Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio cancels Columbus area recycling facility plans.
Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio cancels Columbus area recycling facility plans.
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Plans for a recycling sorting facility located Franklin County, Ohio’s landfill have been cancelled, a report from the Columbus Dispatch says.
All municipal solid waste (MSW) was delivered to the receiving facility. From there, the waste would have been directed to either COR3 or to the landfill. Plans also called for waste conversion technologies such as anaerobic digestion and plastics to oil as part of an industrial research park.
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Source: Recycling Today
Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio cancels Columbus area recycling facility plans.
<![CDATA[Plans for a recycling sorting facility located Franklin County, Ohio’s landfill have been cancelled, a report from the Columbus Dispatch says. The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO), Grove City, Ohio, has canceled a contract with Team Gemini, Orlando, Florida, which was supposed to build the facility, after the company failed to pay rent on its leased land next to the landfill, according to the Dispatch. The company was late on its rent payments the previous two years as well, the report indicates. SWACO was to have owned and operated the landfill recovery facility while Team Gemini was to own and operate its Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (COR3). All municipal solid waste (MSW) was delivered to the receiving facility. From there, the waste would have been directed to either COR3 or to the landfill. Plans also called for waste conversion technologies such as anaerobic digestion and plastics to oil as part of an industrial research park. The article says SWACO’s lawyers sent a letter to the company’s California-based lawyer, Raymond Lee, and its local project director, Matthew E. Ferris, on April 6, 2016. “The project is done. By virtue of our letter, we’ve terminated the…