October 2006
Nonhazardous Solid Waste
Management and Landfill
Capacity in Illinois: 2005
Nonhazardous
Solid Waste Management
And Landfill Capacity
In Illinois: 2005
Reporting period for waste disposal: Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2005
Reporting date for landfill capacity: Jan. 1, 2006
This report has been prepared for the Governor of the State of Illinois and the General Assembly
in accordance with Section 4 of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act.
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Bureau of Land
Division of Land Pollution Control
Waste Reduction and Compliance Section
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
October 2006
IEPA/BOL/06-003
Additional Information and Acknowledgements..........................................................................................vii
Photo Credits............................................................................................................................................ viii
Preface .......................................................................................................................................................ix
How to Use the Illinois EPA Landfill Capacity Report.................................................................................. x
Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................................xi
Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 1
Maps......................................................................................................................................................... 17
Region One: Northwestern Illinois..........................................................................................................R1.1
Region Two: Chicago Metropolitan ........................................................................................................R2.1
Region Three: Peoria/Quad Cities.........................................................................................................R3.1
Region Four: East Central Illinois...........................................................................................................R4.1
Region Five: West Central Illinois...........................................................................................................R5.1
Region Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis .................................................................................................R6.1
Region Seven: Southern Illinois .............................................................................................................R7.1
Appendix A: Solid Waste Landfill Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by Facility .....................................A1
Appendix B: Solid Waste Landfill Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by County .....................................B1
Appendix C: Solid Waste Landfills Ranked by Waste Received: 2005 .....................................................C1
Appendix D: Solid Waste Landfills Ranked by Remaining Capacities; as of Jan. 1, 2006........................D1
Appendix E: Solid Waste Transfer Station Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by Facility .......................E1
Appendix F: Solid Waste Transfer Station Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by County....................... F1
Appendix G: Solid Waste Transfer Stations Ranked by Waste Received: 2005 ...................................... G1
Appendix H: Landscape Waste Compost Facility Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by Facility ............H1
Appendix I: Landscape Waste Compost Facility Owners and Operators: Alphabetic by County ............. I1
Appendix J: Landscape Waste Compost Facilities Ranked by Waste Received: 2005 ........................... J1
Appendix K: Contact List for Solid Waste Planning and Recycling: Alphabetic by County .......................K1
Appendix L: Adoption Dates and Updates of Solid Waste Management Plans:
Alphabetic by County............................................................................................................ L1
Appendix M: Municipal Waste Generation and Recycling: Alphabetic by County .................................... M1
Contents
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 iii
State Solid Waste Surcharge Fees ............................................................................................................. 2
New Facilities Permitted to Expand or be Upgraded in 2006 ...................................................................... 4
State of Origin of Wastes Received at Illinois Landfills in 2005................................................................... 5
Illinois Landfills: Waste Accepted in 2005 Versus 2004 .............................................................................. 5
Illinois Landfills: Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006 Versus Jan. 1, 2005.................................................. 6
Waste Disposed and Landfill Capacity Per Capita; Landfill Life Expectancy .............................................. 6
Statewide Landfill Capacity is Adequate Despite Same Number of Facilities ............................................. 7
National Solid Waste Management Figures for 2003 Reported by US EPA ............................................... 8
Municipal Waste Management in Illinois: 2005 ........................................................................................... 8
Municipal Waste Generated & Recycled..................................................................................................... 9
Compost Facilities: Waste Handled in 2005.............................................................................................. 10
Transfer Stations: Waste Handled in 2005................................................................................................ 11
Local Agencies Delegated to Inspect Pollution Control Facilities for the Illinois EPA (map) ..................... 15
Illinois Landfills, 2005 (map)...................................................................................................................... 17
Landfills Receiving Waste from Other States in 2005 (map)..................................................................... 19
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Administrative Regions (map) .................................................. 21
Region One: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2005 (map depicting capacity gains or losses) ............R1.1
Region One: Landfills: Waste Accepted 2005; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006 ..............................R1.2
Region One: Transfer Stations: Waste Handled 2005 ...........................................................................R1.3
Region One: Compost Facilities: Waste Accepted 2005........................................................................R1.4
Region One: Municipal Waste Recycled ................................................................................................R1.4
Region Two: Chicago Metro Area Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2005 (map)..................................R2.0
Region Two: Landfills: Waste Accepted 2005; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006 ..............................R2.3
Region Two: Solid Waste Statistics........................................................................................................R2.3
Region Two: Transfer Stations: Waste Handled 2005 ...........................................................................R2.6
Region Two: Compost Facilities: Waste Accepted 2005........................................................................R2.6
Region Two: New Chicago Metro Area Transfer Stations 2003-2005....................................................R2.6
Region Two: Municipal Waste Recycled ................................................................................................R2.7
Region Three: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2005 (map depicting capacity gains or losses) .........R3.1
Region Three: Landfills: Waste Accepted 2005; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006............................R3.2
Region Three: Transfer Stations: Waste Handled 2005.........................................................................R3.3
Region Three: Compost Facilities: Waste Accepted 2005 .....................................................................R3.4
Region Three: Municipal Waste Recycled..............................................................................................R3.4
Region Four: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2005 (map depicting capacity gains or losses) ...........R4.1
Region Four: Landfills: Waste Accepted 2005; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006..............................R4.2
Region Four: Transfer Stations: Waste Handled 2005...........................................................................R4.3
Region Four: Compost Facilities: Waste Accepted 2005 .......................................................................R4.3
Region Four: Municipal Waste Recycled................................................................................................R4.4
Region Five: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2004 (map depicting capacity gains or losses) ............R5.1
Maps and Tables
iv Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
Region Five: Landfills: Waste Accepted 2005; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006 ..............................R5.2
Region Five: Transfer Stations: Waste Handled 2005 ...........................................................................R5.3
Region Five: Compost Facilities: Waste Accepted 2005........................................................................R5.3
Region Five: Municipal Waste Recycled ................................................................................................R5.4
Region Six: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2005 (map depicting capacity gains or losses)..............R6.1
Region Six: Landfills: Waste Accepted 2005; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006 ................................R6.2
Region Six: Transfer Stations: Waste Handled 2005 .............................................................................R6.3
Region Six: Compost Facilities: Waste Accepted 2005..........................................................................R6.4
Region Six: Municipal Waste Recycled..................................................................................................R6.4
Region Seven: Landfills and Transfer Stations in 2005 (map depicting capacity gains or losses).........R7.1
Region Seven: Landfills: Waste Accepted 2005; Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006...........................R7.2
Region Seven: Transfer Stations: Waste Handled 2005........................................................................R7.3
Region Seven: Compost Facilities: Waste Accepted 2005 ....................................................................R7.3
Region Seven: Municipal Waste Recycled.............................................................................................R7.4
Maps and Tables
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 v
How to Obtain Additional Information
To learn more about municipal solid waste landfills, transfer
stations or compost facilities in Illinois, please call 217-785-
8604, or write to:
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Bureau of Land
Division of Land Pollution Control
Waste Reduction and Compliance Section
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Our Internet address is http://www.epa.state.il.us
When using courier services (UPS, Airborne, etc.), please use
the following street address and zip code:
1021 North Grand Avenue East
Springfield, IL 62702
Acknowledgements
This document is produced and published by the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency, Douglas P. Scott, Director.
Primary Editor was Ellen Robinson of the Waste Reduction and
Compliance Section, Bureau of Land.
The report is printed in the Agency’s print shop. Many thanks to
Tom Davis who provided publishing advice to the Primary
Editor. Dennis McMurray and Nina Dugger provided editing.
