That proposal was rejected unanimously by Lower Windsor Township supervisors in a December 2020 vote.
SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): York County is running out of places to put its trash. More than half currently ends up at Modern Landfill in Windsor and Lower Windsor Townships. The landfill, though, is on track to reach capacity by 2025. A proposal to expand the landfill would increase its capacity by 57 percent, from 42 million cubic yards to 66 million cubic yards of trash. The expansion is estimated to extend the life of the landfill 25 to 30 years.
That proposal was rejected unanimously by Lower Windsor Township supervisors in a December 2020 vote. The only other alternative within the county, reopening the former York County Sanitary Landfill in Hopewell Township, was voted down last week amid strong community opposition. “We want to be prepared. We don’t want the day to show up when they say, ‘We’re closed.’. That’s what we’re doing here, to make sure we have a place for the county’s waste,” said Jen Cristofoletti, community services outreach coordinator with York County Solid Waste Authority.
The next option would be shipping waste out of the state, likely into Maryland. York County Solid Waste Authority significantly reduces the volume of trash it needs to ship to landfills by first burning household waste for energy, then taking out recyclable materials. Even so, it sent out 190,000 tons of ash waste last year.
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