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Tipping through Time

Published Friday, November 01, 2002

In 1982, the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), Washington, D.C., began collecting tipping (disposal) fee data for landfills and incinerators and continued this process until 1995. NSWMA data were collected by contacting individual facilities. Then in 1992, Chartwell Information Publishers, San Diego, began collecting similar data, which the NSWMA uses today. The following tipping fee data are from approximately 630 privately owned or operated facilities and represent the “spot market” price for municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal. Other tipping fees exist at MSW landfills (e.g., waste accepted under a long-term contract, special wastes), and these fees may ...

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