Between the Ontario County Landfill in Stanley, New York and the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Seneca Falls, 9,000 tons of garbage are trucked into the northern Finger Lakes every day. It comes from New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York City, over 50 New York Counties and Canada. Our beautiful region has become the garbage capital of New York State. 

     As if this situation were not bad enough already, with hundreds of 18-wheelers hauling trash through our towns and villages, and the smell of the Ontario County Landfill wafting downwind to the western shore of Seneca Lake, the Ontario County Board of Supervisors is now moving forward with a plan to build a waste-to-liquid-fuel gasification pilot plant at the Ontario County Landfill. If built, it would be the first commercial facility of its kind in the United States here in the Finger Lakes. The County, as Lead Agency in  Read more...