Buffalo Waste Will Be Sent To Outside Landfill

Date: July 10, 2003

Source: News Room

An out-of-state landfill has agreed to accept 400 rail cars full of waste that have sat in a Buffalo, N.Y. rail yard since February. A state Supreme Court-issued gag order has prevented the revelation of details behind the shipment. The city of Buffalo and the state attorney general's office have brought legal action against New York City-based Chem-Rail Logistics, which was hired to dispose of the New Jersey waste. The company shipped the garbage to Buffalo in the rail cars, and trucks were to haul it to a Lewiston landfill. In February, the Modern Landfill began refusing the waste because Chem-Rail had not paid its bill.

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