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Residents fear landfill will trash property values (access required)

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 [...]


Per-capita landfill load drops but some not satisfied (access required)

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 [...]