In July 2014, Michael Stine's company in Bangor had just lost its permit to dump construction waste at landfills.

As a result, he reportedly advised his drivers that if they wanted to continue working, they would have to find somewhere to dump their waste - illegally.Stine's drivers did just that, finding sites around Carbon and Schuylkill counties.Now Stine and his company are facing felony criminal mischief charges.Investigators said that Stine and his company, MS Recycling LLC, were paid more than $10,000 by a Staten Island company for hauling construction and demolition waste. That waste was supposed to end up in Pennsylvania landfills, but police say that it ended up dumped illegally around the area.The cost of cleaning up the mess that they created in Carbon and Schuylkill counties was in the range of $50,000, according to police.But that pales to the cleanup that took place at two other sites that Stine allegedly used in Bethlehem and Lackawanna counties. Police said that the Taylor site cost $450,000 to clean up, and the Bethlehem one, $850,000.The office of the Attorney General filed charges against Stine and his company, MS Recycling, on Aug. 17.Stine's drivers allegedly dumped nine truckloads of construction and demolition waste at six different sites in Carbon and Schuylkill.East Penn Township police discovered the first pile, located on township-owned property along Riverview Road, on Aug. 20, 2014. The next day, a pile was found at Snyder Tire along Route 443 in Lehighton.Over the next two weeks they discovered two additional piles on residential properties in East Penn and Franklin townships.An additional pile had been dumped in Kline Township near the intersection of Route 309 and Interstate 81.Two of the property owners admitted that they had taken $300 from MS Recycling drivers in order to accept the construction debris.In the Snyder Tire case, a driver claimed that he knew the property owner and directed one of his co-workers to dump the debris.A man identified as the driver told police that he was illegally dumping loads for MS Recycling because he had lost his commercial driver's license due to high blood pressure.He told police that he took the construction and demolition debris from a yard located on Staten Island in New York, which according to a manifest was supposed to be delivered to landfills in Bethlehem and Lancaster County.The driver admitted contacting the property owners in Carbon and Schuylkill to dump the waste.Police traveled to the business in Staten Island, New York, where the waste was originating. Their records showed assorted cash and credit payments made to MS Recycling between Aug. 18 and 20, 2014, when the alleged dumping occurred. The payments totaled about $10,000.Stine is currently free on unsecured bail.A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 5 at District Judge Casimir T. Kosciolek's office in Lansford.