Contact Details
- Address: 8290 Highway 251 South, Davis Junction, IL 61020
- GPS: 42.1399544,-89.0817944
- Phone: (815) 874-9000
- Email: Bruce.Knapp@AdvancedDisposal.com
- Mobile Phone: (815) 874-9000
- Website: http://www.advanceddisposal.com/
Opening Times
- Monday 6am-4pm
- Tuesday 6am-4pm
- Wednesday 6am-4pm
- Thursday 6am-4pm
- Friday 6am-4pm
- Saturday 6am-11am
- Sunday closed
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The Orchard Hills Landfill is located on 8290 Highway 251 South, Davis Junction, IL 61020. This landfill is opened on the following hours:
- Monday: 6am-4pm
- Tuesday: 6am-4pm
- Wednesday: 6am-4pm
- Thursday: 6am-4pm
- Friday: 6am-4pm
- Saturday: 6am-11am
- 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 Orchard Hills Landfill Illinois 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 (815) 874-9000.
You may contact the Orchard Hills Landfill 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 Orchard Hills Landfill 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 Orchard Hills Landfill
The schedule of each landfill differs and they different hours of operation. To find the opening hours regarding a specific landfill, you use the above site. After you have located the desired landfill to use, the operating hours can be seen on current page of site after clicking into the “Opening hours” section. There you will be able to locate the opening hours and any other facts about the business services of the landfill.
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.
The first step onto the waste stations is to weigh the incoming garbage trucks. These sites are also open to the public and they help the community. The work of waste sorting stations is very important, and it helps to optimize the process of waste management. Transfer stations pre-compact the waste thus it is easier for the bulldozers to manage the waste at the sanitary landfills.
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.
Sanitary landfills offer a more advanced waste management approach that further reduces the chances of environmental contamination. The basic unit of a sanitary landfill is still the cell. The idea is to create soil tranches. The garbage is deposited onto layers 1 to 3 meters high and then compacted by bulldozers to reduce the volume. Then the garbage is covered by a layer of dirt. Multiple of these layers are piled together until they reach maximum capacity and thus, we form a cell. The cell is then reinforced on all sides to prevent leakage to the soil.
