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2. Puente Hills Landfill - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Scholl Canyon Landfill - Wikipedia

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   The Scholl Canyon Landfill is a municipal solid waste disposal facility and landfill located in the central San Rafael Hills, within eastern Glendale in Los Angeles County, southern California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 314 acres (127 ha) of land is located at 3001 Scholl Canyon Road, north of the Ventura Freeway (State Route 134) , east of the Glendale ...

4. California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

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   According to CalRecycle, organic waste takes up about a third of California's landfills [20] with food waste alone taking up about 15.5 percent. [2] The decomposition of this organic waste in landfills contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. [21]

5. Waste Connections - Wikipedia

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   In addition, Waste Connections runs landfills for waste disposal (82 solid waste landfills as of September 2019). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In Q3 2017, 67% of revenue was from solid waste collection, 21% from solid waste disposal and transfer, 4% from recycling, 5% from its oil industry waste operations, and 3% from other sources.

6. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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   CERCLIS ID Name County Reason Proposed Listed Construction completed Partially deleted Deleted CA0001576081: AMCO Chemical: Alameda: Groundwater, soil, and soil gas are contaminated with chlorinated solvents and other contaminants including vinyl chloride.

7. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The EPA has collected and reported data on the generation and disposal of waste in the United States for more than 30 years. [1] Recent estimates state that the amount of municipal waste disposed of in US landfills per year is about 265 million tonnes (261,000,000 long tons; 292,000,000 short tons) as of 2013. [24]