Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Charging trash haulers higher fees for dumping waste in Virginia landfills could improve state and local recycling programs, according to a General Assembly study.

The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission report says a state surcharge of both in-state and out-of-state trash of 25 cents to $1 per ton could generate $3.9 million to $15.8 million a year – perhaps to help fund cash-deprived state recycling programs. Virginia currently doesn’t impose a surcharge above the so-called tipping fee on truckloads of garbage that’s unloaded in landfills.

Virginia is the second-largest state importer of trash behind Pennsylvania. That state and four other states typically impose about $1.25 per ton on trash haulers.

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