Waste Connections is close to winning approval for a landfill in Harper County that would take much of the city of Wichita's waste, a development that could pose problems for Sedgwick County-which had also planned on taking Wichita's waste-in developing its own landfill. Waste Connections controls more than 60 percent of Wichita's waste, while Waste Management controls another 15 percent. That would leave only 25 percent of local waste for the proposed county-owned landfill, which may not be enough to make it economically viable without opening doors to outside waste.
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