Is more train trash headed to Ohio?

Truck waste transfer site gets permit

Canton Repository

CANTON - The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is giving a local trucking company the final permits it needs to expand its solid waste transfer station.

JMW Trucking Services will be required to build paved roads and an enclosed facility where solid waste will be transferred from railcars to trucks before being driven to a landfill.

JMW now has an open-air facility at 1800 Allen Ave. SE. The new EPA permits will give the company the right to expand, allowing it to accept auto-interior materials — the spongy material stuffed inside seats known as auto fluff — and nonhazardous contaminated soil.

The facility will not take in household trash or garbage.

Neighbors had expressed concern about the expansion plans, citing the possibility of increased noise, dust, odors and traffic. . Read more