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  2. Landfill - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Chiquita Canyon Landfill - Wikipedia

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    The Chiquita Canyon Landfill is a 639-acre landfill (259 ha) in Castaic, California, United States. Located in the Santa Clarita Valley in northwestern Los Angeles County along State Route 126, it is owned and operated by Waste Connections. Since 1972, the solid waste landfill has disposed of residential and commercial waste by compacting ...

  4. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. America’s landfills are ‘garbage lasagnas’—fetid layers of ...

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    America’s landfills—and the environmental havoc they create—are sizable. There are roughly 1,200 landfills currently in operation, and on average, each one takes up about 600 acres of land ...

  6. 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.

  7. Ghazipur landfill - Wikipedia

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    The Ghazipur landfill is a landfill waste dumping site established in 1984. It is located in Ghazipur, a village in the eastern district of Delhi, India. [1] The landfill covers an area of approximately 70 acres (28 ha) and reaches heights of over 236 feet (72 m). [2] Ghazipur has become one of the largest landfills in Delhi.

  8. Rumpke Sanitary Landfill - Wikipedia

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    The landfill receives 2 million tons (2 × 10 6 kg) of household and industrial wastes annually. [2] Mount Rumpke is 1,075 feet (328 m) above sea level and the highest landform in Hamilton County, Ohio, clearly visible from U.S. Route 27. [1] [3] It is the largest landfill in the state of Ohio [3] and the sixth largest in the United States. [4]

  9. Mountains of holiday food and packing waste are clogging ...

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    A huge mountain of trash is piled up inside the cavernous Athens material recovery facility in Sun Valley on Dec. 28. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)