Club 3000 – Ohio Landfills

CANTON — A former Bolivar couple says harmful chemicals released from the Countywide landfill caused their young son’s leukemia.

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Local officials have lost another battle in their longtime effort to regulate the amounts of trash coming into the Stark County area, mainly from Cuyahoga and Summit counties.

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The residents’ group Club 3000 and the Tuscarawas County commissioners have filed appeals seeking to reverse the granting of an operating license to the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

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An appeals court Wednesday posted online its opinion that explains why it ruled that the local waste district’s rules limiting the influx of waste are invalid.

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PLAIN TWP. — Stark County health officials on Wednesday renewed the annual operating licenses of the two landfills, two construction and demolition debris facilities and the tire monofill that operate in Stark County.

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BOLIVAR — The board of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District voted Friday to proceed with an environmental lawsuit against American Landfill in Federal district court in Akron.

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BOLIVAR — Seventy-three residents and businesses have added their names to the list of hundreds who are suing the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

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When Kerry Metzger talks about how state legislators operate, he speaks from experience. He served three terms in the Ohio House in the 1990s.
So we’ll listen to what he has to say. And when it comes to the Countywide landfill in Pike Township, Stark County’s delegation to the Legislature should listen, too.

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BOLIVAR — Chris Korleski, the director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, explained Friday to county commissioners why most of a $10 million fine paid by the Countywide landfill will be spent on cleanups outside of the area.

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ZOARVILLE — Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Chris Korleski was not declaring “mission accomplished” at the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

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