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Rumpke Landfills: Protecting Human Health & the Environment

We all produce trash. Every day across the United States, each person produces about 5 lbs. of waste. For Rumpke and our team of nearly 4,000 employees, it’s our responsibility to innovate and stay at the forefront of providing communities, businesses and homes with solutions for all the stuff we throw away. Rumpke owns or operates landfills throughout Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Each landfill is a highly engineered structure meticulously designed to protect human health and to preserve the environment. Landfills manage challenges of municipal solid waste, leachate (wastewater), surface water, and gas collection. The landfill expansion process can take 3 to 14 years (or longer). It involves extensively land use studies, including wetlands investigations and hydro-geologic investigations to understand soil makeup and potential nearby aquifers. There are also several permits required, including a Federal wetland permit, state wetland and endangered species permit, Clean Air Act permit, Clean Waters Act permit, and the solid waste permit. When all permits are properly approved, landfill construction can proceed. Landfills are built in phases called "cells." Each cell has a liner system of clay, plastic, geotextile fabric and gravel. Along with disposing of waste, daily operations of a landfill involves mitigation of dust, mud, litter, odor, and more. Each landfill has an extensive network of groundwater and surface water monitoring wells, along with regular EPA inspections. Several Rumpke landfills have gas collection systems to beneficially reuse gas from decomposing waste as an electric or gas energy source.