Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

Environment officials worried years about type of aluminum waste now found at Countywide

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Countywide landfill accepted hundreds of thousands of tons of aluminum waste at a time when federal and state agencies were concerned about environmental problems that waste was causing elsewhere.

The waste is called aluminum dross. Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township took in large amounts of it from a Barmet Aluminum foundry in Uhrichsville from 1993 through 2001....Read more.