Garbage from out of state declines

By Amy Rinard
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

MILWAUKEE, WI - The amount of garbage from other states trucked to Wisconsin and dumped in landfills here declined last year, possibly the result of higher gas prices and increased market value for recyclables.

Other states, mostly Illinois and Minnesota, sent a total of 1.9 million tons of their trash to Wisconsin landfills last year, according to a new report compiled by the state Department of Natural Resources.

That was about 229,000 tons less than the 2.1 million tons of out-of-state waste dumped in Wisconsin in 2005, DNR reports show. The all-time high was 2.2 million tons in 2004. In 1990, Wisconsin took in 290,000 tons of waste from other states....Read more.