Right thing to do

The Canton Repository

SANDY TWP - Stark County Health Commissioner William Franks got a mess cleaned up this week. Workers at American Landfill in Sandy Township collected litter that was scattered by high winds for several hundred yards in the vicinity of Route 44 and Chapel Street SE....Read more.

Landfill picking up windblown trash

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

SANDY TWP - The Stark County Health Department has cited American Landfill for an environmental violation, after heavy winds Monday blew a large amount of plastic bags and other waste onto nearby roads and properties, a health official said.

Stark County Health Commissioner Bill Franks said one of his inspectors went to the landfill, shortly after someone called with a complaint around 8:30 p.m. Franks said the landfill violated a state regulation requiring it to keep waste from leaving the facility....Read more.

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.

Why not? A lot more people could be recycling

By JOE MIZER
The Times-Reporter

BOLIVAR - Recycle.

It’s the right thing to do.

It’s good for your community.

It’s good for your country.

So why isn’t more of it being done?

David Held, executive director of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste District, commends residents who recycle for their efforts in the district. But he estimates that less than 5 percent of the residential waste being generated actually is being recycled....Read more.