Countywide: We follow the rules

By NOAH BLUNDO and ZACH LINT
The Times-Reporter

EAST SPARTA - A spokesman for Republic Services Inc., Florida-based corporate parent of Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility at East Sparta, said Thursday that the landfill’s diligence, not variation in the inspection process, is the reason Countywide has far fewer violation notices than another landfill in the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste District.

Previously, Tuscarawas County Commissioner Chris Abbuhl had said that his interest was piqued by the wide berth between the number of violations the Stark County Board of Health issued to Countywide and the number Tuscarawas County’s board issued to Kimble Landfill at Dover. Abbuhl is awaiting a response from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to a letter he sent about the possibility of having the same inspectors monitor all the landfills in the waste district....Read more.