Officials in New Jersey’s Burlington County have announced they want to raise the fee for dumping construction and demolition debris at the county landfill, according to a report in the Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, N.J.).
County freeholders authorized a request on Jan. 12 to the state Department of Environmental Protection to increase the disposal fee from $55 to $80 per ton, according to the report.
Mary Pat Robbie, director of the county Department of Resource Conservation, tells the Courier-Post that the goal of the increase is to slow the influx of C&D material that has been coming into the Burlington County landfill since 2003, when the state legislature exempted private landfill rates from regulation.
Robbie says private C&D haulers have been using the county landfill because it’s less expensive than other landfills in southern and central New Jersey.
The Courier-Post reports that the landfill received 12,000 additional tons of construction debris in 2003 and even more in 2004.