The trash you toss next year probably will stay in Franklin County under a deal that will help erase a projected $2 million deficit at the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio.

SWACO struck deals yesterday with Waste Management and two other private haulers to limit the amount of garbage trucked to landfills outside the county.

The result will help keep SWACO's 2010 operating fund in the black by retaining profits from burying local garbage in central Ohio. The authority said in July that it would need to capture at least 60,000 of the 350,000 tons that haulers have been taking out of central Ohio each year.

Under the new deals, no more than 45,000 tons of waste will be sent out of the county in 2010 by Republic Waste or Rumpke Waste. And Waste Management won't export any. The Waste Management deal is the big one because the company will dump all 170,000 tons it collects in central Ohio back to SWACO. That company had been exporting about 100,000 tons a year.

Agreements with Republic and Rumpke, both of which agreed to send 75 percent of their collections to the SWACO landfill near Grove City, will have little practical effect because they already meet that standard. The additional garbage from Waste Management will provide SWACO with nearly $1.7 million more in income in 2010.

Waste Management will get $270,000 of that back because the hauler agreed to bring back all its trash. The authority originally requested 75 percent.

SWACO's return of the $270,000 gives it the first option to buy Waste Management's trash-transfer station in Canal Winchester should the company sell it.

Canal Winchester feared that SWACO's move to reclaim all trash would force Waste Management to close the transfer station, a deal that provides about $800,000 a year in income taxes, collection discounts for residents, and host fees.

Kathy Trent, senior government affairs manager of Waste Management, said officials will keep working with Canal Winchester: "We're a part of that community, and we enjoy being a part of that community."

Chris Strayer, development director for Canal Winchester, said he'll spend today calculating how the new deal will affect residents.

State Rep. Marian Harris, D-Columbus, who attended the meeting, calculated that SWACO will clear about $1.5 million from its deal with Waste Management.

"They ought to be able to find some money for Canal Winchester," Harris said.

bcarmen@dispatch.com