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A 2019 report estimated that New Hampshire’s landfill capacity could have a shortfall of 120,000 tons in disposal capacity by 2025, which has state officials considering plans to expand landfill ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in New Hampshire 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 ...
Sites include landfills, mines, manufacturing facilities, processing plants where toxic waste has either been improperly managed or dumped. They were designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.
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.
NH will allow Turnkey to move forward with its plan to accept an additional 1.4 million to 1.55 million tons of waste, some of it from out of state. NH approves 60-acre expansion of Turnkey ...
In Rochester, a landfill run by Waste Management of New Hampshire had at least 13 leachate discharges between the end of December 2022 and late April of this year, according to a May letter from ...
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.
Other states dump trash in New Hampshire at a rate of around 900,000 tons per year, largely because those neighbors have stricter landfill rules. Critics: Waste industry has outsized role in ...