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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BOLIVAR, OH — Recommendations are being solicited for what to do with $3 million in the Countywide Community Benefit Fund, and not everyone is happy about the proposal.

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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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A state appeals court must decide whether the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District can restrict garbage shipments from other Ohio counties.

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AMSTERDAM – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Thursday issued final solid waste and air permits to Apex Environmental that will allow the landfill to expand operations.
The state agency announced the final approval of the permit requests following months of often contentious public hearings and legal action filed earlier this year by the Tri-County Concerned Citizens [...]

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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 addition of a trash-hauling company in Northeast Ohio is having a big financial effect on the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District.

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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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