The Waste Hits The Fan: The city of Columbus is withholding sewer service from the developer of a proposed casino until casino officials allow the city to annex the site on which the facility is to be built.

The latest upshot of this contentious face-off is that the casino is looking into the costly prospect of self-hauling the human waste generated at the facility to a sewage treatment plant about 30 miles away in Marysville, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

The casino would generate a projected 120,000 gallons of human waste daily, and trucks can legally haul 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of the stuff at a time, so it would take 20 to 24 trips a day, at an annual cost of more than $300,000, to pull the plan off.

Now there´s a truck you wouldn´t want to see having a mishap on the highway.

Hawaii Med Spill Follow-Up: In the wake of last week´s medical waste debris spill on Oahu, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that Hawaii state health officials say proper disposal procedures were followed. Meanwhile, some residents are making noise about pushing the city and state to adopt more stringent rules to govern medical waste diposal.

Pete Fehrenbach is managing editor of Waste & Recycling News. Past installments of this column are collected in the Inbox archive.