Excellent typing and design was provided by Judy Brubaker, the
Section’s administrative support. Posters were from fifth and
sixth graders from Illinois schools who won our 2003-2004
contest. Full length, fold-out State of Illinois and Chicago
Metropolitan area maps were designed by Ted Prescott using
GIS software.
Illinois EPA Bureau of Land personnel contributed their time and
expertise to the development of this publication. Computer data
calculation was provided by Darrel Watkins. Assistance with
technical matters regarding permitting and inspecting was
provided by Tom Hubbard, Gary Cima, Gary Steele and Imran
Syed. Photos were chosen by Gary Steele and Ellen Robinson.
Todd Marvel is our used tire expert. Cheryl Stinnett collected
data regarding transfer stations.
The Agency also wishes to thank the staff of the 18 delegated
counties, plus Ambraw Valley Solid Waste Agency and the City
of Chicago who inspect and have first-hand knowledge of
approximately 50 percent of the landfills, transfer stations and
compost sites covered in this report. Staff from our seven
regional offices and delegated partners are responsible for
inspecting all Agency-permitted waste management facilities.
Additional Information and Acknowledgements
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 vii
Cover Photo: Closure activities at the Kankakee Recycling and Disposal Facility, Chebanse, include placement
of a high density polyethylene (HDPE) geo-membrane liner over a six-inch re-compacted clay layer
and a six-inch clay grading layer. The landfill served the waste disposal needs of Kankakee County
exclusively for 30 years. Photo taken by Donna Shehane, Solid Waste & Environmental Manager,
Kankakee County Planning Department, Kankakee
Page 1: $75,000 check presented to Keep Illinois Beautiful organization, Chicago
Page 11: Photo taken at Banner-Western Transfer & Recycling Center, Rockdale, by Tim Anderson,
Inspector, Will County Land Use Department, Waste Services Division, Joliet
Region 1: Poster: “Pitch in! Put Waste in its Place” By Lauren Lee, student, Grower Middle School,
Willowbrook (DuPage County). Winner of Illinois EPA’s School Poetry, Prose and Poster Contest
for 5th and 6th graders.
Region 2: Photos taken at Kankakee Recycling and Disposal Facility, Chebanse, by Donna Shehane, Solid
Waste & Environmental Manager, Kankakee County Planning Department, Kankakee
Region 3: Poster: “Pitch in. Put Waste in its Place: Are You as Smart as They Are?” by Emily Heinz, student,
Hampshire Middle School, Hampshire (Kane County). Winner of Illinois EPA’s School Poetry,
Prose and Poster Contest for 5th and 6th graders.
Region 4: Poster: “Pitch in - Put Waste in its Place” by Adrienne Strohm, student, North Elementary School,
Marshall (Clark County). Winner of Illinois EPA’s School Poetry, Prose and Poster Contest for 5th
and 6th graders.
Region 5: Photo taken of recyclable race car in front of Illinois EPA Headquarters by Robert Wiatrolik,
photographer, Illinois EPA, Springfield
Region 6: Photo taken at Roxana Landfill Inc., Roxana, by Richard Mersinger, Inspector, Madison County
Planning and Development Department, Edwardsville
Region 7: Photo taken of the Honorable Mayor John Rednour, City of DuQuoin, with the city’s Green
Communities visioning award, by Jason Van Zandt, Inspector, Perry County Solid Waste
Department, Pinckneyville
Landfills
Appendices A-D: Photo taken at Southern Illinois Regional Landfill, DeSoto, by Don Terry, Inspector, Jackson
County Health Department, Murphysboro
Transfer Stations
Appendices E-G: Photo taken at Groot Industries/Chicago, by George Hairston, Inspector, Chicago Department of
Environment, Chicago
Compost Sites
Appendices H-J: Photo taken at Thelen Sand & Gravel, Antioch, by Kristy Hecke, Inspector, McHenry County
Department of Health, Woodstock
Solid Waste Planning & Recycling
Appendices K-M: Photo taken of Illinois EPA’s prize-winning float entered in the Illinois State Fair and the
DuQuoin State Fair parades by Robert Wiatrolik, photographer, Illinois EPA, Springfield
Photo Credits
viii Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
T he capacity remaining in Illinois landfills as of January 1,
2006, decreased slightly, less than one percent. The
available space overall should serve the State’s residents
for at least another 19 years. In this, the Agency’s 19th annual
report on landfill disposal and available landfill capacity in Illinois,
we report to you not only the remaining capacity, but many other
useful facts about landfills and pollution control facilities
throughout the state.
Since its inception thirty-five years ago, the Illinois EPA has
overseen the development and operation of a productive system
of modern sanitary landfills. The Agency continues to ensure that
these facilities meet the strictest disposal standards in history, and
that they are engineered to be fully protective of human health
and the environment, especially where it concerns any possibility
of groundwater contamination.
In 2005, the number of active landfills in Illinois accepting waste
was 51. Years of waste disposal remaining for these landfills,
however, varied tremendously from region to region; ranging from
nine years in the Chicago Metropolitan area to 51 years in
Southern Illinois.
During 2005, Indian Creek Landfill #2, Hopedale, received a
significant modification permit and re-opened. Two other landfills
remain under development in Atkinson and Marion.
Roxana Landfill Inc. was allowed to expand both vertically and
horizontally on June 6, 2005. On June 8, 2006, Lee County
Landfill, Dixon, was permitted to expand.
Kankakee Recycling & Disposal Facility, Chebanse, ceased
accepting waste on November 18, 2005. RCS Landfill Inc.,
Jerseyville, decided for business reasons to de-activate their
landfill on April 28, 2006. These activities of landfill operators to
close landfills affect the local governments who rely on revenue
from landfill fees to fund recycling programs.
In 2005, 102 active transfer stations and 40 active compost
facilities are available to help manage waste generated in Illinois.
Inspections of waste management facilities are conducted by
personnel from Illinois EPA’s seven regional field offices and our
delegated partners. Our delegated partners include 18 counties,
Ambraw Valley Solid Waste Agency and the City of Chicago. They
have the authority to inspect landfills, transfer stations and
compost sites in their jurisdictions, and investigate citizen
complaints about illegal dumping of waste.
The Illinois EPA hopes you will find this information useful and
instructive and welcomes your comments and suggestions as to
how it may be improved.
Douglas P. Scott
Director
Illinois EPA
Preface
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 ix
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in
Illinois is Illinois EPA’s annual report describing the management
of nonhazardous municipal solid waste by the State’s solid waste
landfills, transfer stations and compost facilities. The report is
divided into sections representing Illinois EPA’s administrative
regions. Region 1 includes Northwestern Illinois counties; Region
2 includes Chicago Metropolitan counties; Region 3 includes
Peoria/Quad Cities area counties; Region 4 includes East Central
Illinois counties; Region 5 includes West Central Illinois counties;
Region 6 includes Metropolitan East St. Louis area counties; and
Region 7 includes Southern Illinois counties.
Each regional section includes newly designed specification pages
describing the chief physical characteristics of each landfill.
Provided are: its location and hours of operation, tipping fee,
quantities of wastes received for the last three years, the landfill’s
certified remaining capacity (in gate cubic yards) for the last two reporting dates, solid waste
management fees paid in 2005, the Agency regional field office or delegated local authority that
inspects the facility, and the name, address and phone number of the landfill’s owner and
operator. Similar, but scaled down, specification pages are included for each transfer station. In
all, this report includes details of 55 landfills, 104 transfer stations and 44 compost facilities.
Those sites included were permitted to and accepted some waste in 2003, 2004 and/or 2005.
