A BFI Waste Systems worker is dwarfed by a 100,000-ton trash compactor at Superior Emerald Park Landfill in Muskego. A BFI Waste Systems worker is dwarfed by a 100,000-ton trash compactor at Superior Emerald Park Landfill in Muskego. Mallard Ridge, Kestrel Hawk and Valley Meadows in Jefferson County also received lesser amounts of waste from Iowa. When the state enacted another version of that law in 1997, it also was challenged in court by waste haulers and also declared unconstitutional. The rest came from Minnesota, Michigan and Iowa.
States surrounding Wisconsin impose surcharges on landfill waste.
Currently, Wisconsin has a state-imposed surcharge on landfill waste of only 74.7 cents a ton. Most of that revenue goes into the state's environmental fund to pay for such things as landfill cleanups. Landfill owners charge tipping fees in addition to any state-imposed surcharges on waste. Those additional costs to municipalities would have to be paid by property tax revenue, Jensen said. Now he wants taxpayers to spend more money.