Permit to build new Greenville Co. trash facility approved, residents outraged [Video]

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A trash transfer facility will be built along Highway 124 in Greenville County.

The Department of Environmental Services (DES) approved a permit from Greater Greenville Sanitation to build the facility last week.

More than a dozen people gathered for a meeting with DES Thursday to explain why they do not support the facility being built.

“This is a low-income area,” a resident said. “We have a very unfair burden of toxins from other nearby businesses. Nothing has been done to establish baseline testing on water, soil or water.”

“I don’t think you should have ever even fielded this permit,” David Davis said.

Residents have been working to stop the facility from being built for years. They worry it will harm the environment and their loved ones.

“We are seeing an unwarranted precedent and emergence of cancer, not just cancer but other respiratory illnesses specifically,” Kimberly Rush said. “We’re seeing a lot of people …