Landfill details are found in Appendices A through D; transfer station details are found in
Appendices E through G; landscape waste compost facility information is found in Appendices H
through J; the contact list for local (county) solid waste planning and recycling coordinators is
found in Appendix K; in Appendix L, information is found about updated local (county) solid waste
plans; and information about local municipal waste generation and recycling is found in Appendix
M.
Additionally, this 19th edition of the report contains a state map designed with GIS software
showing locations of Illinois landfills. A Chicago Metropolitan area map also shows the locations
of transfer stations in addition to the location of landfills.
How to Use the Illinois EPA Landfill Capacity Report
x Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
T HIS IS THE ILLINOIS EPA’S 19TH ANNUAL REPORT
describing the management of nonhazardous
municipal solid waste by the state’s solid waste
landfills, transfer stations and compost facilities.
The report is divided into sections representing Illinois
EPA administrative regions. Each regional section
includes specification pages describing the chief physical
characteristics of each landfill.
The list of active waste management facilities during 2005
includes 51 landfills, 102 transfer stations and 40 compost
sites.
Illinois municipal solid waste landfills are required to report
to the Illinois EPA the quantities of solid waste they
receive each year, and to calculate and report the amount
of remaining capacity on the first day of the following year.
During 2005, 51 landfills reported receiving a total of
almost 52.3 million gate cubic yards (more than 15.8
million gate tons) of waste. This volume was almost 1.5
million gate cubic yards less than the total received during
2004, a 2.7 percent decline.
As of Jan. 1, 2006, 51 landfills reported having a
combined remaining capacity of almost 980.4 million gate
cubic yards (almost 297.1 million gate tons), or almost 6.1
million gate cubic yards less than on Jan. 1, 2005, a
decline of less than one (0.6) percent.
Dividing wastes disposed during 2005 by capacity
remaining on Jan. 1, 2006, indicates an overall landfill life
expectancy in Illinois of 19 years at 2005 disposal rates
and barring capacity adjustments.
A new landfill in Region 3: Indian Creek Landfill #2,
Hopedale, is open. One landfill, Kankakee RDF,
Chebanse closed in November 2005. Expansions were
approved at Lee County Landfill, Dixon, and at Roxana
Landfill Inc., Roxana, in 2005.
Executive Summary
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 xi
Nonhazardous
Solid Waste Management
And Landfill Capacity
2005
Introduction
M UNICIPAL SOLID WASTE IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE
the garbage discarded by America’s households, stores,
offices, factories, restaurants, schools and other
institutions. “Discarded” most often, in Illinois, means disposed in
Agency-permitted landfills. Waste is also handled through other
alternative means of solid waste management, such as recycling and
composting, after it is collected.
The US EPA’s Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2003
Facts & Figures says that nationwide 55.4 percent of solid waste
was landfilled, 23.5 percent was recycled, 7.1 percent was
composted and 14 percent was incinerated. The 2003 report is the
latest one published by US EPA.
In 2005, Illinois landfills accepted almost 52.3 million gate cubic
yards of solid waste. Most Illinois waste was discarded in landfills
within our borders. Wastes entering or leaving Illinois are not
believed to noticeably affect this equation. Of all solid waste
landfilled in Illinois in 2005, 13 percent, or almost 7.0 million cubic
yards or 2.1 million tons, accepted by 25 landfills came from 10
other states. We know this because Illinois landfills have reported
these quantities on a quarterly basis to the Illinois EPA since 1992.
Waste haulers are not required to report how much Illinois waste
they transport to landfills in other states or from which counties in
Illinois waste is transported.
Almost 7.7 million tons of municipal waste is recycled
Much of Illinois is rural and far from recycling markets. Most local
governments provide recycling education and collect recycling data
from haulers as a public service.
Local recycling coordinators in Illinois, in 2005, voluntarily
reported that almost 7.7 million tons of municipal waste were
recycled. Total municipal waste generated was reported at 18.5
million tons.
Most of the heavily populated counties in the Chicago Metropolitan
and Metropolitan East St. Louis areas voluntarily report recycling
and waste generation figures annually. Recycling markets and
public interest in recycling are high there.
There is at present no mechanism in the State of Illinois law that
requires permitting for or reporting from recycling centers that do
not already transfer other municipal waste types from transfer
stations to landfills.
$75,000 Grant Keeps Illinois
Beautiful
Keep Illinois Beautiful’s President Joyce
Kagan Charmatz accepted a ceremonial
check from Illinois EPA’s Director on May
10, 2005. Funding for this $75,000 grant
came from enforcement penalties.
Each of 13 affiliates will receive $5,000 to
be used for environmental education, waste
reduction (reducing litter and increasing
recycling), beautification and community
improvement. The rest will support the
organization and its web site. The
organization’s mission is to provide
environmental education, public awareness
and community involvement, keeping
Illinois clean and green.
Region 1: Winnebago/Rockford Clean &
Beautiful; Region 2: Elgin Proud &
Beautiful, Keep Chicago Beautiful, Keep
Evanston Beautiful Inc., Keep Oak Park
Beautiful, and Keep West Cook Beautiful;
Region 3: Keep Rock Island Clean &
Beautiful Inc. and Peoria City Beautiful;
Region 4: Keep Vermilion County
Beautiful; Region 6: Keep Centralia
Beautiful Clean & Green, Keep Salem
Beautiful and Keep Mt. Vernon/Jefferson
County Beautiful; Region 7: Keep
Carbondale Beautiful Inc.
For more information, contact Joyce Kagan
Charmatz at 312-863-6196.
2005 Annual
Report
Topics Covered
Waste disposed in landfills,
2003-2005 (in gate cubic
yards and in gate tons)
Remaining disposal capacity
as of Jan. 1, 2005, and Jan.
1, 2006 (in gate cubic yards)
Specification pages for 55
landfills, 104 transfer stations
and 44 compost sites
Waste generated and recycled,
2005 (in tons)
Waste handled by transfer
stations, 2003-2005
(in tons)
Waste composted, 2003-
2005 (in tons)
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 1
Introduction
Burn Barrels Outreach
Campaign
Illinois EPA began a Burn Barrel Public
Education Campaign in September
2004 with funding from US EPA. The
goal of this 10-week initiative was to
educate the public about the
environmental hazards of burning
household waste and help them find
alternative disposal options. The
campaign consisted of newspaper
advertisements and radio spots
targeted in various parts of Illinois.
Local governments, including Solid
Waste & Recycling Coordinators and
delegated agencies, became a great
asset for us in promoting this public
education campaign. Federal
resources combined with State and
local partnerships could influence
some citizens to make better choices
for waste disposal.
Two newspaper ads may include local
contact information, and may be placed
in local newspapers. Our web site,
http://www.lllinoisburnbarrels.org
could link to yours. Newly revised
Illinois EPA brochures are also
available to distribute.
State Environmental Program Fees altered as of July 1,
2003
In 2003, the Illinois General Assembly approved Governor Rod R.
Blagojevich’s proposal for new and increased fees for several types
of environmental programs operated by Illinois EPA to implement
federal and state regulations. The fees impacted a wide range of
facilities, including landfills.
Those fees are authorized under Senate Bill 1903 (Public Act 93-32,
signed into law on June 20, 2003), and the fees became effective on
July 1, 2003, at the beginning of the state fiscal year.
Municipal waste landfill operators currently pay two fees based
upon the volume of waste received each year. Both of these fees
(Solid Waste Surcharge and Subtitle D Fee) were increased
beginning with the waste received on July 1, 2003 and there after.
