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

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.

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

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

As of January, there were 278 municipal landfills remaining in the state; by 1990, the figure is expected to drop to about 130.

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

This material is generally sent to municipal landfills for disposal.

No municipal landfills: the last closed in the early 1990's under a 1983 state law meant to protect groundwater.

Between the early 1920s and the late 1970s the five municipal sanitary landfills were in black neighborhoods.