scraps and papers. In 2018, Americans generated about 265.3 million tonnes of waste. In the United States, landfills are regulated by the Environmental Protection...

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...

landfills. As of 2010, $1.36 million remained in the fund and the city expected to be responsible for both landfills until 2034. The cost of landfill...

The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres (890 ha) in the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. The name comes from...

stabilized, landfills may undergo severe shaking or soil liquefaction of the ground during an earthquake. Once full, the area over a landfill site may be...

largest landfills in the United States, is located at Roosevelt. The community was named after President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt is in southeastern...

The landfill could likely reach a height of 165 feet (50 m), which would make it not only one of the largest landfills in the state, but also the highest...

as the landfill has not fully processed the stewing wastes. Mining of bioreactor landfills and properly stabilized modern sanitary landfills provides...

Landfills in the United Kingdom were historically the most commonly used option for waste disposal. Up until the 1980s, policies of successive governments...

of MSW landfills. Subtitle D now requires controls on the migration of methane in landfill gas. Monitoring requirements must be met at landfills during...

operates the landfill. Arrolime, Nevada is located about 2 miles northeast of Apex. Alves, Bruna (17 April 2023). "Size of some of the largest landfills globally...

Single-liner systems are generally used in landfills which hold rubble waste from construction. Landfills with single-liner systems are not designed...

Landfills are the primary method of waste disposal in many parts of the world, including United States and Canada. Bioreactor landfills are expected to...

Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crime in the United States. In 2021, over five million people were under...

currently in the United States there are 3000 landfills. A measure of the success of landfill diversion would be if that number remains the same or is...

Sanitary Landfill, more colloquially known as Mount Rumpke or Rumpke Mountain, is one of the largest landfills in the United States located in Colerain...

West Lake Landfill is a closed, unlined mixed-waste landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. It was featured in the 2015 documentaries The First Secret...

a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a 0.28 km2 (0.11 sq mi) landfill that became the site of an environmental...

electricity generation in the United States in 2022. Since 2019, wind power has been the largest producer of renewable electricity in the country. Wind power...

operating dump in the United States", accepting waste from 1938 to 1991.: 50  It is also one of the oldest landfills in New York City, and was the second-to-last...

into landfills that means that most landfills have a large amount of lead in them, which is dangerous to the local environment. This is because the lead...

operated by the Harford County Government where a separate sanitary landfill is in use. An assessment of the landfills was carried out and confirmed the concerns...

those over 64. Emelle is home to the largest hazardous waste landfill in the United States, called the “Cadillac of Landfills”, owned by Chemical Waste Management...

average, closed landfills have gas collection systems that capture about 84% of produced gas, compared to about 67% for open landfills. Landfill gas can also...

The Ringwood Mines landfill site is a 500 acres (200 ha) former iron mining site located in the borough of Ringwood, New Jersey. From 1967 to 1980, the...

Penal labor in the United States is the practice of using incarcerated individuals to perform various types of work, either for government-run or private...

The Newby Island Landfill (NISL) is one of the largest active landfills on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. It is located in Santa Clara County, California...

Shpack Landfill is a hazardous waste site in Norton, Massachusetts. After assessment by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) it was...

Climate change has led to the United States warming by 2.6 °F (1.4 °C) since 1970. The climate of the United States is shifting in ways that are widespread...

close the landfill by 2002. Under strong community pressure and with support of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the landfill site...