The amount of the fee depends upon the total waste volume
received in a calendar year. Operators receiving more than 150,000
cubic yards of waste annually have the option of measuring waste
by volume (cubic yards) or weight (tons) to decide which unit to use
in calculating the fee payment. Operators that receive less than
150,000 cubic yards in a year would fall into one of four other fee
payment categories (see table below).
Permit-holders are aware that failure to pay fees when they are due
could result in a referral to the Attorney General’s Office and
potential penalties, pursuant to statute.
Additional information or assistance is available by contacting
Kevin Mably, Accountant, Bureau of Land, Planning and Reporting
Section, Financial Management Unit, at 217-785-8604.
Solid waste surcharges paid to units of local governments at this
time remain the same as those described in the (Illinois)
Environmental Protection Act, Section 22.15(j).
2 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
State Solid Waste Surcharge Fees
now pay a solid and also
Landfills Receiving: waste fee of: Subtitle D Fees
Greater than 150,000 cu. yds./yr. $2.00/ton or $0.95/cy $0.22/ton or $0.101/cy
Between 100,000 and 150,000 cu. yds./yr. $52,630 $7,020
Between 50,000 and 100,000 cu. yds./yr. $23,790 $3,120
Between 10,000 and 50,000 cu. yds./yr. $7,260 $975
Less than 10,000 cu. yds./yr. $1,050 $210
Cost to build landfills require investments
Developing a landfill requires enormous investments in land and
equipment totaling millions of dollars, plus engineering expenses,
fees to state and local governments, taxes, typical operating costs
and additional millions set aside for post-closure care. Consideration
will need to be made of costs to design, build, permit, operate, and
conduct post-closure care at a landfill.
Consideration of costs include those in the pre-development stage,
for site development and site operation, closure and post-closure
care and financial assurance.
Landfills are developed cell by cell
Landfills are divided into sections called phases or cells, which are
developed as needed, filled systematically so that specific loads of
waste can be located weeks or months later, and covered with soil or
other materials to prevent the spread of odors and problems with
vermin.
Trucks arriving at a landfill are inspected for prohibited
nonhazardous wastes and for hazardous wastes that Illinois bans
from landfilling including: bulk liquids, landscape wastes, lead acid
batteries, potentially infectious medical waste, used motor oil, white
good components and whole used tires. Loads are weighed and
details about them are recorded. They are then taken to the exposed
portion of the active cell, which is known as the working face.
Trucks empty their loads at the working face, where specially
designed bulldozers spread and compact the waste, crushing it to
eliminate air pockets and squeezing it into the smallest space
possible.
A ranking of these active facilities (Appendix C) finds the top five
landfills received 43.9 percent of waste landfilled in Illinois. This
unequal distribution of waste creates a difference between an
average landfill, which would have accepted almost 1.0 million gate
cubic yards (about 311 thousand gate tons) of waste, and a median
landfill, which would have received about 395 thousand gate cubic
yards (about 120 thousand gate tons).
Three landfill closings affect capacity
Three landfills reached their capacity limit and closed their gates
during 2003, 2004 and 2005. In Region 1: Freeport Municipal
Landfill #4 ceased accepting waste in April, 2003. In Region 2:
Kankakee Recycling and Disposal Facility ceased accepting waste
on Nov. 18, 2005. In Region 6: South Chain of Rocks RDF ceased
accepting waste on July 23, 2004, and declared certified closure on
June 22, 2005.
Streator Area Landfill #3, Streator, had a horizontal expansion of
4.7 million cubic yards of airspace under review, but chose to
temporarily close on April 9, 2005. On April 28, 2006, the landfill
in Jerseyville went inactive, for business reasons.
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 3
New funding to crack down
on illegal dumps
Governor Rod Blagojevich recommended a
Fiscal Year 2006 Budget for the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA)
that includes $5.5 million for Project IRID
(Illinois Removes Illegal Dumps), a new
initiative that will shut down open dumps,
crack down on landfill violators and
regulate construction debris disposal sites.
The new initiative will be paid for by using a
portion of existing fees paid by landfills.
The new IRID funding allots $1.5 million for
additional IEPA landfill inspection and
enforcement staff who will take on new
responsibilities for regulating an estimated
500 abandoned quarries and sand pits in
Illinois that are used for disposal of
construction and demolition waste.
An additional $1 million would be used for
increased grants to county governments
that help inspect landfills and open
dumping. The remaining $3 million would
go toward cleaning up the estimated 600-
900 open dumps across the state where
responsible parties cannot be found, and to
assist communities in removing
construction and demolition debris from
brownfields sites needed for
redevelopment.
“In the past year we have also made it
easier for citizens to use the Internet to
access IEPA’s information on air and water
quality, cleanups and enforcement,”
Director Scott added. “They can also file
environmental complaints and make
suggestions for enforcement projects
online and these efforts will also continue
and expand,” Director Scott added.
Statistics for an Average
Landfill in Illinois, 2005
Waste Disposed
1.0 million gate cu. yds. (about 311
thousand gate tons)
Capacity Available
19.2 million gate cu. yds. (5.8 million
gate tons)
Gate Cubic Yards and Tons
Illinois landfills are required to report to
the Illinois EPA the quantities of waste
received during each calendar year.
They must also calculate how much
capacity remains available for future
waste disposal as of Jan. 1st of the
following year.
These figures are submitted to the
Agency in “gate cubic yards,” or the
volume of waste entering the landfill’s
gate. Remaining capacities are
expressed as certified gate cubic
yards, meaning that calculations have
been certified as true and accurate by
a licensed professional engineer.
These numbers are found on landfill
specification pages in each of seven
regional sections in this report.
The term “in-place cubic yards” is used
to indicate wastes that have been
compressed to a half or a third or a
quarter of their original volume,
depending on the degree of
compaction achieved by the landfill.
Gate cubic yards can be difficult to
visualize. To aid the reader, we have
divided gate cubic yards by an industry
standard of 3.3 to achieve approximate
tons. In other words 3.3 gate cubic
yards = one gate ton.
Six landfills permitted to expand in 2004; two landfills
open in northern and southern Illinois
Six landfills in the state were permitted by Illinois EPA to expand in
2004. Additionally, in June 2004, Indian Creek Landfill No. 2,
Hopedale, was allowed to modify its permit and re-open, although it
had been inactive since the early 1990’s.
Prairie View RDF newly opened in January 2004 in Wilmington. In
March 2004, Perry Ridge Landfill newly opened in DuQuoin.
US EPA’s MSW Report, 2003
National solid waste data is available in the report Municipal Solid
Waste in the United States: 2003 Facts & Figures that was
published in April 2005. The report is found on-line at http://
www.epa.gov/msw/msw99.htm by searching for report number
EPA530-F-05-003. This report contains information about waste
generation. It categorizes the municipal solid waste stream by waste
type. The report’s executive summary is abstracted on page 8.
4 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
Acronyms Used in this Report
AKA Also known as
CS or CF Compost site or compost facility
CY or Cu.Yd. Cubic Yard (may be gate or in-place)
HDPE High density polyethylene
LF Landfill
LSW Landscape waste
MRRF Material Recycling and Recovery Facility
PPD/PCD Pounds per person per day/Pounds per capita
per day
RDF Recycling and Disposal Facility
TPD Tons per day
TPY Tons per year
TS Transfer station
New Facilities Permitted to Expand or be Upgraded in 2006
Region Landfill Municipality
Opening
Date Details
Design Airspace
(cu. yds.)1
One: Northwestern Illinois Lee County Landfill Dixon 6-8-06 Vertical (78 ft.) and horizontal
(125 ac.) expansion
29,400,000
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities Atkinson Landfill Atkinson Under
Construction
Lateral (78.2 ac.) and vertical
expansions over 45.7 ac.
