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The Olinda Landfill (official name: Olinda Alpha Sanitary Landfill) [1] is a landfill situated in Orange County, California, west of the northern portion of Chino Hills State Park in Carbon Canyon [2] in Olinda neighborhood of Brea City. Facility size is approximately 565-acre (2.29 km 2) with about 420-acre (1.7 km 2) permitted for refuse ...
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (also known as CalRecycle) is a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency that oversees the state's waste management, recycling, and waste reduction programs. CalRecycle was established in 2010 to replace the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
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.
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] In the U.S., the number of landfill gas projects increased from 399 in 2005, to 594 in 2012 [17] according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Reed quoted studies that estimate 9 million to 11 million tons of plastic enter our oceans each year, and that plastic in the environment will double by 2030 and nearly triple by 2040.
Puente Hills Landfill was the largest landfill in the United States, rising 500 feet (150 meters) high and covering 700 acres (2.8 km 2). [1] Originally opened in 1957 in a back canyon in the Puente Hills, the landfill was made to meet the demands of urbanization and waste-disposal east of Los Angeles.
The Chiquita Canyon Landfill is a 639-acre landfill (259 ha) in Castaic, California, United States. Located in the Santa Clarita Valley in northwestern Los Angeles County along State Route 126 , it is owned and operated by Waste Connections .
Eastlake Landfill is a canyon fill which has been operating since 1972. [3] It covers 32 acres, [4] and is owned and operated by the Lake County Public Services department. [5] As demand for the facility surged following fire cleanup and general population growth through the mid-2010s, a plan was approved to expand the landfill in 2014. [6]