Dive Brief:

• County officials in Medina, OH are at a standstill with current recycling company Envision Waste Services. According to Cleveland.com, Envision has refused to provide the Medina County Sanitary Engineer with its equipment and operating cost records.
• County officials plan to accept bids for future management of the 21-year-old facility and require the records to write specifications for operations. The refusal, according to Commissioner Stephen Hambley, constitutes a "breach of contract and dysfunctional working relationship." 
• The CEO of Envision, Steve Viny has cited proprietary and trade secrets as the reason for withholding the requested information.The company questions the timing of the request, since the county will be submitting its own bid. 

Dive Insight:

All involved parties agree the next move is for Envision to bring the grievances to the Solid Waste Policy Committee for a solution to the dispute. According to Cleveland.com, Envision CEO Steve Viny says that the county has never requested these records before. 

"To provide this information to a competitor would be highly damaging to Envision and our expectation of a fair and level playing field in the rebid," Viny said.