Stark dump contains less aluminum

By Bob Downing
The Akron Beacon Journal

PIKE TWP - The volume of aluminum waste that was dumped in a landfill in southern Stark County has, in a way, shrunk.

Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility, where an underground fire is smoldering, took in about 1 million tons of aluminum dross -- not 13 million tons as has been widely cited.

Republic Services, the Florida-based company that owns and operates the 258-acre landfill, has notified the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that the 13 million figure is incorrect, EPA spokesman Mike Settles said....Read more.