Transfer station receives permit
State DEP issues 10-year renewal for Great Valley Bridgeport facility
AUDUBON >> The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), has renewed J.P. Mascaro & Sons’ permit for its Great Valley Recycle Transfer Station in Bridgeport, Montgomery County.
The 10-year permit authorizes Mascaro to transfer up to 600 tons of municipal waste and residual waste per day, Monday through Saturday.
“In today’s highly regulated waste industry, we understand how difficult it is to earn a DEP solid waste facility permit, and we are extremely pleased to have done so for the GVR Transfer Station.” — Pat Mascaro, president, J.P. Mascaro & Sons
Great Valley Recycling is a Mascaro transfer station and recycling facility, and is an approved facility under Montgomery County’s Act 101 Municipal Waste Management Plan, according to a press release.
At the facility, waste is transferred in a fully-enclosed building, where collection vehicles dump their loads onto a concrete tipping floor and where experienced operators visually inspect the material before it is processed. The waste is then loaded onto over-the-road transport vehicles for delivery to end disposal
facilities, according to the company.
The recycling operation processes singlestream recyclables and cardboard, baling material and transporting it to third parties
for further processing or end use.
The facility has an administrative office and a maintenance building where transfer station and transport equipment is maintained and repaired, is supervised by a general manager and an operations manager and manned by an experienced work force, the
company said.
“In today’s highly regulated waste industry, we understand how difficult it is to earn a DEP solid waste facility permit, and we are extremely pleased to have done so for the GVR Transfer Station,” Pat Mascaro, president, J.P. Mascaro & Sons, said in the release. “Being able to transfer
waste at GVR enables Mascaro to provide the highest level of waste services to our area customers in the residential, municipal, governmental, commercial and industrial sectors.”
“As a solid waste facility permittee, Mascaro is very mindful of its obligation to the environment,” Matthew Mascaro, director of envi
ronmental compliance, said in the release. “In fact, our company’s highest priority goal is 100% environmental compliance, not only at the GVR Transfer Station, but also at our other DEP-permitted transfer stations, landfills and compost facilities.”
In addition to the Great Valley Recycle Transfer Station, Mascaro-related entities own and operate eight other DEP-permitted solid waste facilities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including the Pioneer Crossing Landfill in Exeter, Berks County.