Lane County’s Waste Management Division is losing millions of dollars in revenue as haulers bypass its Short Mountain Landfill outside Eugene and dump garbage at a landfill near Medford instead.
County officials are trying to slow the financial bleeding, saying the waste haulers are failing to pay a fee mandated by county ordinance when haulers collect trash in Lane County and ship it outside the county. Sanipac, a subsidiary of Texas-based Waste Connections Inc., is the biggest operator in the county that is not paying the fees.
In correspondence between the company and the county, Sanipac shows no signs of backing down…