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Township Needs to instill Uniform Sanitation Work Disciplines
What is so hard about doing a simple job task correctly especially if you represent and are being paid by the town taxpayers; No excuse!
Sanitation Workforce Disciplines and Common Goals
What Laissez Faire has wrought us in waste product production..We need to get mad about what has allowed to happen to our common places, by corporate irresponsibility, and use our municipal power against it..
Last evening Council June 9th my comments concerning differences in work crew practices from Parsippany, and Whippany as observed on May 10th the same day trash pick up in Parsippany's S. Beverwyck Ave section and corresponding Reynolds area in Whippany. Councilman Carifi's rebuttal, was also revealing in the diversity within Parsippany sanitation crews behaviors; as he stated his neighborhoods crew, were doing a good job; not spilling trash, and placing resident trash/recycling containers back in their place on the resident's property.
I assure you this is not the case; in my observations of most of the Township. It can only be one explanation; being lack of proper supervision and proper indoctrination into the workforces duties and responsibilities, in keeping the community policed from improper sanitation best practices.
We do have an inspector whom, rarely is seen, even in reported chronic ongoing situations or addresses. The town should not depend only on "Report a Concern"risking confrontation with neighbors; who may refuse to conform, even after speaking or attempting to speak me.
According to N.J.A.C. 7:26A-1.3, “source separation” or “ source separated” means, the process by which recyclable materials are separated at the point of generation by the generator thereof, from solid waste for the purposes of recycling.
We see Parsippany lacks, or has substandard expectations of taking this law; or responsibility seriously; especially in commercial zones like North Beverwyck Avenue. Plastic pollution along its reaches and associated spaces has become a norm. Duty of the business owners to keep their immediate spaces free from debris is never enforced.
Parsippany for years had been using a recycling market that didn’t care about quality, which went bankrupt, and bad habits were developed in Parsippany where they accepted everything. I know Parsippany now uses a different recycling market that is more concerned with quality and the materials Parsippany picks up will get better and better as the market provides feedback on what is dropped off. This relationship is still new so some of the old bad habits may take some time to change.
Laissez Faire No place in Community Workforce
It appears little improvement has occurred; as no sanitation laws are enforced. Mixed trashed is all too common, and apartment complexes seem to have escaped their responsibility in any needed improvements. Knoll Gardens is just one example.
Regarding the photos of recyclables in the containers, that once again is a municipal issue as to what service, collection and containers, they decide to provide. The costs for all of these matters fall on the Town of Parsippany and not the County or MCMUA so I cannot provide the detail information you are seeking.
Watch what you ask for or think you may need or want
Parsippany's business community and corporate franchises are everyday inflicting negative impacts in degrading our community, and costing us in added fees at the tipping station for contaminated trash. The so-called litter tax falls short of generating any remedy or proper abatements. The generators of the waste products especially of the single use plastic products of 7-11, Quickchek, McDonalds and many more need to end these products of instant waste and pollution; or take an expanded responsibility toward the community in the scope of their duties assigned to their employees, including hiring addition custodian elements for on and off premises to police their products.
From the street to the stormdrain to the rivers, landscapes and into our Oceans, senseless products of waste must come to an end. In a short "historical time span" of fifty years or so, we have filled planet earth with corporate plastic pollution; they the corporations escape and evade all responsibility for profit, inflicting us with their products of irresponsible production and unnecessary use; in many cases.
When will we say enough? More Plastic Bans !
We need to get mad about what corporate power has done to our America; If corporations are people they are bad ones. We need more and expanded single use product bans. and our State and Federal legislation must act and stop the denial, America is not beautiful it's full of trash, we have turned nature and our common places into a convenient trash dump...When will we see the last step of the corporate cult of convenience is "simply toss it"..encouraged by senseless advertising media; in the name of profit over all life!
