Wednesday, April 18, 2007

 

Winds scatter landfill trash

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

SANDY TWP - Heavy wind gusts Monday blew a large amount of trash from American Landfill onto Route 44 and Chapel Street SE as well as into several residents' yards.

The landfill's general manager, Jerry Ross, said the waste was primarily composed of plastic bags along with some paper. The wind blew the material from the area of the landfill where trash is dumped directly. It got so windy, he said, that the landfill had to halt operations at 3 p.m. A portable toilet also was blown away, Ross said....Read more.