Dive Brief:

• Sanitation vehicles in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area are now being forced to make extra trips to landfills in order to comply with weigh limits.
• After inspections performed by the State police and the Department of Environmental Protection discovered trucks that exceeded weight limits, a crackdown ensued.
• ​Now city officials are having all vehicles carrying trash deliver the waste to the landfill halfway through the routes instead of completing the regular collections to avoid receiving a citation.

Dive Insight:

The Teamsters official, Joseph Rossi, spoke out against the plan, suggesting the many trips waste fuel and will punish crews that finish their routes ahead of schedule.