Wa$te War: Was RSWA’s own trash partner to blame?

The RSWA had “no success” fixing billing problems at the BFI/Republic transfer station—- but Van der Linde got sued. FILE PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO For over two years, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority publicly branded Peter Van der Linde a cheat and attacked the recycler with an anti-mafia statute as part of a $20 million lawsuit, based largely on the unsubstantiated testimony of a disgruntled ...