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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)
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 .
In the United States, the holiday season also comes with some costs, including as much as 25% increases in waste going to landfills, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Sunshine Canyon Landfill is situated on a 1,036-acre site (419 ha) in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sylmar, just south of Newhall Pass. [1] The landfill was commissioned in 1958 and serves Los Angeles County .
The Chiquita Canyon Landfill, which has generated thousands of odor complaints over the past year and has been targeted in lawsuits, will halt its solid waste operations on Jan. 1, the operators ...
In addition, Waste Connections runs landfills for waste disposal (82 solid waste landfills as of September 2019). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In Q3 2017, 67% of revenue was from solid waste collection, 21% from solid waste disposal and transfer, 4% from recycling, 5% from its oil industry waste operations, and 3% from other sources.
Los Angeles County is suing the owner of Chiquita Canyon Landfill for failing to control a high-temperature chemical reaction that is cooking garbage and sickening nearby residents.
The booming oil production generated a large amount of hazardous oil byproducts in both liquid and solid form. The site was later used to store a variety of liquid and solid wastes, [3] because Waste Disposal Inc. (WDI) received a permit from Los Angeles County to operate an industrial waste landfill, which continued until 1964. [2]