Dive Brief:
- Indiana's Department of Environmental Management will transfer a landfill permit to the owner of a Madison County property following a dispute that has lasted decades.
- The owners of the landfill own three companies which are in landfill-related businesses, but the owners state there are no plans to open a landfill.
- The permit, which includes 13 acres of a 254 acre site, will be transferred from the previous owners to 600 Land Inc.
Dive Insight:
Residents have spent years fighting proposals to build a landfill on this site and are now worried about the property transfer.
Two brothers bought the property for $1.1 million. They own 600 Land, which owns landfills, transfer stations and permits, Bex Farms, Inc., which owns "buffer" land and investment properties, and Best Way Disposal, a waste and recycling hauler.
