TOWN LANDFILL GETS VILLAGE TRASH.(Local)

Byline: Robert Gardinier Staff writer

The village of Colonie has started to take half of its trash to the Colonie town landfill and may soon stop taking any of it to ANSWERS in Albany.

After the village exhausted its $70,000 garbage disposal budget, it began taking half of its trash to the town landfill about two or three weeks ago, Mayor Herbert Kuhn said Tuesday.

The village can dump trash for free at the landfill because it is part of the town, but pays $20 a ton to dump at the Rapp Road ANSWERS facility run by the city of Albany, and that may increase to about $27 a ton soon, said Kuhn.

Kuhn said he has increased the garbage disposal …