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Written by Tribune Staff  Trucking trash to Cody seen as only
choice  The message from recent landfill planning is that unless
Park County wants to truck its waste to Casper, there are few
viable options on the table — and it's going to be expensive.
“It's essentially one alternative,” said consultant Myra Peak at
a Thursday landfill meeting.  That choice is to bring all of the
county's garbage to a lined landfill in Cody. However, building
a lined cell in Cody would mean a significant increase in costs.
Currently, the landfills of Park County charge $60 for every ton
of waste dumped. Based on numbers run by Richard Thiel, a solid
waste engineer, that cost could double, and will almost
certainly rise.  “Nothing we do is going to beat $80 a ton,”
said county landfill Manager Dave Hoffert. “At absolute worst —
if we do everything wrong — it's going to be $120.”  If those
numbers hold true, i