Mahoning County OKs settlement with waste hauler
YOUNGSTOWN – Mahoning County commissioners have approved settlement of a lawsuit the county joined against a waste hauler that allegedly mis-identified the source of waste it hauled to Mahoning County landfills.
The county’s recycling division will receive $129,381 in the settlement approved Thursday.
Late last year, Mahoning County joined a lawsuit that had earlier been filed by the Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District against Wolford’s Refuse and Recycling Inc. of McDonald.
The suit, which was filed in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, said Wolford’s inaccurately declared that the waste it was dumping in Mahoning County landfills originated in Mahoning County, when the waste actually came from Trumbull County.
By doing this, Wolford’s saved $5 per ton in dumping fees, paying $1.50 too little to Mahoning County and none of the $3.50 it owed to Geauga-Trumbull.
The Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District’s governing board has approved the settlement, in which the district will receive $387,619.
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