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The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) was established by the Ohio General Assembly in 1989 as part of Ohio House Bill 592, which created Ohio’s current solid waste management planning and regulatory programs. [1] [2] SWACO is a government-run entity responsible for the safe and sanitary management of all solid waste within its ...
The Krejci Dump was a privately owned dump occupying 47 acres (19 ha) on several sites along Hines Hill Road near Boston Heights, Summit County, Ohio. After the area was converted into part of the then-Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area (now the Cuyahoga Valley National Park), the National Park Service discovered that the property, part of one of the most-heavily used parks in the ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Ohio 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]
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 ...
BKK Landfill, West Covina - Largest hazardous waste landfill in the State [2] Canal Area, San Rafael – The "East San Rafael" area (the eastern portion of the Canal Area between the Bay and San Quentin Ridge) was home to most of the garbage disposal sites in central Marin County. Chiquita Canyon Landfill, Castaic [3] Eastlake Landfill, Clearlake
In 2010, Americans recovered almost 65 million tons of MSW (excluding composting) through recycling. [1] Despite an increase in population, the total amount of solid waste disposed in landfills has decreased since 1990. And as of 2017, Americans only discarded 52% of their waste in landfills, as opposed to 89% in 1980. [6]
The north face of the mound cracked and fell forward, exposing 15 acres (6.1 ha) of buried waste. [2] A few months after the landslide, on May 23, 1996, lightning struck near the location of the landslide, [6] causing a fire that lasted for six days. [5] The crack was filled in and Rumpke paid one million dollars as a fine. [1]
A landfill [a] is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was simply left in piles or thrown into pits (known in archeology as middens).