King County, Wash., officials just voted to extend the life of and expand the Cedar Hills Regional landfill. Earlier this month, county officials considered whether to expand the landfill to accommodate tons of trash from more than 1.5 million people in the county as neighbors of the landfill fought the proposed expansion.
King County leaders on April 24 voted to create a ninth cell at the landfill at a cost of roughly $270 million. According to the Bothell-Kenmore Reporter, the plan also included provisions for county staff to complete a study identifying alternate ways to deal with the county’s trash, including shipping it to other landfills, creating a waste-to-energy plant and creating technology to break down the garbage in the landfill.
