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May 12, 2021 Waste Management, the owner of the Southern Services Construction & Demolition landfill in Nashville filed a law suit after an oversight board rejected its plans to expand its 77-acre landfill by an additional 17 acres.  The board concluded the expansion was "inconsistent" with the city's long-term Solid Waste Master Plan, a comprehensive roadmap that calls on the city to achieve near zero-waste to landfills by 2050.   In the lawsuit, Waste Management asked the court to overturn the solid waste board's decision, or for the court to remand their application for expansion...

Tweet Recycling sorting at River Hills Recycling CenterPhoto: Eric England A sound not unlike rain patters incessantly at the back of the open-air building where trucks dump material at Nashville’s River Hills Recycling Center. This is the largest recycling facility in Nashville, and that sound is a thunderstorm of sorts. It’s a steady stream of pill bottles, drink cans, cardboard boxes and other materials hurtling through a large machine called a drum feeder, which sends the items down a conveyor belt to be sorted. Although operations manager Dilan Vince says the drum feeder can ...

Local and Green with Darcy Dumont: 2020: Good riddance to bad rubbish An employee of Duseau Trucking, which merged with USA Hauling and Recycling, loads trash into the truck from a client at Roundhouse Plaza in Northampton in 2019. As some residents express alarm at rising trash hauling rates this month, an Amherst group continues its work exploring ways to reduce waste in town. Gazette file photo Wednesday, January 06, 2021 As the year came to a close, several Amherst residents noted with dismay — via the Nextdoor Networking Service — that their trash hauling rates had risen. Many are...