Ralph Perrone Sr. started a little research. It’s the equivalent of fishing for garbage to find out who is throwing garbage in a large trash can outside of your commercial facility.

It could be a receipt with someone’s name on it, a cardboard box with a packaging label with a mailing address, or a building material that matches a project in progress at a nearby facility. .

He doesn’t just fill his dumplings. It’s illegal and it costs Perone money.

So he helped crack down on illegal dumping with the help of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and the State Law Firm. This includes educating law enforcement agencies about this problem and the illegality of putting garbage in other people’s commercial dumplings. State attorney Phil Archer has said he will prosecute such cases.

Perone said that when he followed suspects and visited them or followed them by phone, most people didn’t know what they were doing was illegal.

But yes. Illegal dumping can result in three felony charges if the offender is caught.

Nonetheless, Waste Management Inc. owns a commercial building if the pellets are overflowing, that is, if there is garbage on the edge of the pellets, or if there is a pile of garbage next to it. dumplings. Will charge additional fees known as “overage fees”.

And Perone was nailed to $ 100 to $ 200 a month for overflowing dumplings as a result of other people’s trash piling up on his property in Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral, Cocoa and Rockledge. Say it.

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David Dowdy, chief maintenance worker at Perrone Properties, reviews surveillance camera videos destined for employer dumplings to track people who have items illegally dumped in dumplings.

“They are guilty of three crimes when companies throw their garbage in your dumpster to save money and avoid paying for the proper disposal of that garbage,” Archer wrote in a letter to Perone. Noted. “The amount of garbage does not matter because the amount for commercial purposes is a crime. “

Mr Perone said the rules were correct, but it was a problem for people to dump garbage illegally.

“We all have big problems with the illegal dumping of front loaders in dumpsters. We are responsible, ”said Perone. “Business enterprises in areas where there is no contractor, lawn service, tree service, neighborhood residential area, pellet service or too few pellets are illegally throwing waste and debris to front loader pellets from other businesses and property owners. I keep putting it on. “

He said if something sticks out from the edge or the lid doesn’t close, the owner can be charged.

“When a waste management driver takes a photo, there is an additional charge for the next bill,” he said.

Frank Perone Sr. says he was nailed to $ 100 to $ 200 a month for overflowing dumplings as a result of other people's trash buildup at his commercial facility.

Perone recently said she found a palm log in one of her dumplings. On another occasion he found concrete. In either case, waste management didn’t empty the pellets until the material was removed, and Perone changed the surcharge to return the garbage truck for unscheduled pickups, he said. Said.

Elsewhere, Perone and his staff found employees of a neighboring company throwing trash into dumplings owned by Perone Property.

“The employees said, ‘The owner’s meatballs are always full, so we’re using your meatballs. I thought you didn’t care, ”Perone recalls.

Perone was worried. He decides to call the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for help. According to Perone, the manager of a neighboring company was visited by two deputy sheriffs to explain the illegality of what the company was doing.

Perone puts a yellow sign in red on the dumplings in the commercial facility, warning people that it is illegal to put garbage in the dumplings unless they are tenants of the commercial facility. It also has a surveillance camera aimed at the pellets to catch the offender.

As recently as last week, security footage captured someone putting an old mattress on one of Perone’s dumplings.

Then in another place where the dumplings are locked, someone threw old chairs and other garbage next to the dumplings.

Next to that locked dumpling on Merritt Island in real estate owned by Ralph Perone Sr., someone threw an old chair and other trash.

Keep it ‘clean’ with Breverd

Waste Management Inc, Florida. Community affairs manager Amy Boyson said it was nothing new for her company to enforce rules on the overflow of commercial dumplings.

“Customers have to take some responsibility for their containers,” Boyson said. “It’s just a way to keep our community clean. Garbage is blown around the neighborhood and dumplings flood a pile of unsightly garbage bags.

According to Boyson, a waste management program called CLEAN (acronym for Community Waste Environmental Protection Awareness Notice) addresses this problem. The program is implemented locally at Brevard, Cocoa Beach, Indian Harbor Brach, Melbourne, Satellite Beach and West Melbourne unincorporated under waste management agreements with these jurisdictions. She said the program has also been added to Cocoa and Indialantic.

The contractual languages ​​that allow overage charges vary slightly from community to community. For example, the Brevard County Unincorporated Contract states that the waste parameter that triggers the exceedance is “more than 12 inches from the top of the container” or “solid waste on the ground.” There are.

According to Boyson, waste management drivers use their on-board computers to take digital photos of overflowing or lying waste on the ground.

Ralph Perone Sr. has put such a sign on its commercial dumplings to reduce illegal dumping.

In a letter to Waste Management’s business customers where the violation was found, the company stated: customer. “

According to Boyson, if the trash can is full, you have several options, such as buying larger dumplings. Addition of a recycling container. Schedule more pickups per week. You can also install a special “locking bar” on the dumpster to make it accessible only to tenants and garbage carriers.

“The goal of the award is to bring the customer’s attention to a service that is the right size to meet their needs,” Boyson said.

Archer has said he would like to let the public know that his office will be prosecuted for illegal dumping in the trash, as will seven felony cases and seven local misdemeanors since 2017. ..

For non-profit dumping, there are various provisions in state law. Depending on the amount of waste involved, it could be three felonies, one misdemeanor, or a non-criminal offense with a civil penalty, Archer said.

But in the case of commercial dumping, it is still a crime three times.

Archer said his office will work with local law enforcement authorities who have questions about the details of the waste and the adequacy of certain investigations.

But Archer wanted the criminals to know their actions were illegal and added that they wouldn’t do it in the first place.

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