The Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority is converting unused landfill property into an 18-hole disc golf course.
Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority
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Schilling landfill to have new vertical wells drilled to withdraw gas
Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority approved a contract for 13 new landfill gas extraction wells and is awaiting state approval to use municipal incinerator ash as daily waste cover.
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GLRA board approves 10-year agreement for purchase of landfill methane
The Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority approved a new 10-year agreement with NextEra Energy LLC that includes a 37% price increase for landfill methane and a 50-50 revenue-sharing clause.
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Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority board approves 2026 budget
The board of the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority approved its 2026 budget recently that includes a $10 increase in the tipping fee—or what haulers pay to dispose of waste—to $82/ton.
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Refuse authority presents draft budget for 2026, revenues to increase
The Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority is projecting $10.7 million in operational revenues for 2026, an increase of more than $1.3 million driven by a tipping fee hike from $72 to $82 per ton.
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Veterans, active-duty service personnel participate in veterans hunt at GLRA
A group of veterans and active-duty servicemen took part in the fourth annual Veterans Hunt co-sponsored by Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority and the National Wild Turkey Federation, Blue Mountain Chapter earlier this month.
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Digging into the past: Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority uncovers 1970s trash
The Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority is excavating a landfill used from the 1970s to the 1990s – and uncovering relics of the past in the process.
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Tipping fee for waste disposal at refuse authority to increase in 2026
Haulers will pay more in 2026 to dispose of a ton of waste – $82 per ton up from $72 per ton – at the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority.
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Refuse authority may use Lancaster County incinerator ash to cover waste
The Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority (GLRA) has submitted a proposal to accept municipal incinerator ash from Lancaster County to cover daily loads of waste deposited in the landfill, the authority board learned last week.
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Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority’s tipping fee is lowest in the region
The tipping fees for disposal of municipal waste at the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority —now the lowest in the region—could increase in 2026.
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Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority provides nesting boxes for kestrels
Kestrels are hatching in nesting boxes located throughout the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority.
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Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority’s one-of-a-kind pond system goes with the flow
The Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority has a unique system of ponds that rely on natural and biological processes to treat the liquids produced as waste decomposes.
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Natural solution to Lebanon’s 1970s waste crisis became a success story
In the 1970s, the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority came up with a unique way to treat the liquids produced when trash decomposes–a system of lagoons and ponds planted with cattails, bulrushes and lily pads.
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High temperatures decline at refuse authority’s gas collection wells
The unusual hot temperatures noted in some of the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority’s gas-collection wells have started to cool down, the board learned Tuesday.
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Refuse authority monitoring high temperatures of gas collection wells
Routine monthly monitoring of the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority’s gas collection wells turned up abnormally high temperatures—close to 135 degrees Fahrenheit—the board learned at its February meeting.
