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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.
However, this number is deceptive. Much of the decrease is due to consolidation of multiple landfills into a single, more efficient facility. Also technology has allowed for each acre of landfill to take 30% more waste. So during this time, the available landfill per person has increased by almost 30%. [27] [28]
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.
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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 ...
Operation Georgia was a U.S. Marine Corps security operation around the An Hoa Industrial Complex in western Quảng Nam province, lasting from 21 April to 10 May 1966.
The site for Oahu’s next municipal solid waste landfill will be announced in November, city officials say. That action, boosted in August by the state Land Use Commission’s decision to modify ...
Aug. 27—The city has identified four locations to replace the island's only municipal landfill, Waimanalo Gulch, on the West side of Oahu. The state Land Use Commission ruled in 2019 that ...