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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.
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 .
Former landfills in the United States (2 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Landfills in the United States" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
Vermont fully mandated composting starting in 2020, banning food scraps from landfills. As the state built up to that ban over the past decade-plus, composting facilities and private food waste ...
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 ...
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.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Michigan 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]
States regulate HHW waste disposal in MSW landfills with various requirements, on a state-by-state basis. Some commonly regulated wastes in some (but not all) states include restrictions on the disposal of: Recyclables (especially "source-separated" recyclables or recyclables that have already been separated from solid waste). In this case this ...