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DEP Finds 16 Trash Haulers Violating State Waste Transportation Safety Laws in Clinton County
WILLIAMSPORT -- Department of Environmental Protection staff found 20 operational and safety violations on 16 trucks during a July 22 landfill inspection at the Wayne Township Landfill in Clinton County.
“We made this inspection a priority to help improve compliance with DEP’s environmental regulations and state traffic safety laws,” said DEP North-central Waste Management Program Manager James Miller. “We have conducted thousands of trash truck inspections over the past two decades because we want to get unsafe trash trucks off the highways.”
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