Apex landfill takes what East Coast won't - "cradle to grave"

Steubenville Herald-Star
Monday, January 9, 2006

AMSTERDAM - The Apex Landfill has been open for business since Nov. 28, completing a saga that dates back more than a decade and involved different companies and different residents who opposed the landfill.

Now, a state-of-the-art facility that included development and expansion of a rail line is ramping up toward full-scale operations.

The landfill, situated on a 1,285-acre site, initially was being developed by a group of local businessmen, but wound up in the ownership of Liberty Waste Services LLC of Pittsburgh. Liberty serves East Coast customers by providing rail containers, transfer and transport to the Ohio landfills, where it also provides for transfer from the rails and disposal in the landfills. . . . Read more