New!
2025 Recycling Info
and Schedule
for Mercer County
Plastics #1, #2 and – now – #5 are allowable!
New!
2025 Recycling Info
and Schedule
for Mercer County
Plastics #1, #2 and – now – #5 are allowable!
CALLING ALL ARTISTS! The Mercer County Library System is hosting its 16th Annual TrashedArt Contest. Remake, reuse and renew the items you would recycle or throw away into something unique and beautiful! Entries will be accepted from Tuesday, Feb. 25th through Tuesday, March 4th. Contest details here.
Can California’s climate-related fire disasters affect insurance rates nationwide, including here in NJ? It’s a grim reality.
Mercer County has received a $2.9 million grant for developing the Great Western Bikeway Projects that connects four towns including Lawrence Township, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) said.
President Joe Biden recently announced an executive action that will permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo.
Geothermal heat pumps (GHP), also known as ground-source heat pumps, can heat, cool, and even supply hot water to a home by transferring heat to or from the ground.
GHPs take advantage of these constant below ground temperatures to heat homes in the winter and cool them in the summer.
This ground temperature is warmer than the air above it during the winter and cooler than the air in the summer. The GHP takes advantage of the constant subsurface temperatures by exchanging heat with the earth through a ground heat exchanger. The ground provides a type of thermal energy storage, which allows GHPs to act as a heat sink—absorbing excess heat during summer, when surface temperatures are relatively higher—and as a heat source during the winter, when surface temperatures are lower. This increases efficiency and reduces the energy used to heat and cool homes.
For more info on this increasingly popular heating/cooling alternative, see here.
