"Confronted with the pressure of dwindling disposal capacity, New York has accomplished surprisingly little to alleviate its impending crisis," the group said.

Typical ways to recycle or dispose in a landfill often cannot be used for disaster debris because of the large amounts of waste that can overwhelm existing disposal capacity.

She is keeping an eye on county alternative plans to gain disposal capacity.

But it is still unclear how much the plastic industry's recent foray into recycling can reduce the burden of waste that is overtaxing the nation's disposal capacities.

Each state must be proportionately responsible for assuring safe, high-quality disposal capacity.

Waste flow in New Jersey is basically being used to finance excess disposal capacity.

He added that he feared that the agency did not establish strong criteria for valid estimates of hazardous wastes and disposal capacity.

"And we will be saving disposal capacity so that there is room to accommodate the waste which cannot be reused, recycled or incinerated to produce energy."

There are doubts as to whether we have at our disposal sufficient capacity and sufficient personnel to guarantee the comprehensive monitoring that will be necessary.

The bidders have offered the city 21,242 tons worth of disposal capacity, far in excess of the approximately 5,000 tons the city still needs.