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TX: 21st • Density: 3,000/sq mi (1,158/km 2) ... Mesquite is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Dallas County with portions extending into Kaufman County.
In November 2009, at Waste Management's Altamont Landfill, a new plant began producing 13,000 gallons a day of LNG fuel from methane gas from the landfill that had fueled an electric power plant since 1969. Waste Management has said that the plant, announced in April 2008, and built and operated by The Linde Group with state funding, is the ...
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.
BFI was founded in Houston, Texas.The company was initially known as American Refuse Systems, and it opened its first landfill in 1968. The company soon became the first waste hauler on the New York Stock Exchange, after purchasing the Browning-Ferris Machinery Company, and changing their name to Browning-Ferris Industries.
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 .
Mesquite is located on Farm to Market Road 1054, east of US Route 87 and north of US Route 180. The nearest large community is Lamesa , approximately 15 miles (24 km) to the southwest. It is also located 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Gail , 55 miles (89 km) north of Big Spring , and 7 miles (11 km) south of the Lynn County line.
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Big Town Mall, located at 800 Big Town Shopping Ctr., just off of U.S. 80 E. and Loop 12 in Mesquite, Texas, was constructed in 1959 and was the first enclosed, air-conditioned shopping mall in the Southwest. [2]