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July 28 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined 16 waste haulers in Clinton County for violations of operational and safety laws in the state, the DEP said.
The fines were issued after a July 22 inspection at the Wayne Township Landfill.
"We made this inspection a priority to help improve compliance with DEPīs environmental regulations and state traffic safety laws," said DEP North-central Waste Management Program Manager James Miller. "We have conducted thousands of trash truck inspections over the past two decades because we want to get unsafe trash trucks off the highways."
DEP staff discovered 20 violations on 16 trucks: eight violations for transporting residual waste with no preparedness, prevention and contingency plan; five violations for a leaking load; two violations for holes in the tarp; two violations for transporting residual waste without proper safety equipment; one violation for not having proper signs; one violation for waste not properly enclosed; and one violation for a discharged fire extinguisher.
All of the violations were against the haulers, not the landfill, DEP said.
For more information, call 570-327-3659 or visit www.depweb.state.pa.us.
Contact Waste & Recycling News reporter Amanda Smith-Teutsch at 330-865-6166 or asmith-teutsch@crain.com
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