Waste industry challenges local rules

BY Bob Wang
The Canton Repository

CANTON - Under rules passed last month, local landfills will have to do several things to help ensure their operations don't harm their neighbors.

They include minimizing odors, noise and dust, collecting litter, keeping garbage trucks on private routes at least 150 feet from a home, operating between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and having a written odor control plan.

But the waste industry doesn't want to be required to do all this. It considers the rules a violation of landfills' constitutional rights....Read more.