New Trash Compactors Intentionally Damaged, Village Reports

Someone has tried to intentionally damage the new solar trash compactors, that Port Jefferson village recently installed around town, according to village officials.

Frank Cruz, a representative from DEC Green, a company that services the compactors also known as Big Bellies, said that the person who tried to destroy the locks must have used a screwdriver or some other type of tool.

“It seems that someone was trying to sabotage it by deliberately damaging the locking mechanism,” he said. “They jammed the cylinder with screw driver or a tool or some kind.”

The company received a call to replace the cylinder on the Big Belly in front of ZPita restaurant. Cruz also said that a village public works employee told him that there was damage done to another trash compactor nearby. That compactor was fixed by the village worker.

Port Jefferson Mayor Margot Garant said that this type of vandalism will not be tolerated in her village.

“If the culprit is apprehended he or she will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for the damage to public property," she said.