Local waste company J.
P. Mascaro & Sons has been awarded a two-year service contract valued in
excess of $400,000 to serve the residents of the Borough of Dupont, Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania, starting January 1, 2020.
Mascaro is Dupont's
first private contractor, as previously, the Borough provided the collection services
in-house. Sam Augustine, Mascaro's
Director of Sales and Marketing, noted, "We are pleased that the Borough
selected our company to privatize its collection services. Dupont is one in a long line of
municipalities that have selected our company to privatize their collection services
based upon our experience and service record, and we look forward to serving
Dupont's residents for the next two years." Mascaro's Wyoming Division will be responsible
for providing once a week trash collection services to the Dupont households.
J. P. Mascaro & Sons
is a local company, founded and headquartered in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
and is the largest privately-owned waste company in the Northeast. The company
was founded by Joseph P. Mascaro, Sr. and is operated by his four sons. Today,
the company has the benefit of an emerging third generation of family members
to guide the company into the future. The Mascaro Company possesses a strategic
infrastructure of recycling, transfer and disposal facilities in the local
region that has enabled it to be the major provider of municipal services in
the area.