Development of a recycling center stopped. It faces the potential of having to subsidize its landfill with tax revenues. Three of the counties have now abandoned the authority, leaving the stranded debt to be paid by a population of 40,000 people. Since the Carbone decision in mid-1994, the Waste System Authority of Eastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania has been forced to shift the cost of waste disposal from the commercial ratepayers to residential taxpayers to cover the costs of the bond payments. To raise enough money to meet debt service payments on the plant, the counties plan to raise taxes, however such an increase will violate state tax caps and subject the counties to a legal challenge from the local taxpayers association .
Property owners face a special assessment over the longer-term .
Eau Claire County, Wisconsin has lost 80 percent of the tonnage at their solid waste facility that was used to guarantee the bonds to finance the facility. The town was forced to lay off 70 employees. Babylon created a commercial garbage district to offset losses, and was sued by haulers. As a result, the County has ceased providing incentives to private haulers for recycling. A radical drop in the usage of the county-operated landfills, and resulting funding shortage, forced Prince George's County, Maryland to impose new fees for recycling on county taxpayers.