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Port St. Lucie sues Waste Pro, arguing that the trash hauler has breached it contract by using labor shortage as an excuse for missed and delayed pickups

The city of Port St. Lucie is reaching out to its citizens to try and dispose of a growing trash problem.

Cloe Poisson / Connecticut Mirror When the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority announced plans to close its trash-burning plant in Hartford by July 2022, the agency said it would turn off the incinerators and transform the site into a transfer station for garbage. But conversations with the state appear to have stopped those plans, which could mean that when the plant shuts down, hundreds of thousands of tons of garbage may no longer make their way into Hartford. MIRA’s idea was...