Waste Management holds informational meeting to promote rezoning proposal rejected two years ago
A week ago, Waste Management sent a mailer to the citizens of Pen Argyl, Wind Gap and Plainfield Township, extending an invitation to an informational meeting on June 21 st to explain a request that Plainfield Township expand its solid waste zoning district by 211 acres so that Grand Central Sanitary Landfill may install a second landfill across Pen Argyl Road from the existing one. Waste Management Mailer, inviting citizens to attend meeting to explain proposal that was officially rejected two years ago Missing from Waste Management’s invitation, and related materials on its website, is the fact that this request was officially rejected almost two years ago in a 3-0-2 vote on July 8, 2020 by Plainfield Township supervisors following discussion at two lengthy in-person public meetings. No modified request has been submitted. The supervisors who voted against expansion are all senior natives of this area – they are not what some refer to as “transplants” from NY or NJ. These su