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Landfill construction triggers debate.(OPERATIONS)

Despite protest from residents and town employees, Holly Springs, N.C., will be home to a new landfill, the first in the state since 2004.

Wake County commissioners voted 5-2 on June 5 in favor of the South Wake Landfill, which will be built and managed by Raleigh-based Waste Industries USA Inc., a firm that provides waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services to commercial, industrial, and residential customers located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Supporters say the new landfill will be more profitable than business development on the site would have been: Waste Industries expects the landfill to ...

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