Carleton Farms Landfill
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The Carleton Farms Landfill is located in Sumpter Township of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
The landfill sits on 664 acres (2.69 km2) of property and has a solid waste boundary of 388 acres (1.57 km2). It is owned by Republic Services Inc., and is about 30 miles (48 km) west of Detroit. As of September, 2005, one million tons of waste is shipped from Toronto to the Carleton Farms Landfill annually after 2002.[1] The site no longer take's Toronto's trash and now accounts for about 10% of Michigan's total waste.
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- Landfills in the United States
- Green Lane landfill - successor site to Carleton Farms for the City of Toronto
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Coordinates: 42°05′37″N 83°25′39″W / 42.093637°N 83.427472°W
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