Officials are noodling over a pasta mystery in New Jersey.
Hundreds of pounds of pasta were dumped in the woods along a stream at Veterans Park in Old Bridge, New Jersey.More than 500 pounds of pasta was dumped in the woods last week, including ziti, spaghetti and other noodles.Nina Jochnowitz"The township has no bulk garbage pickup," Nina Jochnowitz said. "And the funny dump this time was pasta, which you all picked up."
This instance of illegal dumping may seem like a bizarre one-off occurrence, but Jochnowitz said it points to the larger issue of bulk garbage. She said financial constraint sometimes prevents people from properly disposing of large items like couches. Some people have taken to secret and illegal dumping as their go-to answer. WABC-TV found a spot a few hundred feet from a waterway with televisions, grills, bedroom furniture and construction material.
"I got four dumpsters and filled them with tires furniture," Eskesen said. "All this stuff that floats up constantly. It gets cleaned up. A week later it's back again."
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