Waste Management & Recycling

Landfills, transfer stations, and recycling facilities carry ongoing environmental management obligations that don’t end when a site stops accepting new material — leachate, landfill gas, and soil or groundwater impacts all require sustained corrective action. ERC provides that ongoing environmental support alongside project-based remediation for waste management and recycling clients.

Our self-performing crews manage landfill corrective action, contaminated soil and groundwater remediation, and waste handling logistics directly, giving waste management operators one contractor for both routine facility environmental management and larger remediation projects.

Environmental Challenges in Waste Management Operations

Active and closed landfills generate leachate and gas that require ongoing management — capping systems, collection infrastructure, and monitoring don’t stop once a landfill is no longer accepting waste. Deferred maintenance on this infrastructure tends to compound into a larger, more expensive corrective action project.

Transfer stations and recycling facilities also carry soil and groundwater contamination risk from decades of material handling, spills, and runoff, particularly at older facilities that predate current containment standards.

Waste characterization is a constant operational need in this sector — incoming and outgoing material streams often require profiling and documentation before they can be legally transported or disposed of at a receiving facility.

How ERC Supports Waste Management & Recycling Clients

ERC’s landfill corrective action services manage capping, leachate collection, and gas management infrastructure for active and closed landfill sites.

Confirmed soil or groundwater contamination is addressed through soil remediation and contaminated groundwater treatment, scoped to the facility’s specific site history.

Routine waste handling needs are supported through our drum pickup and waste disposal service, managing characterization and disposal coordination.

If an incident occurs on an active operating site, our 24/7 emergency response team mobilizes to contain and manage the release.

Ongoing Corrective Action, Not Just Project Work

Landfill and legacy waste facility environmental obligations typically run for years after a site stops accepting material. ERC supports clients through that full timeline — from initial capping and collection system installation through the ongoing monitoring and maintenance corrective action requires.

Treating this as an ongoing relationship rather than a single project tends to catch smaller maintenance issues before they become larger, more expensive corrective action needs.

Waste Characterization for Regulatory Compliance

Accurately characterizing waste before it leaves a facility is what protects a waste management operator from liability tied to a receiving facility later determining the material didn’t match its profile. ERC manages this process as a standard part of waste handling projects, coordinating sampling, laboratory analysis, and profile documentation directly.

From ongoing landfill corrective action to project-based remediation and waste characterization, ERC supports waste management and recycling operators as a long-term environmental partner, not a one-time vendor. Contact us to discuss your facility.

We can help with your environmental remediation, ecological restoration, and emergency response needs in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.