- Industry: Environment
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Waste Management, Inc. provides integrated waste management services in North America. The company offers collection, transfer, recycling, disposal, and waste-to-energy services. Its recycling operations include collection and materials processing, plastics materials recycling, and commodities ...
A gatehouse is found at a landfill or a transfer station. All incoming vehicles must stop to be processed and weighed, and all outgoing vehicles must stop to be weighed and receive a disposal ticket for charges. See also Scale House.
Industry:Environment
A landfill that has been permitted by a state regulatory agency to accept municipal solid waste. This type of landfilling must have properties and design features specific to this type of landfill that have been established by the state regulatory agency.
Industry:Environment
A landfill that has been permitted by a state regulatory agency to accept construction and demolition waste. This type of landfill must have properties and design features specific to this type of landfilling that have been established by the state regulatory agency.
Industry:Environment
Parcels of land that are designated and permitted to perform landfilling activities. This would include the entrance, staging area, buffer area and the area that will accept waste for disposal (the waste footprint area).
Industry:Environment
A gas byproduct generated through natural decomposition of solid waste in landfills. This gas is monitored to maintain state regulatory agency levels. Accumulated gas is either burned off using a flare or is converted to energy by use of a gas plant.
Industry:Environment
Specific types of waste found in customer's disposal (trash, cardboard, aluminum, metal, etc. ) or a more broad definition of disposal type. (e.g. MSW, C&D, Hazardous, etc. )
Industry:Environment
A tract of undeveloped property purchased with the intention of obtaining necessary permitting on which to operate a landfill. This would not include expansions to existing landfills.
Industry:Environment
Any waste that requires special handling. Special waste is non-hazardous waste generally from an industrial generator and must be profiled to ensure that it does not contain elevated levels of potentially hazardous chemicals or materials.
Industry:Environment
A segment of the collection business that is made up of single and multi-family dwellings.
Industry:Environment
Sectioned containers where individuals and businesses can put recyclable material or containers used for waste collection where individual service is not available.
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