9,250,000
Four: East Central Illinois Streator Area #3 Streator Under
Construction
horizontal expansion 4,700,000
Seven: Southern Illinois Saline County Landfill Harrisburg Under
Construction
Unit 2, Lateral Expansion
28.9 ac.
3,113,575
Total 47,963,575
1 Includes space for waste, intermediate or daily cover and capacity (in-place cubic yards)
Four: East Central Illinois ADS/McLean Co. LF
#2
Bloomington Under
Review
horizontal expansion 1,500,000
Waste was imported into Illinois from 10 other states
Illinois regional waste disposal and landfill capacities are shown on a
per capita basis in the table on the bottom of page six. Chicago
Metropolitan Region has the lowest remaining capacity per capita.
There is a moratorium against landfills within Chicago’s city limits.
Land prices are high in Chicago. Waste generated by Chicago
Metropolitan region’s population then becomes a state-wide problem
for Illinois counties. Also affected is available capacity at landfills in
at least two adjacent states, Indiana and Wisconsin.
Solid waste disposal data for 2005 is now available from the
State of Indiana
Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM),
Indianapolis, reported in its 2005 Summary of Indiana Solid Waste
Facility Data that 87 percent of waste imports to Indiana came from
27 Illinois counties. More than 2.7 million tons of Illinois waste were
imported into Indiana in 2005. Of the amount of Illinois waste
disposed of in Indiana in 2005, 96 percent came from the Chicago
area.
Illinois waste in 2005 was sent for disposal to one or more of 12
different landfills, seven transfer stations, one incinerator or two
construction & demolition disposal sites in these 16 Indiana counties:
Allen, Fulton, Hendricks, Knox, Lake, Marion, Newton, Pike, Porter,
Putnam, Shelby, Vanderburgh, Vermilion, Vigo, Warren and White.
Cook County, Illinois, in 2005 sent to Indiana's landfills and transfer
stations 2,624,219 tons of waste. That amount is 80 percent of the
waste imports to Indiana.
Indiana's 2005 report is available on-line at www.in.gov/idem/land.
Contact Ms. Michelle Weddle, Project Coordinator, IDEM at 317-
233-4624 for more information.
Any limits to out-of-state waste disposal in other states, or local
capacity shortages, could put pressure on Chicago Metropolitan area
waste management systems, and may cause a local shortage in
landfill disposal capacity for Chicago Metropolitan area’s citizens, in
the next decade.
State of Origin of Wastes
Received at Illinois Landfills
in 20051
Thirteen percent of all solid waste
landfilled in Illinois in 2005, 7 million
gate cubic yards (2.1 million tons),
comes to Illinois as imports from out-of-state.
Waste haulers are not required
by state law to report how much Illinois
waste they transported to landfills in
other states or from which counties (in
Illinois) waste is transported.
Most states exporting waste to Illinois
are neighbors of Illinois and share its
borders.
State of Origin Cu. Yds. Percent
Missouri 5,275,461 75.6%
Iowa 1,313,769 18.8%
Indiana 204,119 2.9%
Wisconsin 155,284 2.2%
Other States 2 16,419 0.2%
Kentucky 14,113 0.2%
Total 6,979,165 100%
1 25 landfills accepted some waste
from other states in 2005.
2 Five other states include: Arkansas,
Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and
Tennessee
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 5
Illinois Landfills: Waste Accepted in 2005 Versus 2004
Landfills
Accepting 2005 Waste
Waste Waste Accepted, Gate Cu. Yds._ Yearly Change_____ Share of
Region 2005 1 2005 2 20043 Cu. Yds. Percent State Total
One: Northwestern Illinois 7 12,960,037 12,317,877 + 642,160 + 5.2 24.8
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 10 11,579,571 11,918,357 - 338,786 - 2.8 22.1
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 9 4,364,835 4,521,285 - 156,450 - 3.5 8.3
Four: East Central Illinois 9 9,896,608 11,810,022 - 1,913,414 - 16.2 18.9
Five: West Central Illinois 5 2,177,606 1,925,322 + 252,284 + 13.1 4.2
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 5 9,026,017 9,201,085 - 175,068 - 1.9 17.3
Seven: Southern Illinois 6 2,290,601 2,060,922 + 229,679 + 11.1 4.4
Totals 51 52,295,275 53,754,870 - 1,459,595 - 2.7 100
1 Includes facilities that accepted municipal waste for less than one complete calendar year.
2 Includes 6,979,165 cubic yards of out-of-state waste (13% of state total) accepted by 25 Illinois landfills during 2005.
3 Includes 7,240,330 cubic yards of out-of-state waste (13% of state total) accepted by 27 Illinois landfills during 2004.
Capacity loss of less than one percent documented on Jan. 1,
2006
In a year that brought a less than one (0.6) percent decrease in landfill
capacity, five of seven regions reported declines ranging from 0.6
percent to 17 percent.
The table below compares landfill remaining capacities in “snapshots”
taken Jan. 1, 2005, and Jan. 1, 2006. The highest capacity decline of 17
percent was reported in the Chicago Metropolitan region.
Two new landfills (Prairie View Landfill, Wilmington, and Perry Ridge
Landfill, DuQuoin), six expansions and one upgraded landfill (Indian
Creek Landfill #2, Hopedale) throughout the State help buffer these
landfill closures.
6 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
Two Landfills Opened in
2004
Prairie View Recycling and Disposal
Facility, Wilmington, and Perry Ridge
Landfill, DuQuoin, opened in January
and March 2004.
Six additional landfills expanded in
2004, and one landfill in Hopedale
was upgraded and re-opened.
Illinois Landfills: Remaining Capacities Jan. 1, 2006 Versus Jan. 1, 2005
Landfills
Reporting Capacity
Capacity Reported Capacity, Gate Cu. Yds.___ Yearly Change_____ Share of
Region 1-1-06 1-1-06 1-1-05 Gate Cu. Yds. Percent State Total
One: Northwestern Illinois 7 186,215,000 193,613,000 - 7,398,000 - 3.8 19.0
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 10 107,994,000 130,133,000 - 22,139,000 - 17.0 11.0
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 9 202,066,000 203,304,000 - 1,238,000 - 0.6 20.6
Four: East Central Illinois 9 164,228,000 172,131,000 - 7,903,000 - 4.6 16.8
Five: West Central Illinois 5 51,087,000 50,645,000 + 442,000 + 0.9 5.2
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 5 150,965,000 117,050,000 + 33,915,000 + 29.0 15.4
Seven: Southern Illinois 6 117,847,000 119,597,000 - 1,750,000 - 1.5 12.0
Totals 51 980,402,000 986,473,000 - 6,071,000 - 0.6 100
Waste Disposed and Landfill Capacity Per Capita; Landfill Life Expectancy
Estimated Waste Disposed, Cu. Yds. 1 Remaining Capacity, Cu. Yds Landfill Life
Region Population 2005 Per Capita Jan. 1, 2006 Per Capita Years2
One: Northwestern Illinois 822,898 12,960,037 15.7 186,215,000 226.3 14
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 8,745,491 11,579,571 1.3 107,994,000 12.3 9
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 760,131 4,364,835 5.7 202,066,000 265.8 46
Four: East Central Illinois 863,562 9,896,608 11.5 164,228,000 190.2 17
Five: West Central Illinois 563,134 2,177,606 3.9 51,087,000 90.7 23
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 712,077 9,026,017 12.7 150,965,000 212.0 17
Seven: Southern Illinois 434,736 2,290,601 5.3 117,847,000 271.1 51
Totals 12,902,029 52,295,275 4.1 980,402,000 76.0 19
1 Amounts reported in gate cu. yds.
2 Remaining capacity divided by waste disposed. Tells how long a region may be served by local landfills at current disposal rates,
barring capacity adjustments, until capacity is depleted.
