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Counties could be banned from using Stark landfills
By Bob Downing
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Friday, Jun 12, 2009
Summit County is hoping that a provision blocking a controversial landfill rule is reinstated in the final state budget bill.
The language could be reinstated when the joint House-Senate conference committee gets together to work out budget-bill differences, said Yolanda Walker, executive director of the Summit-Akron Solid Waste Management Authority.
Without the language being reinstated, Summit and other counties could be banned from using landfills in Stark County that handle the bulk of trash from Summit and Cuyahoga counties.
The Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District on June 1 began enforcing its controversial rule that bars counties that recycle less garbage than Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne from using landfills in that three-county district.
State Sen. Kirk Schuring, R-Jackson Township, got the language that Summit County sought dropped from the Senate version of the state budget bill — to the delight of Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne officials.
The move to rescind the rule had been approved earlier by the Ohio House in an amendment to its state budget bill.
The Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne rule also is being challenged before the Ohio Supreme Court and before a state appeals board.
In late 2006, the three-county district adopted the rule because officials were tired of being the dumping ground for 13 percent of Ohio's garbage at two landfills in Stark County and one in Tuscarawas County.
Under the rule, counties shipping trash to those three landfills could do so only if they recycle more than Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne counties or provide more access to recycling under a complicated state formula.
Counties had to provide 2005, 2006 and 2007 recycling data 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.
Counties unable to comply would be forced to ship their waste to other landfills.
Eleven districts covering 21 Ohio counties have been approved to keep using the landfills, and no county was rejected.
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.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
Summit County is hoping that a provision blocking a controversial landfill rule is reinstated in the final state budget bill.
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Akron, OH
Posted 08:11 AM, 06/12/2009
Here's a noval idea. Each county in each state handles their own trash! Too many people, too bad - innovation!
