Dive summary:
- Six landfill workers in Billings, Mo., have been put on suspension after taking brand new, high-end electronics, sporting goods and guns that were intended to be sent to the landfill.
- Waste authorities came into ownership of the products after a UPS train derailed; any goods whose ownership could not be determined were to be taken to the landfill to be destroyed.
- Officials do not know what exactly was taken so it is impossible to determine the volume or value of the products or even if they are all returned.
From the article:
Five city workers have been suspended for five days without pay for scavenging goods from the landfill last summer, City Administrator Tina Volek said Tuesday.
A sixth employee of the city's Solid Waste Division was suspended for eight hours without pay for accepting a scavenged item from another worker.
Volek said she decided on the discipline last week but delayed announcing it until all the employees had been notified. Some of the workers have already begun their suspensions, she said, and human resources manager Karla Stanton said all the suspensions should be served within two weeks. ...