Statewide Landfill Capacity is Adequate Despite Same Number of Facilities
At the end of each year, Illinois landfill operators calculate how much waste they will be able to accept in
the future. This volume is known as remaining or available capacity, and is expressed in gate cubic yards,
meaning waste received at the landfill’s gate before it is compacted. One industry rule of thumb says 10
gate cubic yards of waste can be compressed into five compacted cubic yards. Obviously, the greater the
compaction, the more waste can be buried.
In 2005, 51 landfills reported accepting 52.3 million gate cu. yds. of waste from Illinois counties and 10
other states besides Illinois. The 980.4 million cubic yards of available capacity allows for 19 years of
landfill life statewide.
Tight Regulations Force Cutbacks Pushing Survivors to Build Capacity
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Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 7
Active landfills accepting waste each year Available landfill space, millions of gate cubic yards
Millions of gate cubic yards Wastes landfilled, millions of gate cubic yards
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increase
40.5%
increase
Municipal Waste
Management Plans
and Plan Updates
The Solid Waste Planning and
Recycling Act requires all Illinois
counties and the City of Chicago to
develop, adopt and implement 20-year
municipal waste management plans.
Every five, 10 and 15 years, each plan
must identify changes in planning
areas, evaluate progress in the plan
implementation and, if necessary,
revise plan recommendations and
goals. A county also has the option of
updating its solid waste generation
data. The plan is then submitted to
Illinois EPA for review and comment.
Questions concerning these plans
should be directed to the appropriate
local administrators listed in Appendix
K of this report. Due dates for
submitting plan updates to Illinois EPA
are found in Appendix L.
Contact Ellen Robinson for more
information about this requirement of
state law at 217-785-8604.
Municipal waste management in Illinois: 2005
Landfilling continues to play the largest role in the handling of
municipal waste in Illinois. It is estimated that 61.3 percent of the
waste stream was landfilled in 2005. Waste data collected is from
landfill operators (more than 15.8 million tons), and compost site
operators (393,568 tons), and the amount reported as recycled by
local recycling coordinators (about 9.6 million tons) were added
together and percentages for each were calculated.
Waste generation, as calculated by recycling coordinators, does not
include the amounts of landscape waste land applied on-farm and
any household management of municipal waste. No waste was
burned in commercial municipal waste incinerators in Illinois during
2005.
Municipal waste management then, computes to the following rates:
landfilling: 61.3 percent; recycling: 37.1 percent and composting:
1.5 percent. These figures are outlined below in a pie chart.
8 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
Landfilling
61.3%
Composting
1.5%
Recycling
37.1%
National Solid Waste Management Figures for 2003 Reported by US EPA 1
Number of municipal solid waste landfills in the US (2002) 1,767
Average number of landfills per state 35
Million Tons Percent PPD 2
Waste generated 236.2 100% 4.45
Waste recycled and composted 72.3 30.6% 1.36
Waste recycled 55.4 23.5% 1.04
Waste composted 16.9 7.1% 0.32
Waste landfilled and combusted 163.9 69.4% 3.09
Waste landfilled 130.8 55.4% N/A
Waste combusted 33.1 14.0% N/A
1 Source: Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2003 Facts & Figures, US EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, April 2005
2 PPD = Pounds Per Person Per Day
Municipal Waste Management in Illinois: 2005
In Illinois, recycling information is county-based
County solid waste coordinators are asked to voluntarily answer an
Illinois EPA survey and to provide a checklist of items that can be
recycled in their county.
Contact information for recycling coordinators from the counties is
available on-line at http://www.illinoisrecycles.com. In Illinois,
102 counties and the City of Chicago are required under the Solid
Waste Planning and Recycling Act to be responsible for solid waste
management issues within their jurisdiction.
Recycling Related Links
Links available for the following at
http://www.illinoisrecycles.com
Illinois EPA’s Household Hazardous Waste
Collection Information
Illinois EPA’s Partners for Waste Paint
Solutions
Illinois EPA’s Waste Tire Collection
Information
Industrial Material Exchange Service
Illinois Counties Solid Waste Management
Association
http://www.ilcswma.org
Illinois Department of Agriculture’s
Agrichemical Container Recycling
Information
http://www.agr.state.il.us/
environment/recycle.html
Illinois Recycling Association
http://www.illinoisrecycles.org
State Solid Waste and Recycling Grants
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
(DCEO), Bureau of Energy and Recycling, issues a number of state
grants to governments, not-for-profit organizations and businesses.
For information about state grant programs promoting recycling,
view their program information at www.illinoisrecycles.com.
Division and Contact Person Phone
Division of Recycling & Waste Reduction
David Ross, Division Manager 217-782-7887
Illinois Recycling Grants Program
David Ross, Acting Section Manager 217-782-7887
Recycling & Expansion Modernization Program
Mike Motor, Section Manager 217-524-0933
I-STEP (Energy & Recycling Education) Program
Peggy Chamness, Section Manager 217-785-2765
The web site www.illinoisrecycles.com also has information
about companies within Illinois who recycle computers and other
electronics and links to other recycling resources.
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 9
Municipal Waste Generated & Recycled
Estimated Waste Generated Waste Recycled_
Region Population Tons PCD 1 Tons Percent
One: Northwestern Illinois 822,898 895,781 6.0 224,315 25.0
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 8,745,491 20,890,853 13.1 8,527,772 40.8
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 760,131 977,033 7.0 281,427 28.8
Four: East Central Illinois 863,562 1,055,654 6.7 214,921 20.4
Five: West Central Illinois 563,134 467,624 4.6 106,377 22.7
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 712,077 611,011 4.7 177,970 29.1
Seven: Southern Illinois 434,736 389,708 4.9 59,002 15.1
Total 12,902,029 25,287,664 10.7 9,591,784 37.9
1 PCD = Pounds per capita per day.
On-Farm Composting
Facilities
In rural areas, farming provides an outlet to
manage landscape waste through the
(Illinois) Environmental Protection Act’s
provisions for on-farm composting and its
exemption from permitting, provided the
site meets all Section 830.106 a) and b)
requirements including:
• The site where composting is done
must be located on property farmed by
the person operating the composting
facility. The farm acreage used for the
composting process cannot be more
than two percent of the property’s
acreage.
• The compost site, and the land where
the compost is to be used, shall be
“principally and diligently devoted to
the production of agricultural crops”.
• The land used and the farmer shall not
be associated with a waste hauling
company, or a generator of non-agricultural
compost materials (a tree
trimming business, nursery, cemetery
or utility company). If the farmer is paid
to haul the landscape waste to the site,
he would not be qualified for the
exemption.
• The compost needs to be used on the
farm within 18 months after completion
of composting.
• The compost site must meet required
setbacks from wells (200 feet), nearest
residence (one-fourth mile) and
groundwater (five feet). The site cannot
be within the 10-year flood plain, or
have more than 10 occupied non-farm
homes within one-half mile.
• The farmer needs to register the site
with the Illinois EPA, and submit an
annual report. Fourteen sites in Illinois
have done so.
• The standards of 35 Ill. Adm. Code,
Section 830.106 and minimum
performance standards of 830.202
apply, that includes controlling odors,
processing waste within five days, run-off
and run-on control and windrow
construction.
Composting increased by 1.5 percent
Landscape wastes were banned from Illinois landfills beginning July
1, 1990.
