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Parties more cautious about privatizing services

Source: Jim Johnson, Waste News, May 2006

The movement of solid waste management from municipal to private hands continues to occur, but not nearly at the pace it once did. Privatization -- when a local government essentially decides to get out of the trash business to one degree or another -- is taking place at a pace that´s held steady in recent years, said John Skinner, executive director and CEO the Solid Waste Association of North America.