Dive Summary:

• Waste Management may close its Palmetto Landfill, in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, in exchange for the approval to build a transfer station in the county.
• The closure of the landfill would eliminate any rights Waste Management has to build a replacement landfill in Spartanburg or nearby counties.
• The Palmetto Landfill has 700,000 tons of capacity remaining, and has experienced a decrease in waste intake in the past few years.

From the article:

... At the (transfer) station, up to several hundred tons of garbage per day would be compacted and shipped out of Spartanburg County for disposal. The center would be emptied every day, and no garbage would be stored at the station overnight, Peeler said. ...