The slowdown has also added to competition from other disposal companies.

If a customer takes the old tires home, disposal companies often refuse them.

Europeans retained their own rules, and preferences for home-grown disposal companies.

The disposal company supplied each pharmacy (approximately 1,200) with a collection bin and covered the cost of disposal.

Today's Columns Hazardous-waste disposal companies have run into a problem: There is not enough of the stuff to go around.

The waste could then be turned over to licensed disposal companies, which would follow their normal procedures.

Such disposal companies typically take medical waste from a customer, store it briefly and then ship it to an incinerator.

The company disposes of biological wastes from organic production through a professional disposal company.

But by last year, state officials had granted permits to one transfer station and four disposal companies.

A disposal company charges $45 to cart that single bag away.