PLEASANT GAP, Pa. (AP) - The owner of a central Pennsylvania trash hauling company has been charged with overbilling customers by dumping their garbage in a neighboring county where landfill fees are cheaper.
The attorney general’s office says 58-year-old Ray Walker Jr. and his self-named trucking company, are supposed to dump the garbage they collect in a landfill run by the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority, which charges $70 a ton.
But WJAC-TV (https://bit.ly/1tTo59B ) reports Walker instead had his workers haul the trash to landfills in neighboring Clinton County, which charge only $30 to $40 per ton.
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The attorney general charges that Walker nonetheless charged his customers as though he were dumping the trash in the more expensive county landfill.
Walker didn’t immediately return a call to his company in Pleasant Gap. His attorney also didn’t immediately return a call.
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Information from: WJAC-TV, https://www.wjactv.com
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