Medical waste must be removed by a licensed medical waste hauler.

Much diesel traffic in the city is caused by commercial waste haulers, whose number may increase soon.

The company is one of the three largest waste haulers in the world, a company spokesman said.

"But the danger is you're exposing the city to a near monopoly of private waste haulers."

The company also consulted with their hazardous waste hauler to determine any potential additional costs for treatment of wastewater associated with this process.

She added that increasing environmental regulations, including recycling requirements, were making the operation of the waste haulers more open.

If the store does not provide that service, ask municipal waste haulers to take it.

I also would call other waste haulers.

You will have to do some leg work with different waste haulers and then enlist neighbors to back you for a change.

And a waste hauler now pays $330,000 a year for the plant's scrap metal, up from a giveaway price of $7,000 before.