Used Cooking Oil a Possible Revenue Source for Town
Parsippany now accepts cooking oil at recycling center.
Parsippany residents wondering what to do with used cooking oil now have an alternative to pouring it down the sink drain. The recycling center at Pumphouse Road now has a 200-gallon container for the purpose of collecting residents' used kitchen oils, according to Gregory Pavlic, a code enforcement officer with the township's Recycling and Sanitation Department. "People are always asking what they can do with their old cooking oil," Pavlic said. "Until now, the town didn't have a way to handle that, and there is a big demand for this." But then Pavlic noticed that Darling International Inc., a Newark firm that according to its website specializes in rendering, recycling and recovery solutions to the nation's food industry, had …
clyde donovan
2:40 am on Saturday, July 21, 2012
So after we pay the salary, pension, benefits, etc of a Sanitation and Recycling code enforcement officer to oversee the collection of grease, will the township turn a profit collecting this crap? I doubt it. On second thought we need a police captain to be Parsippany's Captain of Grease and Oil at $150,000 per year. You never know when someone will try to steal some of Parsippany's priceless … more ›