Dive summary:

• Carbon County, Penn., has voted to close down its solid waste department, which will eliminate curbside recycling for 14 different municipalities.
• The county hopes to be completely out of the waste sector by the end of the month.
• County officials say the decision was an economic one as last year alone the county spent over $100,000 on the recycling program.

From the article:

"I'm not surprised based on a former council member who ... passed along to council that it didn't look good for it to continue," Beaver Meadows Council President Anthony Rusnock said. "We are looking at a number of options to see if we can continue recycling in the borough."

Weatherly Borough did vote to pay the bill Carbon County was asking to continue the program, about $10,000, but that will not happen now. In fact, Nothstein thanked all the municipalities that did express a desire to work with the county to try to make recycling work. ...