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Landfills throughout Michigan

 

http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-whm-stsw-mapoflandfillsinLP.pdf

            There are two basic types of landfills. A Type II municipal landfill can accept virtually any non-hazardous solid waste for disposal. A Type III construction or demolition landfill is used for a particular waste. (http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-ead-tasect-wv-landfills.pdf)  In order to fully understand the implications of Canadian trucks disposing of their waste in Michigan, the violations that can occur within these landfills needs to be addressed.

Common Violations within Type II and Type III Landfills according to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ):

  • Not installing or maintaining proper fencing and gates that will restrict public access or other unauthorized entrance to the landfill.
  • Not constructing, maintaining, or operating on-site roads in a manner that will prevent the restriction of traffic flow, a nuisance, or the tracking of soil on public roadways.
  • Having inadequate monitoring procedures that allow disposal of hazardous waste, liquid waste, yard waste, or other prohibited materials into the landfill.
  • Allowing site conditions that create a dust, blowing litter, or odor nuisance.
  • Not ensuring that a minimum of six inches of earthen material or a department approved alternate daily covers is used to cover solid waste daily.
  • Not ensuring that any fill area, which has not had waste added to it has been exposed for three months or more, has a minimum of one foot compacted cover in place.
  • Not maintaining the landfill in a manner that minimized ponding of water and erosion at the site.
  • Accepting for disposal solid waste from Michigan counties that are not authorized by the applicable county solid waste management plans.

The overabundance of trash in Michigan is not only due to trash coming from Canada (although Canada imports 18% or all trash coming into Michigan), garbage is also coming from Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. Michigan has become know as the landfill capital of the world. That is not a reputation that we in Michigan are proud of.

 

 

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