To help offset the budget shortfall, and for a host of other reasons, the landfill tipping fee is set to rise from $5.90 per ton to $13.00 per ton. Yikes!

Critics say the out of state haulers will look elsewhere for landfills, and that the plan won’t work to generate extra revenue for the state.

The risk to trash generators is that since this is a state tax, you’ll have to eat the cost increase should the State legislature pass the bill.