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This is a list of landfills in the United States. A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment . Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.
Over 150 m (490 ft) of garbage has risen from the ground since the area became a designated landfill site in 1957. [25] In 1986, there were 7,683 landfills in the United States. By 2009, there were just 1,908 landfills nationwide: a 75 percent decline in disposal facilities in less than 25 years. [26] However, this number is deceptive.
In November 2009, at Waste Management's Altamont Landfill, a new plant began producing 13,000 gallons a day of LNG fuel from methane gas from the landfill that had fueled an electric power plant since 1969. Waste Management has said that the plant, announced in April 2008, and built and operated by The Linde Group with state funding, is the ...
A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...
My family-owned, local business has a plan to develop a responsible landfill in a mostly rural, undeveloped area of south Kansas City. While not top of mind for most people, landfills are a necessity.
Landfill bans make it illegal to dispose of certain items in a landfill. Most often these items include yard waste, oil, and recyclables easily collected in curbside recycling programs. States with landfill bans of recyclables include Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Michigan, [4] and North Carolina. [5] Other states focus on recycling goals.
The plant can process 3,200 cubic feet of landfill gas per minute — enough gas to heat more than 13,000 homes annually, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Gas ...
A one-megawatt photovoltaic solar panel array is located on the southwest and southeast slopes of the landfill in an area of approximately 10 acres (4.0 ha). [ 3 ] The one-megawatt solar array has over 7,000 flexible solar laminates, composed of 36 laminates bonded one at a time to 12 feet (4.0 yd) wide by 120 feet (40 yd) long panels.