Waste Management Looks To Expand Operations In South Carolina

Date: September 10, 2003

Source: News Room

Every year, Waste Management's Palmetto Landfill in Spartanburg County, S.C. takes in a million tons of garbage from a 75-mile radius. Waste Management officials say they need more space to take in waste, as the Palmetto Landfill has 5 to 6 years left at its current location. Waste Management is looking to build a new 1,000-acre landfill in Spartanburg County. It is willing to work a deal with Spartanburg County, although the county's Wellford Landfill still has 30 to 50 years of space left in it. The county now has three options: paying Allied Waste $3 million a year to haul the waste to Anderson County; pay Republic the same amount to haul the waste to Union; or receive $4 million from Waste Management during construction, then another $2.75 million a year in impact fees for a new Spartanburg landfill. Waste Management officials have said they will not specify a location for the landfill until the Spartanburg County Council gives an initial approval for a landfill to be built.
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