Contact Details
- Address: 6030 California Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84104
- GPS: 40.740748137387,-112.03525795344
- Phone: (801) 674-6920, (385) 468-6370
- Email: landfill@slco.org
- Mobile Phone: (801) 674-6920, (385) 468-6370
- Website: https://slco.org/landfill/
Opening Times
- Monday 7am-5pm
- Tuesday 7am-5pm
- Wednesday 7am-5pm
- Thursday 7am-5pm
- Friday 7am-5pm
- Saturday 7am-5pm
- Sunday closed
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The Salt Lake Valley Transfer Station is located on 6030 California Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84104. This landfill is opened on the following hours:
- Monday: 7am-5pm
- Tuesday: 7am-5pm
- Wednesday: 7am-5pm
- Thursday: 7am-5pm
- Friday: 7am-5pm
- Saturday: 7am-5pm
- 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 Salt Lake landfill Utah 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 (801) 674-6920.
You may contact the Salt Lake city 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 Salt Lake Valley Transfer Station about their opening hours to the public and what is the visitor policy. They would gladly answer your questions.
Landfill Pricing is determined by the size of the load and the type of material in the load. Small vehicles, pickups, and trailers, as specified below, are charged a flat fee by the load. Trucks (Non-Pickup and 1-Ton Pickup with a trailer) and Mechanized Unload Trailers. Minimum $16/Load Charge (plus applicable fees). $32 Per Ton – Mixed Trash; $22 Per Ton – Green Waste/Trees; $12 Per Ton – Concrete or Asphalt broken up; $12 Per Ton – Soil or Sod; Any Green Waste, Concrete or Asphalt, and Soil or Sod loads that contain any material not specified above, will be charged the Mixed Trash rate ($32 Per Ton).
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Popular questions at SLC landfill
A landfill is a location that manages our waste. In some landfills the garbage is left in piles, in some the garbage is incinerated and, in some others, the waste is decomposed onto other chemical structures and processed. In some landfills, the waste is buried.
Landfills are in specific areas, and they are away from cities and counties as there are gases that leak from the decomposition of the waste. There are various types of landfills. Some are used for municipal waste, some are used for sorting of the waste, some serve as transfer stations, and some are specialized only for recycling. Each landfill has its acceptance conditions, which means only a specific type of waste can be accepted.
When a load of waste is accepted, the garbage trucks go to the dumping point and offload the materials. During the processing of the waste, the main ideas are to confine the waste in the smallest space possible and to reduce the volume of the waste by compacting it. The garbage trucks are weighed when they enter and exit the landfill. The difference is the tons of garbage deposited and that affects the cost to use the landfill. Each landfill has its prices per ton depending on the type of waste that is deposited.
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 one detail to clear out. Landfills and dumps sound the same but are not. A landfill is engineered to maximally reduce the effect on the environment of the waste. The advantages of landfills over dumps are that landfills are managed with more care and landfills can even recycle the waste to produce other compounds or to even produce energy. Dumps are almost nonexistent today as they do not manage the waste and just leave things in the open.
When waste arrives in a landfill it needs to be sorted out first. Therefore, we have waste sorting stations. These are specialized for municipal waste and not for other types of landfills. Garbage trucks dump their municipal waste. Then the waste is separated into recyclable waste and non-recyclable materials. The non-recyclable garbage is then separated into hazardous waste, energy recyclable waste, landfill waste, or incinerator waste. Afterward that it has been sorted out, it is then loaded onto garbage trucks, and this deposits the waste onto their designated places.
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.
