GARDEN MOWINGS – Garden clippings such as grass, leaves, sticks and landscape clippings should be composted on-site or taken to a composting facility. Only pruning that is sick, infested or part of an invasive species control program may be deposited. Check with your city, municipality or waste supplier to see if they collect these materials. Large registered composting plants can be found online in Michigan.gov/EGLECompost. Small facilities that accept compost from residents can be found in the Michigan Recycling Directory, available at Michigan.gov/RecyclingDirectory. For more information on composting, see Michigan.gov/EHSGuide and Chapter 2, Section 2.1.1.b. Franchise agreements are aimed at private freight forwarders whose business model is based on the collection and transport of solid waste. It is required for any waste transportation company that uses the landfill. Here are the steps to find the process: Modern landfills are well-designed and managed solid waste disposal facilities. Landfills are located, designed, operated and monitored to ensure compliance with federal regulations. They are also designed to protect the environment from contaminants that may be present in the waste stream. Landfills cannot be built in environmentally sensitive areas, and they are placed on-site using environmental monitoring systems.

These monitoring systems check for signs of groundwater and landfill gas contamination and provide additional safeguards. Today`s landfills must meet stringent design, operation and closure requirements set out in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Subtitle D focuses on state and local governments as the primary planning, regulatory, and implementing bodies for the management of non-hazardous solid wastes such as household waste and non-hazardous industrial solid waste. Subtitle D landfills include: The Solid Waste Management Program is responsible for licensing municipal and industrial non-hazardous waste management facilities, including landfills, transfer stations, treatment plants and coal ash production facilities. A municipal landfill (MSWLF) is a separate area of land or excavation that collects household waste. An MSWLF can also receive other types of non-hazardous waste, such as commercial solid waste, non-hazardous sludge, conditionally exempted small generator waste, and non-hazardous industrial solid waste. In 2009, there were approximately 1,908 MSWLFs in the continental United States, all managed by the states in which they are located. Fact sheet describing how landfill recovery can be used to increase MSWLF capacity.

USED TIRES – Used tires should be recycled whenever possible. Details on the management requirements for end-of-life tyres of companies and institutions can be found in section 2.5 of Chapter 2 of Michigan.gov/EHSGuide. A landfill may accept the disposal of tires if they are halved or otherwise treated by shredding, cutting or hoeing. A list of registered end-of-life tyre installations, including end-of-life tyre transporters, collection points, transformers and end-users, is available in Michigan.gov/ScrapTires. Residents can find options for picking up used tires by searching the Michigan Recycling Directory, available in Michigan.gov/RecyclingDirectory. The Solid Waste Program is moving to online reporting for quarterly and annual landfill supplement reports, as well as annual landfill reports in 2021. Information can be found on the Solid Waste Management Program website as it becomes available. Section 11514 of Part 115, Solid Waste Management, of the Natural Resources and Environment Protection Act, 1994, PA 451, as amended (NREPA), and its rules prohibit the disposal of certain materials in a non-hazardous solid waste landfill.

This website identifies prohibited landfill waste and ordinary hazardous waste with additional management requirements for landfill disposal. It indicates how to deal with the listed materials, who has regulatory oversight of their handling, and how to find more information. Leachate – produced when rainwater is filtered through waste in a landfill. When this liquid comes into contact with landfilled waste, it washes or extracts chemicals or components from that waste. HAZARDOUS WASTE – Most hazardous waste from businesses and institutions must be sent to an approved hazardous waste disposal facility. Hazardous waste disposal facilities are subject to additional requirements and are permitted separately from landfills. Household hazardous waste such as solvents, detergents and pesticides should not be disposed of in landfills. However, they are also not well suited for waste disposal. As a result, waste transportation companies, solid waste reception facilities and some municipalities may have specific policies for the disposal of household hazardous waste. Local residents can find opportunities to collect household hazardous waste in Michigan.gov/EGLEHHW. To learn more about how hazardous waste from non-domestic persons should be disposed of, go to Michigan.gov/EHSGuide and read Chapter 2, Section 2.4.

If you have any questions, contact the hazardous waste program officer in your local district office. Memorandum to provide states and MSWLF facility managers with options for disposing of potentially contaminated carcasses and waste from chronic wasting disease in municipal waste landfills.