Modern Landfills

Technology underpins modern landfills, making them safer. Our environmental stewardship is helping keep communities clean and maintain public health.

Despite America’s efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, more than half of the garbage that Americans produce ends up in landfills.

• New state-of-the-art landfills are designed, sited, engineered, operated, regulated, tested and monitored in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
• Protective landfill liners, gas and leachate collection controls, daily cover of the working face of the landfill and final cover and monitoring upon landfill closure allow for safe disposal of garbage.
• Permitting a modern landfill generally takes between 5 to 7 years, costs millions of dollars and requires rigorous siting, engineering and environmental studies and demonstrations to ensure both state and local environmental and safety concerns are satisfied.

Are you surprised that there’s so much technology involved? We are a science-based industry that employs civil and environmental engineers, chemists, soil experts, biologists, geologists and hydrologists to protect today’s environment while developing the sustainable waste management practices of the future.

Want to learn more about what happens to waste after it is picked up from your home? Learn more here.

Want to learn more about the employees of America’s solid waste industry? Learn more here.