State files charges against landfill

COLUMBUS — Attorney General Marc Dann, on behalf of the Ohio EPA and the state, filed contempt charges Thursday against Warren Recycling Inc. and Warren Hills LLC in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The attorney general alleges the company has violated the court’s November 2005 judgment entry requiring the company to pay $325,000 to the state, and other requirements imposed by Judge John M. Stuard.

Dann charges that Warren Recycling and Warren Hills LLC have failed to properly manage and control leachate, failed to submit an approvable closure plan, failed to submit a post-closure plan and failed to implement groundwater monitoring.

“Warren Recycling is the poster child for reckless mismanagement of a landfill,” Dann said.