Community News

Covanta Essex is proud of its record of sustainably managing waste for 22 municipalities in Essex County and the surrounding region. Our state-of-the-art facility produces energy and preserves metal for recycling, allowing for a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to landfilling.

On Earth Day Covanta Essex participated in the City of Newark’s Slam Dunk the Junk. A team of employees gathered to clean and prepare Westside Salvation Army for spring. Executive Director, Nemin Jaya, expressed his gratitude for Covanta’s servitude. Covanta was also one of the sponsors and vendors ...

The Hawkins Street School gave a great big THANK YOU video message to Covanta Essex for supporting the students and families of the school. The students enjoyed the donation of books for their school’s “Warm Up with a Good Book” event, as well as winter hats and gloves.

Ms. Jones, the librarian at Hawkins Street Elementary School, wanted to ensure that all the students had the cold weather necessities before leaving for winter recess. She decided to reach out to Covanta Essex to supply hats and gloves for all 750 students. Covanta Essex employees were more than ...

Covanta Essex partnered with Jersey Cares to ensure that one hundred and four (104) families from Hawkins Street School in Newark, NJ received a healthy meal for the Thanksgiving holiday. Covanta employees happily distributed food bags to families of the community. The community members expressed ...

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, annual ceremonial services were held across the nation where families, friends, and loved ones remember those lost and the events of that day. The Covanta Essex team honored those lost on that infamous day with an American flag highlighted in blue to ...

Covanta Essex was excited to host its first official Open Meeting for 2021! Local community members and stakeholders were invited to join employees from the facility at the Blueprint Café, right down the road from the facility in Newark, for some refreshments and discourse.

Covanta’s New Jersey facilities (Essex, Union, and Camden) were proudly represented this Juneteenth at the NAACP celebration in Rahway, NJ. Covanta Essex Chief Engineer, Luther Johnson, addressed his hometown crowd alongside Human Resources Manager Claudia Rodriguez. Check out the video below for ...

The first ever Green Star Outreach awards were recently handed out to deserving Covanta facilities and employees! The Green Star Awards recognize Covanta facilities and employees for exemplary efforts to educate and support our local communities and organizations. Covanta Essex was a recipient of ...

Employees at Covanta Essex stepped up and met the #Trashtag Challenge this past April! The Challenge was designed by Covanta’s Sustainability Employee Resource Group (ERG) to encourage individual facilities to hold cleanup events within their communities.