Dive summary:

• Transfer stations in Washington County, New York have been undergoing the switch from publicly-owned to being owned by Earth Waste and Metal--but not without a fair share of problems.
• Former employees of the transfer station have lost their jobs, and during the last month, five employees took revenge and didn’t charge residents for garbage pick-up on their last day of work.
• The county has been going through a number of privatization efforts, by just moving waste collection to private the city will save more than $500,000 a year.

From the article:

Hartford Supervisor Dana Haff said Tuesday that constituents have told him that employees at transfer stations were accepting trash for free April 20, the last day the five stations were under county operation.

Vermont-based Earth Waste and Metal took over operations at the transfer stations the following Monday.

County Administrator Kevin Hayes told the county Board of Supervisors Public Works Committee on Tuesday that it appears some of the five now-laid-off employees accepted an unknown amount of garbage that day for free, perhaps as retribution for losing their jobs. ...