Lane County is continuing its push to convince trash hauler Sanipac to drop solid waste it collects at the county’s Short Mountain Landfill instead of the hauler’s privately owned landfill near Medford.
In Creswell, however, councilors have voted to exit from an intergovernmental agreement between Lane County and the city that would otherwise require the company, Sanipac, to pay system benefit fees to the county’s solid waste disposal fund. Texas-based Waste Connections owns Sanipac, a regional hauler.
The Creswell council’s Monday, April 13, unanimous vote comes as the county is trying to increase the overall waste dropped off at Short Mountain Landfill to drive up revenues, stay competitive and potentially collect enough waste required for CleanLane, a planned recycling facility, to operate as intended…