Dive Brief:

• Cortland and Onondaga Counties in New York, are moving forward towards solidifying a waste partnership that will benefit both counties.
• The Cortland County landfill is losing between $300,000 and $500,000 every year due to declining volumes of trash while still paying for an expansion; Onondaga County has an incinerator that Cortland would like to use for its trash, while providing space to dispose of the ash at its landfill.
• Legislators have approved a $250,000 budget to create an environmental study; the study would take a year to complete, making May 2015 the earliest possible timeframe for the plan to start.

Dive Insight:

Cortland County Legislature Chair Mike Park indicated this type of partnership may be something we will see more of over the next few years. "I like the idea of partnering with other municipalities and I think that's going to be the wave of the future," he said.