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By Bob Downing
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 10:40 p.m. EST, Jan 12, 2009
Nine Ohio solid-waste districts covering 16 counties are approved to continue using landfills in Stark, Wayne and Tuscarawas counties.
That includes the Summit-Akron Solid Waste Management Authority, as well assolid-waste districts in Portage and Cuyahoga counties.
The Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District has adopted a new and controversial rule, effective June 1, that would block counties that recycle less garbage than the three counties from using its landfills.
The other counties on the final approved list released last week are Ashland, Butler, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Greene, Holmes, Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble and Washington.
The Carroll-Columbiana-Harrison Solid Waste Management District will be approved when it pays the required $100 fee, said David Held, executive director of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne district.
The Delaware-Knox-Morrow-Madison Solid Waste Management District, is the only district that finds itself in noncompliance with the new rule.
District officials reported that there are existing contracts to use the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne landfills, but the district never applied to Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne and never paid the $100 fee, Held said.
Trash from that district will be banned on June 1 from going into his district's two landfills in Stark County and one in Tuscarawas County, unless that district complies, he said.
The rule covers the American Landfill in Stark's Sandy Township, Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Stark's Pike Township and Kimble Landfill near Dover in Tuscarawas.
Locally, Medina County does not ship any waste to landfills in Stark, Tuscarawas or Wayne counties.
Held's district had adopted the rule because Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne counties were tired of being the dumping ground for 13 percent of Ohio's garbage.
Counties had to provide 2005, 2006 and 2007 data that are also submitted to the Ohio EPA on the percentage of residential-commercial trash and the percentage of industrial waste that are recycled. The two recycling rates, averaged over the three years, must meet or beat Stark-Tuscarawas- Wayne averages.
Or alternatively, the counties had to provide greater access to recycling than the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne district.
The new rule, adopted in late 2006, was challenged by the National Solid Wastes Management Association, a trade group based in Washington, D.C.
Stark Common Pleas Judge Richard D. Reinbold Jr. ruled that the provision is valid. That ruling has been appealed to the Ohio 5th District Court of Appeals. A decision is expected soon.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
Nine Ohio solid-waste districts covering 16 counties are approved to continue using landfills in Stark, Wayne and Tuscarawas counties.
That includes the Summit-Akron Solid Waste Management Authority, as well assolid-waste districts in Portage and Cuyahoga counties.
The Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District has adopted a new and controversial rule, effective June 1, that would block counties that recycle less garbage than the three counties from using its landfills.
The other counties on the final approved list released last week are Ashland, Butler, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Greene, Holmes, Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble and Washington.
The Carroll-Columbiana-Harrison Solid Waste Management District will be approved when it pays the required $100 fee, said David Held, executive director of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne district.
The Delaware-Knox-Morrow-Madison Solid Waste Management District, is the only district that finds itself in noncompliance with the new rule.
District officials reported that there are existing contracts to use the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne landfills, but the district never applied to Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne and never paid the $100 fee, Held said.
Trash from that district will be banned on June 1 from going into his district's two landfills in Stark County and one in Tuscarawas County, unless that district complies, he said.
The rule covers the American Landfill in Stark's Sandy Township, Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Stark's Pike Township and Kimble Landfill near Dover in Tuscarawas.
Locally, Medina County does not ship any waste to landfills in Stark, Tuscarawas or Wayne counties.
Held's district had adopted the rule because Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne counties were tired of being the dumping ground for 13 percent of Ohio's garbage.
Counties had to provide 2005, 2006 and 2007 data that are also submitted to the Ohio EPA on the percentage of residential-commercial trash and the percentage of industrial waste that are recycled. The two recycling rates, averaged over the three years, must meet or beat Stark-Tuscarawas- Wayne averages.
Or alternatively, the counties had to provide greater access to recycling than the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne district.
The new rule, adopted in late 2006, was challenged by the National Solid Wastes Management Association, a trade group based in Washington, D.C.
Stark Common Pleas Judge Richard D. Reinbold Jr. ruled that the provision is valid. That ruling has been appealed to the Ohio 5th District Court of Appeals. A decision is expected soon.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
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