Dive Brief:

• Groot Industries broke ground on a new waste transfer station first OK'd in 2013 by Lake County, IL officials. It will process an estimated up to 750 tons of municipal waste daily.
• The transfer facility will be one destination point in a site that also is expected to have a construction waste recycling facility. Groot has been the county’s waste hauler since 2010, and has had a hauling yard on the site of the planed transfer station since that time.
• The state gave permission to create a construction/demolition recycling complex on 14 acres adjacent to the 4-acre transfer station site. Work on the Lake Transfer and Recycling Facility is expected to be finished by the end of this year or early 2016.

Dive Insight:

Timber Creek Homes, a mobile home community close to the transfer station site, is still fighting creation of the transfer station. The community appealed the approval of the station to Illinois Pollution Control Board, and though the board deemed the happenings "fundamentally fair," Timber Creek is appealing the decision, now in the 2nd District Appellate Court.