Contact Details
- Address: 3925 North Hawthorne Street, Chattanooga, TN 37405
- GPS: 35.0883444,-85.2456241
- Phone: (423) 757-5026
- Mobile Phone: (423) 757-5026
Opening Times
- Monday 8am-4:30pm
- Tuesday 8am-4:30pm
- Wednesday 8am-4:30pm
- Thursday 8am-4:30pm
- Friday 8am-4:30pm
- Saturday 8am-12pm
- Sunday closed
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The North Hawthorne Wood Waste Recycling Facility is located on 3925 North Hawthorne Street, Chattanooga, TN 37405. This landfill is opened on the following hours:
- Monday: 8am-4:30pm
- Tuesday: 8am-4:30pm
- Wednesday: 8am-4:30pm
- Thursday: 8am-4:30pm
- Friday: 8am-4:30pm
- Saturday: 8am-12pm
- Sunday: closed
The landfill is closed on all US federal holidays. The dumps on the landfill are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the applicable state laws.
The North Hawthorne Wood Waste Recycling Facility Tennessee buries trash and garbage below secured and stratified layers of dirt and isolating material. The transfer station accepts tire, solid waste, hazardous waste, and inert material waste. For any other type of waste that you are not SURE ABOUT, you can reach them out at (423) 757-5026.
You may contact the North Hawthorne Wood Waste Recycling Facility about any information regarding: waste managing policies, recycling policies, commercial garbage, accepted types of trash, industrial waste, household garbage, appliances disposal and hazardous waste management.
You can reach the North Hawthorne Wood Waste Recycling Facility about their opening hours to the public and what is the visitor policy. They would gladly answer your questions.
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Popular questions at North Hawthorne Wood Waste Recycling Facility
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There is an interesting type of landfill, inert landfills. This type of landfill receives sand, concrete, and other waste related to construction. This type of waste does not have any biohazards nor decomposes, or it does so very slowly. These types of waste neither produce liquid waste. In this category, we mostly have asphalt, rocks, bricks, yard leaves. In this category, we do not include demolition waste.
Each landfill has a different cost to use its services. The price depends on many factors, such as type of waste ( hazardous, construction and demolition waste, municipal solid waste, and inert waste ), location of the landfill, and the individual charges of the landfill. According to statistics, the USA average price per ton is $53.72. The costs tend to be higher in the Pacific area, where they reach an average of $72.02 per ton of waste. The prices are averagely the cheapest in South Central, where they reach $39.66 per ton. From statistics, we see that the highest populated areas, the Pacific and the northeast are the costliest, while the other areas of the USA tend to have cheaper prices per ton.
Chemical landfills are a variation of sanitary landfills. Chemical landfills are made to secure and hazardous waste. This type of landfill is made on top of a nonporous bedrock. The idea is to create a place that is specialized to reduce the likelihood of hazardous waste reaching the environment. This type of landfill has a pit with a heavily protected bottom that does not allow hazardous materials to reach the soil. These landfills are operated by specialized personnel, and they have strong monitoring systems. To deposit materials in a chemical landfill, it is mandatory to research the local applicable laws and any federal laws that pertain to the type of waste that you intend to dispose of.
There is a lot of waste generated in the USA. In 2018, there were 292 million tons of waste generated. Averagely that is 4.9 Lb. of waste per person. The waste from municipalities is recycled the most. The data says that in 2018, there was a recycling rate of 32%. Some of the waste is reprocessed not other means such as bio-chemical management.The largest categories of waste pertain to paper, food plastics, yard trims, and metals. Food, plastics, and paper make are the main resources for energy production from waste.