In 2005, the State’s 40 compost facilities processed 393,568 tons of
landscape waste, a 1.5 percent increase from 2004’s total of 387,645
tons handled at 40 sites.
Seventeen compost sites are located in the Chicago Metropolitan
area. Six compost sites are located in the Metropolitan East St.
Louis area.
Almost 30 percent of the landscape waste collected in 2005 was
managed at the top two compost sites: Thelan Sand & Gravel Site
#1, Antioch, and BFI Modern Landfill Compost Facility Site #2,
Belleville, operated by St. Louis Composting.
Compost Facilities: Waste Handled in 2005
Active
Region Facilities Tons
One: Northwestern Illinois 5 37,179
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 17 198,408
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 5 21,203
Four: East Central Illinois 4 30,251
Five: West Central Illinois 1 60
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 6 104,468
Seven: Southern Illinois 2 1,999
Total 40 393,568
10 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
Land application of landscape waste
An increasing amount of landscape waste may also be managed by
land application in Illinois in accordance with Section 21(q)(2) of
the (Illinois) Environmental Protection Act. Application must not
exceed 20 tons per acre per year. There are 14 farms throughout
Illinois that accept landscape waste for land application.
Six facilities in Illinois accept organic materials for composting:
Region Site Name City
1 Rare Earth Diversified Services Walnut
2 Thelen Sand & Gravel #3 Antioch
3 LHF Compost Inc. Peoria
4 Eldon Steidinger Farm Strawn
ISU Farm Compost Lexington
5 Excel Corporation Beardstown
Resource Conservation
Challenge (RCC) has Multi-faceted
Goals
This federal initiative has three primary
objectives:
1) to prevent pollution and promote recycling
and reuse of materials;
2) to reduce the use of toxic chemicals; and
3) to conserve energy and materials.
The Scrap Tire Workgroup of the RCC works on
issues related to scrap tire management, clean-up
and market development. There are several
committees that consist of representatives from
various State environmental agencies, industry,
U.S. EPA and those academics having
expertise in scrap tire management, market
development and application technologies.
These committees discuss goals, tire-derived
fuel, civil engineering, rubberized asphalt and
ground rubber issues.
Action plans were developed to:
• divert 85 percent of newly generated scrap
tires to reuse, recycling or energy recovery
by 2008 (vs. 70% in 2003) and
• reduce by 55 percent the number of tires
(270 million in 2003) in existing stockpiles by
2008.
Diversion of scrap tires to reuse, recycling
or energy recovery
The best solution to divert scrap tires from tire
piles and landfills consists of finding strong and
diverse markets. About 290 million scrap tires
are generated in the United States each year,
so any major market disruption will cause a
significant increase in tire piles. More diverse
recycling and re-use markets are needed to
adapt to market fluctuations.
Reduction of tire piles/stockpiles
Tire pile cleanup is principally achieved by
supporting State tire pile clean-up programs
already in place. In addition, the topics of
ground rubber, civil engineering applications,
rubberized asphalt and Tire Derived Fuel will be
thoroughly explored.
Future Projects
Sixteen distinct projects are planned that will
collectively achieve the overall goals for
diversion of scrap tires to reuse, recycling or
energy recovery and stockpile reduction. Some
steps will need to be modified in order to react
to developing situations before and after 2008.
For more information about used tire
management, contact Todd Marvel, Bureau of
Land, Used Tire Program, at 217-785-8604.
In 2005, 45 of the 102 active transfer stations (44 percent)
voluntarily reported handling almost 5.4 million tons of municipal
waste, or 10 percent of waste landfilled statewide.
We do know the number of transfer stations that were permitted and
accepted waste for transfer, because they are inspected on a regular
basis by our Field Operations staff and the delegated partners. Over
the next decade, the number of transfer stations can be expected to
increase, as will the amount of waste they will handle.
The list of transfer stations above includes those that accept waste
for less than a complete year and those that only accept landscape
waste for transfer.
Transfer Stations: Waste Handled in 2005
Region 1 Facilities Tons
One: Northwestern Illinois 6 125,316
Two: Chicago Metropolitan 70 4,805,636
Three: Peoria/Quad Cities 4 43,180
Four: East Central Illinois 9 106,378
Five: West Central Illinois 4 153,450
Six: Metropolitan East St. Louis 5 28,596
Seven: Southern Illinois 4 126,222
Total 102 5,388,778
1 Each region contains active sites that did not voluntarily report amounts of
waste accepted.
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005 11
Transfer station and recycling center regulations proposed
The Agency has proposed developing specific regulations for
transfer stations. The Illinois Pollution Control Board web site
http://www.ipcb.state.il.us has more details about the status of the
rule-making process. For more information about this process,
contact 217-524-3300; our Bureau of Land permit reviewer on call.
Permitting requirements of Illinois EPA
New landfills or landfill expansions cannot be built unless the
Bureau of Land issues a permit. A Bureau of Air permit for a
landfill identified as a potential new source of air pollution must
also be obtained.
An initial completeness review of a permit application normally
takes 30 days. If omissions are found, the application is rejected as
incomplete. The applicant then has 35 days to provide additional
information to make an application complete. Once an application is
found to be complete, technical reviews are conducted.
Approval or denial of permit applications
During the review period, comments are solicited from Bureau of
Land’s Regional Office, Groundwater Assistance Unit and the Solid
Waste Unit. After review of the application, the addenda, and
comments from public officials, the general public and the regional
office, final action is ready to be taken.
If the reviewers have found the application to completely adhere to
applicable environmental regulations, the permit is approved
outright or with special conditions. If the application is deficient, the
Permit Section denies the permit.
Rather than sending out a formal denial letter, the reviewer prepares
a draft denial letter which explains the areas in the application that
are deficient. The applicant has a choice of either providing some
additional information in the form of an addenda to the original
application or asking the reviewer for a formal denial that could be
appealed to the Illinois Pollution Control Board. Additional
information is usually provided. Approval or denial of a permit
application takes 180 days, unless an extension is granted.
If the application is denied, an owner/operator could submit a new
application, appeal the Agency’s denial of the permit through the
Illinois Pollution Control Board or they could abandon the project.
Most applicants choose to submit a new application, starting the
180-day process over again.
Permits for landfills contain detailed requirements for the design,
construction, capacity and operation of the landfills. They also
contain stringent requirements for monitoring the groundwater
beneath and around the landfill to detect releases from the landfill
that would adversely impact the quality of the groundwater. Finally,
the permit contains detailed requirements to properly “close” the
landfill once it has been filled to permitted capacity and to provide
for proper care of the landfill after it has been closed.
Periodically, the owner/operator of a landfill must modify the
facility’s permit. These modifications may address many things,
including changes in construction and/or operational practices;
construction of cells within the permitted landfill boundaries; and
groundwater monitoring issues.
12 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill Capacity in Illinois: 2005
CCDD regulations adopted
for operations in mines,
quarries or other excavations
Public Act PA-272, effective July 19,
2005, required a permit to use Clean
Construction or Demolition Debris
(CCDD) as fill in a current mine, quarry
or other excavation. It also required the
Pollution Control Board to adopt
regulations for these operations by
September 1, 2006. This was completed
on August 17, 2006 with the adoption of
Part 1100 of the Illinois Administrative
Code. These regulations were adopted
after input from several stakeholders,
including the Illinois Association of
Aggregate Producers. Part 1100
replaces the interim operating standards
contained in Section 22.51 (c) (2) of the
Act. The use of an instrument to screen
in-coming loads, and the record-keeping
requirements were retained. The Part
1100 standards address the additional
issues of surface water control, more
formalized load checking, salvaging and
boundary control. An annual report and
an annual map showing the extent of
filling are now needed. Subpart C and D
of the 1100 regulations describe what
will be needed in a permit application
and the procedural requirements. The
Bureau of Land’s Permit Section will
contact registered operations regarding
the submittal of permit applications.
