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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.
The Hickory Ridge Landfill is a municipal solid waste landfill located in Conley, Georgia, United States, and privately owned by Republic Services. The site was opened in 1993 and closed in 2006. It contains nearly 9,000,000 cubic yards (6,880,994 cubic meters) of waste.
The first federal legislation addressing solid waste management was the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965 (SWDA) [1] that created a national office of solid waste. By the mid-1970s, all states had some type of solid waste management regulations.
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GFL Environmental waste bin. GFL Environmental Inc. (an initialism of Green For Life) is a Canadian waste management company, with headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario.Founded in 2007, GFL operates in all provinces in Canada and much of the United States, and currently employs more than 20,000 people. [2]
The Hercules 009 Landfill Superfund site is a 16.5-acre (67,000 m 2) property that is bordered by Georgia State Route 25 (Spur 25) on the west; an automobile dealership on the north; a juvenile slash pine forest on the east; and several homes, a church, a school, and a strip shopping center to the south/southeast of the property.
"The city has been pre-approved for a loan of approximately $2.1 million from the Georgia Environmental Authority to be used towards the wastewater treatment plant project," White said. "As part ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Georgia 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]