Article: Sewerage district won't build new waste facility Private firm will continue to collect household hazardous materials

Household hazardous waste, such as old gasoline, pesticides and solvents, will continue to be collected under a private contract because it would cost too much for the sewerage district to build its own facility, municipal officials were told Monday.

The cost of building and operating its own facility would require spending about $300,000 a year more than the $711,000 projected cost of the hazardous waste disposal contract in 1998, said Anne Spray Kinney, executive director of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.

Kinney told members of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council that building a hazardous waste facility also would leave the sewerage district at risk for the ...

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