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Buncombe County ends commercial hauler rebate program effective Dec. 31, 2025
Summary
The Board of Commissioners voted to terminate a commercial hauler rebate program that paid qualifying haulers roughly $4 per ton; Solid Waste Director Dane Peterson said the program paid about $500,000 per year on average and benefited fewer than 1% of commercial accounts.
Buncombe County commissioners voted Dec. 2 to terminate the county’s commercial hauler rebate program, a policy that historically paid a per-ton rebate to large haulers delivering to county facilities.
Dane Peterson, the county’s Solid Waste director, told commissioners the program began in 2015 and has paid out roughly $500,000 annually on average (about $1.5 million over a recent three-year window).…
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