November 27, 2009
SWEET HOME, Ore. -- Weyerhaeuser says they are volunteering to clean up two massive illegal industrial garbage dumps in Sweet Home.
The wood products company generates the waste at their Albany and Springfield cardboard plants. They say they paid a Eugene businessman to transport it to licensed landfills, but the Department of Environmntal Quality says the businessman instead dumped the garbage on properties in Sweet Home.
The sites contain so much garbage that the cleanup will take about four months, even with garbage trucks hauling 30 loads a day to a Corvallis landfill.