The remainder of the Section 22.51
requirements do not change. Also, these
standards only apply to those sites that
are in a current or former mine, quarry or
other excavation. The conditions
contained in the Illinois Environmental
Protection Act, Section 3.160, must be
met at other sites utilizing clean
construction or demolition debris.
The new regulations may be obtained
from the Illinois Pollution Control Board’s
Web page at www.ipcb.state.il.us.
Financial Assurance
Requirements
Funding for landfill closure, post-closure
maintenance and corrective
action must be provided by the landfill
owners and operators, ensuring costs
are not borne by taxpayers. Many
different mechanisms are available to
help landfill owners prove now that
they will be able to pay later.
Financial assurance mechanisms for
landfill closure and long-term care fall
into three broad categories: cash-in-hand,
trust funds or escrow accounts;
third-party insurance, including letters
of credit and surety bonds; and various
types of self-insurance. Self-insurance
can include a financial test, a
guarantee by a parent corporation or
government entity, or deferred funding
in the form of pledge of revenues. The
state can further determine which
mechanisms are allowable for publicly
and privately owned landfills and how
landfill owners and operators must
provide accounting.
Closure and long-term cost estimates
are revisited annually for active
landfills. For those which closed under
Part 807 regulations, review takes
place every two years. Costs are
updated based upon the remaining
post-closure care period and adjusted
for inflation. The funds available must
be adequate to cover the projected
costs.
For more information about Illinois
regulations regarding financial
assurance for landfills, contact Brian
White, Bureau of Land, at 217-785-
8604.
This report documents significant permit actions. However, only
those permit actions which change the items mentioned in the
“Facility Facts” section of the landfill specification pages are
acknowledged. Footnotes on each facility specification page show
permit actions made during 2002, 2003 and 2004. On page four of
the Introduction there is a chart entitled “New Facilities Permitted to
Expand or be Upgraded in 2004,” that presents more details on
vertical or horizontal (lateral) expansions.
For more information about items discussed in this report, submit a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on-line. Please be very
specific in your request for information and include the site’s
identification number, if possible. Go to http://www.epa.state.il.us
to make a FOIA request.
Closure and post-closure care period
Once a landfill has received its permitted volume of waste, it must
be “closed” in accordance with an approved plan and with Illinois
landfill regulations. Proper closure of a landfill includes establishing
a proper grading plan to allow for precipitation to run off the
landfill; constructing a final cover over the waste to minimize the
amount of precipitation that can infiltrate the landfill; establishing a
vegetative cover system over the final cover system to minimize
erosion; and finalizing the gas and leachate management systems to
ensure that gas and leachate generated in the landfill after the
landfill is closed are properly managed.
After a landfill has been properly closed, it must then receive at
least 30 years of post-closure care. Proper post-closure care includes
maintaining the vegetative cover to ensure it does not erode;
monitoring the groundwater to ensure there have been no releases
due to the landfill; and removing the gas and leachate generated in
the landfill to ensure that they do not have adverse impacts on the
area surrounding the landfill.
Closure activities, depending on the site, may include: capping the
landfill; installing monitoring devices if they are not already in
place; providing topsoil, seeding, and mulching as necessary; and
possibly converting the land for follow-up use. Routine post-closure
care continues for 30 years after the landfill closure certification is
approved and includes maintaining the surface cover; monitoring
gas produced; flaring or collecting any gas; monitoring, pumping
and transporting any leachate; and monitoring groundwater. Cost
estimates for both closure and post-closure care must be based on an
engineering estimate of the cost for a third party to perform the
necessary work and maintenance. Financial assurance is also
required for corrective action measures, such as remediation of
groundwater contamination.
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Landfill liner study and engineering education for Illinois EPA
staff
Illinois EPA's Bureau of Land, Permit Section, wrote some
recommendations in January 2003 for the 92nd General Assembly
in fulfillment of House Resolution 715.
“A Study of the Merits and Effectiveness of Alternate Liner
Systems at Illinois Landfills” is outlined on our web site.
Methodology and conclusions reached, as well as the entire report,
can be accessed at www.epa.state.il.us/land/publications/#solid-waste-
permits.
In addition, Illinois EPA has provided civil engineering training for
its staff. Topics included landfill liquid management, landfill gas
emissions, slope stability and slope failures, and geotechnical
engineering analysis. These classes were taught by civil engineering
professors from Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, and
University of Illinois, Urbana.
Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management and Landfill
Capacity in Illinois: 19th Annual Report (2005)
Section 4 of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act requires the
Agency to “publish a report regarding the projected disposal
capacity available for solid waste in sanitary landfills. . . . Such
reports shall present the data on an appropriate regional basis. . .
[and] shall include an assessment of the life expectancy of each
site.”
This legislative mandate explains why the main body of this report
is organized by seven Illinois EPA administrative regions, and why
landfill capacity and life expectancy are emphasized in nearby
tables and charts, and in text, tables, map symbology and landfill
specification pages in the regional sections.
Other states which write a report similar to this are Florida, Indiana,
Washington and Virginia. For more information contact Peter
Gorer, Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection at 850-487-9532;
Michelle Weddle, Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management at
317-233-4624; Ellen Caywood, Washington Dept. of Ecology at
206-459-6259; and John Ely, Virginia Dept. of Environmental
Quality at 804-698-4249.
Conclusion
Our state-wide analysis of solid waste management is now
concluded.
For more details about solid waste management throughout the
seven Illinois EPA administrative regions of Illinois, see the body of
the document on pages R1.1 through R7.17.
The Appendices also contain supporting documentation that will
prove to be very useful to those interested in these facilities.
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How to Check Status of
Bureau of Land Permit
Applications on the Internet
Once the Agency receives a permit
application, the Bureau of Land, Permit
Section (Section), proceeds with a
technical review. One of the databases
available to everyone on the Internet is the
Solid Waste Unit’s web database search.
With this database, one can determine the
status of permit applications that have
been submitted, and who the permit
reviewer is.
A Solid Waste Unit web database search
located at http://epadata.epa.state.il.us/
land/solidwaste is designed to inform the
public about applications submitted, or
permits obtained from the Bureau of Land
(BOL). The Section issues permits for the
management of non-hazardous waste at
landfills, transfer stations, compost, and
waste storage, treatment, processing, and
recovery facilities. On the search results
page, the log number is linked to a brief
description of the application. The main
identifiers for applications are:
1. the official BOL name of the site
2. the closest city to the site
3. the county where the facility is located
4. the application’s log number and
5. the site number: a 10-digit number that
is unique to each specific facility.
Choose search method from “Active” or
“Inactive” applications:
"Active" means an application is pending
for the site. "Inactive" means that there are
no applications currently pending, but there
may be applications for which the Section
has taken final action (issued, denied or
withdrawn).
Further searches may be made by City,
County, Log number or Site number.
For more help in using this database
search, contact the BOL Permit Reviewer
on call at 217-524-3300.
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Local Agencies Delegated to Inspect Pollution Control Facilities for the Illinois EPA
Eighteen counties, Chicago,
and Ambraw Valley Solid
Waste Agency inspect
pollution control facilities for
the Illinois EPA.
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Landfills Receiving Waste from Other States in 2005
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Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Administrative Regions
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Regional offices are located in Rockford, Des Plaines, Peoria, Champaign, Springfield, Collinsville and Marion
