Mill Seat Landfill is owned by Monroe County and operated by Waste Management of New York, LLC. The facility is located on the western edge of Monroe County in the Town of Riga. Mill Seat Landfill was permitted in 1991 and began operation in 1993. In 2002, Monroe County partnered with Waste Management to operate the site. Waste Management is proud to partner with the towns of Riga and Bergen, the villages of Churchville and Bergen, as well as Monroe County.
Notable is how much of this landfill is surrounded by regulated wetlands, as shown in green and yellow on this map.
LEFT - Circa 1995, a few years after opening
RIGHT - Circa 2020, a contemporary aerial photo
Nearby the state's population centers in upstate, there are several composting facilities for food waste, mostly from institutional generators like cafeterias and prisons. This year's state budget, contained language requiring food waste composting for large generators of waste, where facilities exist nearby.
Data Source: Composting - Solid Waste Management Facilities Map. https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Composting-Solid-Waste-Management-Facilities-Map/y4ic-kfv6
Probably everybody should recycle.
This picture is inside a burning barrel from a farm not too far from where I live. While these people are truly nice people, as you can see they don't recycle. But can you blame them?
By burning they are reducing their waste down to almost nothing. And it's a pain to store and haul all these consumeristic extras to the landfill every couple of weeks.
Taken on Wednesday December 27, 2006 at Trash.
