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The existing 50.93-acre Chaffee Landfill is located on a 487.7-acre parcel of land wholly owned by Waste Management of New York, LLC, including mineral rights. The existing landfill and associated support buildings, roads, borrow areas, and ponds occupy approximately 188.7 of the 487.7 acres. The site has seven major structures including:

  • A scale house used to weigh and record incoming waste tonnage,
  • A maintenance facility for maintaining landfill operating equipment, which also includes an equipment truck wash area,
  • A recycling facility, used to recover plastic containers and cardboard dropped at the facility by residential and commercial customers,
  • A grounds maintenance building that is used to house and maintain mowing and ground keeping equipment, and
  • The main office.
  • Power plant.
  • Leachate Loadout building.

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Upcoming Events:

Household Hazardous Waste Day – April 24, 2010

Openhouse – August 6, 2010

Noteworthy Facts:

Waste Management's renewable energy projects create enough energy to power over 1 million homes.

Waste Management recycles enough paper every year to save 41 million trees.

WM landfills provide over 21,000 acres of protected land for wildlife and 49 WM Landfills are certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council.

Waste Management helps reduce green house gases equivalent to taking more than 21,000 cars off the road each year by recycling more than 57,000 tons of steel cans.

By recycling more than 232,000 tons of plastics, Waste Management saves enough energy to power almost 116,000 houses for one year.
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