Dear Editor:
Recycle in most places substandard; since the law was enacted “Mandatory Recycling” in April 1987. Accumulative effects of being lax increases or keeps steady the costs, while damaging the environment. It also encourages to the public the attitude of laxness and proper conscience discipline. In places like Parsippany conditions like lax sanitation/recycle ordnances should not be tolerated or excepted as norm. It is all to easy to simply pass off costs to taxpayers divided among those citizens whom do care and separate materials and others that do not. They do not’s reap this reward and all suffers especially nature and the nations resources.
Above photo was taken in Ringwood. These receptacles are present and accounted for at most small malls and store area. Why should Parsippany be any different? Most large Shopping establishments and Mall areas at totally lacking in this responsibility. How are we allowed to continue not at least in better attempts to manage our tremendous waste? We have allowed this norm of trash/litter and undisciplined home and business practices to exist; time to attempt a change. Ordinances of this type; clean community, sanitation, housing, must be enforced and encourage constantly.
Parsippany needs more than one sanitation officer of inspection and needs to enforce/fine repeated offenders, until things improve. Parsippany has several Municipal Offices, Housing, Health, Roads, Stormwater, Parks Forestry, Planning, Zoning, all seem oblivious to this on-going sub-standard norm.
The civil law of “usufruct” seems no longer to exist in society, how is that? A Civil Law term referring to the right of one individual to use and enjoy the property of another, provided its substance is neither impaired nor altered. lack of street cleaning, and waste separation disciplines hurts us all now and into the future. Witnessing a local employee watering the flower pots along North Beverwyck and leaving the trash in front of the flower pot unabated in the street after watering the flowers, shows a serious disconnect, between the Municipal Work Force and the community that employs them; this disconnect with reality exists everywhere. Is this the American exceptionalism that allegedly makes us somehow superior?
By officials continuing to ignore or deny these circumstances our society slips further into empty and fake values. Without civic virtue or consciences we are meaningless insects consuming the planet and ruining the beauty and grace of god and man, our own worse enemies into a class of people whom share an uncaring individual mind-set. Right now Parsippany tax payers are inflicted with an almost $2 million dollar sanitation expenditure. Guess that amount is not enough to warrant any actions by this administration to at least try to do better.
They have accepted the down-fall of the condition as normal. As the saying goes these colors (This Flag) don’t run. We also don’t clean or enforce basic clean community duties and responsibilities any longer. Dirty Streets, dirty rivers and streams. Name one place where plastic and other debris is not present, and ready to spread further and further into the fabric of Mother Nature? What are we really celebrating on July 4th? We seem to be celebrating the lack of common sense in all sphere of sustainable life.
Finally: Waste disposal costs money. Your local community pays about $75 per ton of general trash to dispose of this waste at a landfill or incinerator. You are paying for this waste disposal through your local taxes or through trash haulage fees. (believe Parsippany in nearly $2Million in fees a year)
By reducing the amount of waste you generate or sending materials for recycling you not only reduce the waste disposal costs for your community but your local town profits from the sale of these materials to recycling companies. The more you recycle the more money a community can make from the recycling collection and consequently the more money the town has to spend on local schools and other services.
Recycling helps conserve valuable resources and energy.
Recycling helps to protect the environment.
Nick Homyak
Lake Hiawatha
