The Carleton Farms Landfill is located in Sumpter Township

Sumpter Township, Michigan

Sumpter Township is a general law township of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 9,549.-Geography:...

 of Wayne County

Wayne County, Michigan

-History:Wayne County was one of the first counties formed when the Northwest Territory was organized. It was named for the American general "Mad Anthony" Wayne. It originally encompassed the entire area of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, as well as small sections that are now part of northern...

 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

.

The landfill

Landfill

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 sits on 664 acres (2.7 km²) of property and has a solid waste boundary of 388 acres (1.6 km²). It is owned by Republic Services Inc., and is about 30 miles (48.3 km) west of Detroit

Detroit, Michigan

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. As of September, 2005, one million ton

Ton

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s of waste

Waste

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 is shipped from Toronto

Toronto

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 to the Carleton Farms Landfill annually after 2002.
The site no longer take's Toronto's trash and now accounts for about 10% of Michigan's total waste.

See also

• Landfills in the United States
• Green Lane landfill
  Green Lane landfill
  The Green Lane landfill is a landfill near London, Ontario in Canada. It is owned by the City of Toronto.It operates a leachate collection system and an on-site leachate treatment plant. Green Lane also has an extensive landfill gas collection system. This gas is roughly 50 per cent methane and 50...
  
   - successor site to Carleton Farms for the City of Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
  
  

External links

• Trash Topography at Canadian Architect