Unlucky for Kentucky: AWD hopes to move more East Coast trash by rail

Automated Waste Disposal in Danbury has applied to expand a building at the transfer station to handle more trash.

By Mark Langlois
The News-Times
2006-01-19

DANBURY, Conn. — More trash, fewer trucks.

That's the argument Automated Waste Disposal is making as it tries to win permission to handle more waste at its White Street transfer station.

When plans were first announced last year, some neighbors of the AWD transfer station worried that more trash would mean more big trucks on local roads.

But as the city Zoning Board of Appeals reviews AWD's application to expand a building at the transfer station, the trash company says its plan should reduce truck traffic because more garbage will be shipped out by railroad. . . Read more