Why is Lowndes County leaving the City of
Valdosta to subsidize the county’s
failed
“exclusive franchise”?
And is ADS’ failure to recycle recyling a breach of its contract with the county?
Adam Floyd wrote on the front page of the VDT today,
Advanced Disposal appeals Deep South decision,
Requests made to Advanced Disposal Service’s corporate office and
Robert Norman, the lawyer who filed the appeal, to learn the
company’s reasoning behind the appeal were not returned by press
time.
Meanwhile, the City of Valdosta’s recycling center has denied
Advanced Disposal further access to its facilities, citing concerns
about volume.
John Whitehead III, deputy city manager for operations, said that
the center could not process the company’s deliveries fast enough,
and material was beginning to pile up. The suspension is temporary,
Whitehead said, and was done to ensure that the city could process
its recycling which increases during the holidays.
“We had been taking our recycling to the City of Valdosta, and
Monday they cut us off without any notice,” said Greg Walk,
local general manager for Advanced Disposal. “We’ve
constructed a bunker at the landfill, and the material that is being
collected in that bunker will be taken to a processing plant in
Milledgeville.”
The company had to dispose of recycled materials collected Monday
and Tuesday but continued recycling service Wednesday.
“It was the last thing we wanted to do to our recyclables, but
we responded as quickly as possible,” said Walk.
Does that mean the city of Valdosta sent the recycling to the landfill?
And is that a violation of the county’s contract with ADS?
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