As of 2023, the Apex Regional Landfill located near Las Vegas, Nevada, was the largest landfill in the United States in terms of design capacity, with a capacity of nearly one billion tons of waste. The Apex Regional disposal site has more than double the capacity of the ECDC Environmental Landfill in Utah, which was the second-largest landfill in terms of design capacity that year.
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Environmental Protection Agency. (October 31, 2023). Largest municipal solid waste landfills in the United States in 2023, by design capacity (in million tons) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360264/us-largest-landfills-by-capacity/
Environmental Protection Agency. "Largest municipal solid waste landfills in the United States in 2023, by design capacity (in million tons) ." Chart. October 31, 2023. Statista. Accessed July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360264/us-largest-landfills-by-capacity/
Environmental Protection Agency. (2023). Largest municipal solid waste landfills in the United States in 2023, by design capacity (in million tons) . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360264/us-largest-landfills-by-capacity/
Environmental Protection Agency. "Largest Municipal Solid Waste Landfills in The United States in 2023, by Design Capacity (in Million Tons) ." Statista, Statista Inc., 31 Oct 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360264/us-largest-landfills-by-capacity/
Environmental Protection Agency, Largest municipal solid waste landfills in the United States in 2023, by design capacity (in million tons) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360264/us-largest-landfills-by-capacity/ (last visited July 22, 2024)
Largest municipal solid waste landfills in the United States in 2023, by design capacity (in million tons) [Graph], Environmental Protection Agency, October 31, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360264/us-largest-landfills-by-capacity/