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Officials say a landfill in southern Idaho could start producing enough energy to power 2,500 homes as early as May.

Now that the Twin Falls city recycling program is several months old, city officials say it’s still a resounding success.

However you look at it, there is always a price to pay for recycling.  Twin Falls city officials are concerned that the city’s cost to dump the solid waste produced by city residents may be going up by about a dollar per ton.

The recycling effort by Twin Falls residents is working so well, it’s causing another problem.  The Southern Idaho Solid Waste landfill near Burley is getting less tonnage of garbage.  Now, that may sound like a good thing but the problem is, that landfill depends on tons of garbage for its income as cities around the area pay by the ton to dump their garbage there.  In short, the landfill isn’t m

Twin Falls city officials are happy with the results so far of the new city recycling program.  The Times News reports that officials say 100 fewer tons  of garbage were sent to the landfill in February compared with the same month last year...

Twin Falls city officials say the city recycling program implemented at the first of the year is going great so far.