landfill capacity

Many eastern states are near the end of their landfill capacity.

Indiana has only six to eight years of landfill capacity left.

He said it would help relieve the rapid decline in the city's landfill capacity, which is expected to run out by the year 2000.

Although it is true that incinerators will help solve the landfill capacity problem, they are far from the best solution.

Whenever landfill capacity runs out, New York's only option will be export.

The remaining landfill capacity is eight years, Mr. Coats said.

The northern region of the state, including Chicago, has less than seven years remaining before landfill capacity is exhausted, state officials said.

Ms. Messinger said the city might make $17 million a year but lose at least $45 million in landfill capacity.

The state stands to lose its ability to recycle waste because of a lack of landfill capacity.

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 27 states will run out of landfill capacity within five years.

State officials expect New York State to hit its landfill capacity by 1995.

A few of those towns, he said, "have considerable landfill capacity, but most of them have only got one or two years left."

No Room at the Landfills The incinerators are one way to deal with diminished landfill capacity.

The article reported a survey by the National Solid Waste Management Association of the change in landfill capacity over the past five years.

New Jersey and New York are the biggest exporters to Pennsylvania, where landfill capacity has doubled in the last decade.

The institute, a Washington-based research and policy organization, cited data indicating that more than half of all cities in the country would exhaust their landfill capacity by 1990.

They estimate that 85 percent of what an incinerator might burn is recyclable and say incinerator ash itself becomes a burden for shrinking landfill capacity.

In 1988 the Company acquired London Brick Landfill and with it an enormous landfill capacity north of London.

Nevertheless, many of these communities will proceed with building waste-to-energy plants because they are running out of landfill capacity, and only some of the garbage can be recycled.

The same momentum has built up in Pennsylvania where Gov. Tom Ridge has vowed to freeze landfill capacity and has doubled inspection of garbage trucks.

Taking plant material and soil containing plant material away for disposal off site uses valuable landfill capacity and increases the likelihood of the spread of invasive plants.

A package of bills aimed at tightening controls on medical waste, raising fees for trash disposal, freezing landfill capacity and banning barges was moving easily through the Legislature last week.

The few states which actually measured what was happening to landfill capacity reported that it was increasing, in some cases because more waste was being diverted to recycling or waste-to-energy plants.

MSW power plants reduce the need for landfill capacity because disposal of MSW ash requires less land area than does unprocessed MSW.

So, in reality, incineration does not relieve dependence on landfills; instead, it is merely a means of stretching our landfill capacity at enormous cost - a huge capital investment and environmental and health hazards.