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2. Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio - Wikipedia

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   Yard waste compost services [16] Community outreach. Tours of the landfill [17] A recycling exhibit at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium [18] A “Recycle Right” exhibit at Center for Science and Industry (COSI) museum [19] Participation in Junior Achievement’s Biztown [20] Recycling resources and programs for schools [21] In 2018, SWACO ...

3. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Decomposing waste in these landfills produces landfill gas, which is a mixture of about half methane and half carbon dioxide. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the United States, with municipal solid waste landfills representing 95 percent of this fraction. [15] [16]

4. Landfill - Wikipedia

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   Sanitary landfill diagram. The term landfill is usually shorthand for a municipal landfill or sanitary landfill. These facilities were first introduced early in the 20th century, but gained wide use in the 1960s and 1970s, in an effort to eliminate open dumps and other "unsanitary" waste disposal practices.

5. Solid waste policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Solid Waste Tree, Based on Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid waste means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or an air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial ...

6. Removal of 35,000 toxic waste drums marks end of Pasco ... - AOL

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   A proposed cleanup plan for the Pasco Sanitary Landfill would dig up 35,000 drums of solvents, paint sludges, cleaners and other hazardous industrial waste buried in Zone A. Zone A is one of five ...

7. List of landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.