KINGSTON – Ulster County has no more than four years to come up with a plan to dispose of its garbage and the county legislature, Tuesday night, adopted an updated Local Solid Waste Management Plan.
The county’s present disposal method will run out then and they must come up with another solution, noted Legislator Laura Petit.
“We send out, I believe, 18 tractor-trailer loads of solid waste every day from the two county-wide transfer stations, and they travel about 450 miles round trip out to Seneca Meadows (by Waterloo, New York),” she said. “Seneca Meadows will be closing between 2023 and 2025 because they are at capacity.”
That leaves the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency that limited time to come up with a solution, which could be local landfilling, incineration, or GUS – Greene, Ulster, Sullivan – a joint plan considered a few years ago.
The county would like the end result to be zero waste.
