Thanks Ellis County

The "hill" is growing, and you're contributing!


Rolling Meadows Recycling accepted about 320,000 tons of trash in 2007. Jason Chan, Rolling Meadows district manager, projects another 340,000 tons will enter the facility in 2008. But a significant portion of that travels from outside Shawnee County.

dont you just LOVE us!!!

I'm not complaining. It's in Shawnee County, I'm just over the "line" in Jackson County. It's ever changing scenery when I go to town... the mound has gotten huge in the last few years.

I dont get why we ship our trash over there, I mean we have a landfill dont we?

I think it works out great. They want the lions share of our tax dollars to benefit them as best possible, so in a way, this is poetic justice.........

jessks75 wrote:

I dont get why we ship our trash over there, I mean we have a landfill dont we?

We have enough toxic crap in the ground here already.

jessks75 wrote:

I dont get why we ship our trash over there, I mean we have a landfill dont we?

We have a transfer station. Our transfer station has areas for construction debris, tires, metals (to be recycled), household hazardous materials, trees and brush, e-waste, and a big building to dump the rest into trucks to ship out.

The county is looking at reopening the landfill because of gas prices. They initially closed it because of the toxins they put in the water. I wonder if they are still cleaning that up?