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This is a list of Superfund sites in Wisconsin designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
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.
It is presumed that at the end of the 30-year period, the landfill will be stable and will no longer require intensive monitoring. [1] Today, landfills are designed from the start to ensure protection of the environment and public health, and the safe and productive use of the site after closure. [3]
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin. There are over 2,500 listed sites in Wisconsin . Each of the state's 72 counties has at least one listing on the National Register .
Unilever Achieves 100% Zero Waste to Landfill at All 26 Facilities in North America ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unilever United States and Canada today announced that all 26 of its ...
Before logging, the area that would become Hayward was a forest of pine and hardwoods cut by rivers and lakes. [9] In later years Ojibwe people dominated the area along with much of northern Wisconsin, [10] until the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, when they ceded it to the U.S. [11]
A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...
In 2008 around one billion tires were being scrapped each year with an estimated further four billion already in stockpiles and landfills. Global production in 2008 was about 1.5 billion new tires. The U.S. alone produced 291.8 million tyres in 2009 as estimated by the U.S. Rubber Manufacturers Association.