Mounds of spaghetti and piles of other pastas, including ziti, were seemingly dumped by the stream near Veterans Park in Old Bridge, according to images posted by resident Nina Jochnowitz last Wedn…
“Don’t forget his partner Lin Guini,” a person added.Hundreds of pounds of pasta can be seen dumped near Veterans Park in Old Bridge.“It was pasta expiration date,” they said.“We should send the perpetrators to the state penne tentiary,” the user joked.
Nina Jochnowitz, a resident of the area, estimated that there had to be more than 500 pounds of pasta left behind.There were mounds of other pastas, including ziti, that were dumped by the stream near Veterans Park in Old Bridge.“I don’t know. If we do that, I’m alfredo what will happen to them,” a concerned citizen replied.
However, she said the so-called pasta dump illustrates the larger issue Old Bridge is facing with illegal dumping and a lack of bulk garbage pickup.OLD BRIDGE New Jersey/Facebook Soon after Jochnowitz posted about the ordeal and reported the food waste to the township, the town’s Public Works rushed to the scene and cleared the noodles.
“You might say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH level that will impact the water stream,” she told the Inquirer. “That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town’s water supply … It was one of the fastest cleanups I’ve ever seen here.”
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