{"id":298682,"date":"2026-10-02T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298682\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:04:09","slug":"bethlehem-nh-landfill-system-closing-one-year-earlier-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298682\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem, NH: Landfill system closing one year earlier than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NH landfill system closing one year earlier than expected<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790982249_784_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Casella Waste Systems announced its landfill in Bethlehem will be closing at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The announcement comes from a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Casella had previously said it expected the landfill would stop accepting waste by the end of 2027, but said it has enough access to other sites to shut down its location in Bethlehem sooner. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Earlier this year, Casella withdrew its application for a landfill in Dalton.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">People in the area have been pushing back against the proposal for years due to concerns over possible contamination and noise.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Casella had been proposing the Dalton landfill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/landfill-proposal-sparks-zoning-debate-in-dalton\/28487408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">since 2019<\/a> because it was worried about running out of room at the Bethlehem facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NH landfill system closing one year earlier than expected MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 Casella Waste Systems announced its landfill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5663,153,155,154,123231,21080,39564,5073,123233,8422,123232,5866,4220,45425,523,93408,123234,29322,78],"class_list":["post-298682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-application","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-casella","tag-concern","tag-dalton","tag-end","tag-exchange-commission","tag-landfill","tag-landfill-system","tag-location","tag-new-hampshire","tag-noise","tag-people","tag-possible-contamination","tag-securities","tag-waste","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}