Waste Business Journal researchers call a wide variety of waste processing and disposal operations throughout the US and Canada to gather detailed data about their operations.

In addition to answering questions about who owns and operates the facility, we want to know what types of waste are accepted, how much and what price is charged for their acceptance. Furthermore, we ask and compile data on the types of equipment employed in the processing of the waste, recovery of materials and in pollution control.

Among the many types of facilities for which we compile data:

Landfills

Construction and Demolition Landfills

Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs)

Waste-to-Energy (Burn) Plants (W-T-E)

Transfer Stations

Special waste processing facilities

The type of information we gather:

Location and type of facility

Names, addresses and phone numbers for both owners and operators

Types of waste accepted

Volumes of waste by type accepted daily and yearly

Tipping fees or prices charged for each type of waste accepted

Operating and processing capacity (in tons per day, year or both)

Remaining permitted disposal capacity (landfills)

Types of equipment installed