Waste-industry spokesman explains position

BY Bob Wang
The Canton Repository

CANTON - A day after a waste industry association filed a lawsuit to invalidate new local waste district rules, the association’s spokesman said Thursday that many of the concerns those rules seek to address have already been dealt with in voluntary agreements.

David Biderman, the general counsel for the National Solid Wastes Management Association, said many of the rules are vague and interfere with interstate commerce, which can be regulated only by Congress, not local governments....Read more.