Tuesday, February 14, 2006

 

Higher tipping fees will discourage expansion of landfills


Letter to the Editor
Canton Repository

I have found the way to stop the out-of-state waste problem and the problem of landfill and transfer station expansion in Stark County: Get our state legislators to raise the tipping fees for those who truck or railroad out-of-state waste into our state.

Bottom line: Call your legislators. We have to stop this, or no one will ever want to move into Ohio because we will be known as America’s Dumping ground.

Now do you think that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency would want that? Who pays the OEPA paychecks? Waste Management (American Landfill), or we, the hard-working taxpayers? They should think of that before they decide on the expansion of the American Landfill. The tipping fees will not pay all of their paychecks; we do. Wake up, Ohio EPA!

GREGORY S. WHIPKEY,
OSNABURG TOWNSHIP