By Scott Baughman
Published: May 10,2011
Peggy Beck has seen this all before. To Beck, a property owner who lives about a half-mile from the Foxhole landfill on U.S. Route 521, the brouhaha over the possible expansion of the dump gives her déjà vu; she was there when the facility was first proposed in the 1980s. Now, she and other property [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: February 15,2011
It’s a question of conflicts of interest. On the one hand, some are wondering why two people employed by Calor Energy, a consultant for developers of a proposed plant that would burn Mecklenburg County’s trash, are allowed to sit on panels tasked with vetting the project. On the other hand, the county’s Waste Management Advisory [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 2,2010
The Charlotte City Council’s discussion Monday on an amendment to the city’s 10-year solid-waste plan, which will allow the county to direct all waste collected by the city to ReVenture Park, showed that there’s still a lot of lingering uncertainty about what the final project will look — and smell — like. The amendment, presented [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: October 15,2010
When populations surge, logic dictates that a community’s garbage will increase and, therefore, the amount ending up in landfills will also rise. In Mecklenburg County, where the population has grown 31.4 percent from 2000 to 2009, Bruce Gledhill, solid-waste-management director for the county, said there’s actually been a per-capita drop in the amount of county [...]
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