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  2. List of Superfund sites in Florida - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Florida 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]

  3. List of landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Orange County eyes new recycling plant, with Orlando as ... - AOL

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    Even though the economics of recycling are increasingly shaky, Orange County expects to move forward next year with its plans for a new recycling plant, capable of processing 100,000 tons of ...

  5. Hazardous waste - Wikipedia

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    "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

  6. List of environmental lawsuits - Wikipedia

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    Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Oregon: Cleanliness: interstate disposal of waste: Supreme Court of the United States: 1994 Overseas Hibakusha Case: Electromagnetic radiation at natural levels: health-care benefits for hibakusha: Supreme Court of Japan: 1957, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1995, 2003, 2005 Palazzolo v ...

  7. Toxic waste - Wikipedia

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    Disposal is the placement of waste into or on the land. Disposal facilities are usually designed to permanently contain waste and prevent the release of harmful pollutants to the environment. [citation needed] The most common hazardous waste disposal practice is placement in a land disposal unit such as a landfill, surface impoundment, waste ...

  8. Olinda Landfill - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Environment of Florida - Wikipedia

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    The recycling rate in Florida is estimated at 28% in 2000. [47] The county with the highest recycling rate is Lee County, with a 43% recycling rate as of 2008. [48] Florida's Energy, Climate Change, and Economic Security Act of 2008 set a goal of progressively improving recycling to reach a 75 percent rate by the year 2020.

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