up to eight tires – with or without rims, scrap metal, used motor oil, oil filters, antifreeze, and the usual curbside materials, including plastic bottles, and food containers marked #1 through #7. Accepted chipboard items include gift, shoe, shirt, and all retail boxes, as well as cereal, cookie, pasta, cake and cracker boxes without the plastic liners, poster board, backing from writing pads, and empty dried-out steel paint cans.

Items NOT Accepted: Somerset County does NOT accept textiles at First Saturday of the Month Drop-off. Residents should continue to recycle used textiles at any local charity donation bin. For more information, contact the Somerset County Recycling Center at (732) 469-3363 or visit www.somersetcountynj.gov/recycle.

ELECTRONIC WASTE DROP-OFF
The Electronic Waste Drop-off event runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the South County Public Works Garage, located at 410 Roycefield Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844. Residents should expect to remain in their vehicles unless otherwise instructed by staff.

Items Accepted: Computers, monitors, televisions, printers, scanners, cameras, DVD players, e-book readers, VCRs, phones, circuit boards, modems, cables, wiring, power supplies, and controllers.

Items NOT Accepted: Batteries are not accepted. Residents can recycle household hazardous waste, including lithium and rechargeable batteries, at scheduled Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off events.