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This past month has included stories in Florida on several new solid waste facilities including landfill gas-to-energy, solar generation at landfills, and Palm Beach County's approval of a new waste-to-energy facility.  The links to these and other notable Florida solid waste stories are provided below.   Reports from many of our clients suggests that tonnages are increasing slowly as the economy creeps out of the Great Recession.  The Chaz Miller article at the end of the news story listing is a good read for those who are still experiencing declining landfill revenues.  In our rate and financial modeliing practice, we have been actively engaged with providing financial and infrastructure planning in light of these declining income streams, but also in light of the best construction market prices in recent memory.