Sentences with phrase «tipping fees»

Tipping fees are charges that people or businesses pay to dispose of their waste at a landfill or garbage facility. Full definition
Casella lowered what it would charge the county in its new proposal, driven by commodities market prices and lower tipping fees at the Ontario County landfill, where the recycling is gathered.
Fact 2: Ulster County has the highest tipping fees in the region ($ 103 per ton) mostly to pay the $ 8 million annually to ship our trash 250 miles to Seneca Meadows.
Cortland County lawmakers have opted not to increase tipping fees at the county - owned landfill despite
The Troy City Council rejected Mayor Patrick Madden's proposed 2018 budget in a 7 - 2 vote after refusing last week to move ahead on a $ 190 per residential unit tipping fee needed to balance the $ 73.6 million budget.
TROY — The City Council rejected Mayor Patrick Madden's proposed 2018 budget Tuesday in a 7 - 2 vote after refusing last week to move ahead on a $ 190 per residential unit tipping fee needed to balance the $ 73.6 million budget.
To meet its budget, the RRA has raised tipping fees it charges haulers — which naturally get charged back to consumers.
Flow control would bring in the last 20 percent, and the revenue gained from the per - ton tipping fees would ostensibly make up the gap.
If Hein's plan, introduced in October along with his 2013 budget proposal, is adopted, the county, through the agency, would require that all trash generated within its borders is to be unloaded at the county facility in the Town of Ulster at RRA tipping fee rates — which stand at $ 100 per ton for residential and business self - haulers, and $ 83 per ton for licensed commercial haulers.
If the problem is that it's costing more to get rid of the waste than they're taking in on tipping fees, then forcing more trash to go through UCRRA will only * increase * the deficit.
So 28 years times $ 8 million a year equals $ 224 million — $ 224 million which has been spent thus far, with nothing to show for it except the highest tipping fees ($ 103 per ton) in the region.
After all, the company — which made pool liners, laminate foam for dashboards and roof membranes — had to pay shipping and tipping fees to dump all that stuff at the landfill.
The revenues the county collects through its tipping fees for haulers and contracts with municipalities, once the debt service for what began as a $ 30 million debt and is now in the low $ 20s of millions is factored in, isn't enough to keep the RRA in the black.
The proposal, pushed by County Executive Mike Hein, would require all trash haulers, public and private, in Ulster County to take their garbage to RRA disposal site in the Town of Ulster and pay tipping fees to the agency.
Oneida / Herkimer with its own landfill has been able to lower its tipping fees from over $ 100 to $ 58 per ton, one of the reasons it's much more attractive to industry and jobs than Ulster County is.
If we had our own landfill, that tipping fee could easily be reduced to $ 50 or $ 58 a ton, thus helping attract industry and jobs to our county, something Howard Baul should be very much interested in.
His company collects tires from Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming, making most of its money by charging dealers for transporting the tires and for disposal — a per - tire assessment known as a tipping fee.
Officials say that, at the current rate, the town will save $ 250,000 to $ 275,000 in tipping fees over a year, which doesn't take into account an anticipated increase in tipping fees of 20 percent in January, 2011.»
«Sanford's 50 percent reduction in trash tonnage translates to a 50 percent savings in the tipping fees the town pays to unload trash at the Maine Energy Recovery Company (MERC) in Biddeford.
As volumes from a given source increase the tipping fees could become higher to discourage dumping and encourage diversion.
Re-opening Babkirk as a secure landfill would have led to competition in the market for secure landfills in Northeastern BC, lowering tipping fees (the price charged by landfills) by about 10 %.
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