In the United States throws out over 2.6 pounds of waste each day. In Ohio, nearly a ton of waste per resident is landfilled during each year. Throughout the country, solid waste management is becoming a major issue.
Several states have or are considering banning landfills.
A few states have mandated up to a fifty percent reduction in waste going to landfills. Some communities are establishing mandatory recycling programs. The most predominant form of disposal, the licensed sanitary landfill, is a relatively new system that has been around less than three decades. One of the very real problems facing society now is the managing of dumps and fills that have been closed for a long while. As the issue of waste management emerges as a potential crisis, concern is being given to the appropriateness of disposal methods.