Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has ordered a Buffalo company that takes used cooking oil for recycling to shut down operations. The owner tells WBEN the DEC keeps changing regulations.
Owner Sumit Majumdar recently celebrated his 20th anniversary, but uncorking champagne is the last thing on his mind.
“We’re not a polluter. We don’t even have a smokestack. We don’t boil anything or burn anything, and it’s whatever we’ve been doing, we’ve been doing for the last 20 years,” said Majumdar with WBEN. “What happened was we were operating by registration, and they changed the regulations for the DEC in 2017, I believe. That’s what put us under the new regulatory requirements.”…