The facility continued to operate as a municipal landfill until 1987.

The site, once a municipal landfill that was closed in the 70's, will be sealed.

Freedomland was built on the site of a former municipal landfill.

Most of this trash (57 percent) gets placed in municipal landfills.

This material is generally sent to municipal landfills for disposal.

The municipal landfill receives about 175 tons of garbage each day.

H5N1 "can remain infectious in municipal landfills for almost 2 years.

Several places in the ravine were also once municipal landfills, although all of them have now been shut down.

Nearly 20 percent of high-hazard Superfund sites are former municipal landfills.

The project is on 25 formerly city-owned acres that were once part of a municipal landfill.

It was vacant, and the town ultimately intended to use it as a municipal landfill.

Many municipal landfills have a household hazardous waste drop-off station for these materials.

The extraction area was also used as an uncontrolled municipal landfill for the city of Olot.

It was one of 80 municipal landfill sites in Powys, of which all have now closed.

It does take up space; one-quarter of 1 percent of municipal landfill space.

As waste sits in municipal landfills, greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere.

Mining of municipal landfills is more complicated and has to be based on the expected content of the landfill.

Proponents of the law say it would keep nonbiodegradeable plastics out of municipal landfills.

It may also leach from municipal landfills.

One well-known example is the use of municipal landfill gas (methane) as a source of energy for generating electricity.

And as more of the municipal landfills close, those owned by companies like Browning-Ferris become more valuable.

There's $500 million for waste management - closing unsafe municipal landfills and speeding municipal recycling.

The bistate agency took control of the entire 96-acre industrial site, once a municipal landfill, in 1981 and planned to develop an industrial park there.

The end product is completely sanitized and even previously bio-hazardous waste can be discarded in a normal municipal landfill.

The police followed and saw the records being dumped in the municipal landfill and prepared for a covering of sewerage sludge.