Waste & Landfills

Landfilled waste on TerraPulse is organized into the landfilled_waste_composition YearLocationdex — a national study of what is actually buried in U.S. landfills, broken out by year and place, drawn from the EPA’s Office of Research & Development. It records measured composition, not disposal estimates. No forecasts.

The dexes

The record lives in a single YearLocationdex — one study organized by year and location rather than a running count of events:

Provenance

Every entry traces to the EPA Office of Research & Development landfilled-waste-composition study, which characterizes the material actually disposed in U.S. landfills — the paper, food, plastics, metals, and other fractions in the buried stream. The source is registered against the dex, so any record carries a direct line back to the originating study.

What’s in a record

Each entry carries:

• Year — the study reporting year
• Location — the region or facility sampled
• Material fractions — measured share of each waste category
• Method — how the composition was sampled and characterized