Now that’s quite a haul

CANFIELD — One of the best parts of visiting a local fair is the food, and with more than 300,000 attendees walking from vendor to vendor over a six-day period, the garbage is bound to pile up.

That’s where Allied Waste and The Green Team come in.

Approximately 2,000 covered garbage cans are scattered throughout the fairgrounds, Brent Bowker, general manager of Allied Waste, said.

That’s a lot of garbage cans meant for a lot of garbage.

He said seven garbage trucks come in at midnight each night and take about two hours to haul the trash away.

“We have to move quickly because the street sweepers start right after the trucks,” he said.

Bowker said each day, between 20 and 30 tons of garbage is generated, depending on the day of the week. He said that totals more than 300,000 pounds of trash over the course of the week.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator and on vindy.com