Dive summary:

• The U.S. District Court in South Carolina dismissed requests by Sandlands C&D LLC and its sister company Express Disposal Service LLC to overturn an ordinance that orders all waste collected in the county to be disposed of in the county landfill.
• The court decided that the law does not discriminate which private entities can process waste generated in the county, only where the waste must end up.
• This summer the House passed a bill that would have prohibited waste flow control laws in South Carolina but the bill did not make it past the Senate.

From the article:

Bessant said he was uncertain whether the legislature would take up the proposal again when it was back in session Jan. 1, but there was a good possibility they would.

Responding to the latest court decision and the possibility of legislation re-emerging, Bessant says nothing has been filed in the legislature. While he says "we can't predict the future," he hopes that the legislature will note the court decisions -- the state Supreme Court also has ruled in the county's favor, he says -- and accept that "the Horry County ordinance fulfills a legitimate public purpose and is the best interest of the citizens." ...