Waste district OKs recycling plan

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

BOLIVAR - The delay in agreeing to a waste disposal and recycling plan took nearly as many years as the number of words in the local waste district’s name.

The Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District board voted Thursday to authorize the board’s chairman to approve the 258-page plan — more than seven years after the deadline.

“This issue should have been put behind us long ago,” said Tuscarawas County Commissioner Kerry Metzger, who joined the board in 2003. “It’s time to move on.”...Read more.