General Information:
More than 1.1 million tons of waste are disposed of at the Miramar Landfill
every year. It spans over 1,500 acres and is the City of San Diego's only
active landfill. The Miramar Landfill opened on December 7, 1959 and has since operated
in three areas: north, south and west. The South Miramar Landfill operated
from 1959 to 1973; the North Miramar Landfill operated from 1973 to 1983;
and the West Miramar Landfill, which is still in operation today, opened
in 1983.
The Miramar Landfill is the nation's first municipally operated landfill
to receive ISO 14001 certification, the international
standard for environmental management (see the link below for more details
on this certification). The landfill earned this certification through
the development of an Environmental Management System (EMS), which significantly
increased operational efficiencies, reduced potential negative impacts
on the environment and resulted in cost savings of approximately $2 million
each year!
At this environmentally secure, lined landfill,
the City's refuse is covered on a daily basis in conformance with regulatory
and environmental requirements. Closed areas of the landfill are revegetated
with native plants cultivated in the Landfill Nursery. Even the methane,
a greenhouse gas, produced as a byproduct of the landfill, is captured
and used to provide 90% of the fuel to power electrical generators at
the Metropolitan Biosolids Center and North City Water Reclamation Plant
to total 10MW. In addition, high quality mulch, compost, and wood chips
are made at the Miramar Greenery and are available to the public.
Operations:
Miramar Greenery Recycling (Compost,
Mulch, and Wood Chips available for sale)
Miramar Recycling Center
Household Hazardous Waste Transfer Facility
Last Chance recycling
Bird Control Program
Goodwill Drop-off Center
Other Information:
Location and Hours
Fee Collection at the landfill entrance
Miramar Nursery (native plants) and Volunteer
Opportunities
City of San Diego Franchised Waste Haulers
Deferred Payment Account Services
Hauler Information: Projects that Generate
Waste
Universal Waste
Self-haul flat rate disposal fees
for City of San Diego and Non-City Residents and Businesses.
New fees for all landfill greenery customers.
View the new mulch, compost and woodchip
fees.
The following C&D fees took effect on July 1, 2009:
Reinstated Construction and Demolition (C&D) Surcharge.
View the current Construction
and Demolition fees (PDF: 85K).
The following landfill operation hours took effect on January 1, 2008:
New landfill hours for "Hand-Unloading" Customers.
No vehicles that require hand unloading will
be admitted after 4 p.m.
Regular Landfill Hours
Monday - Friday 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Media:
See
the Traffic Flow at the Fee Booth Area at the Miramar Landfill!
Miramar Landfill:
A full-scale Waste Management & Environmental Effort
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Publications:
Facts:
Approximately 446,000 vehicles each year bring trash to the Miramar
Landfill.
About 1,100-1,200 customers bring materials to the landfill each day.
The landfill is open 361 days a year; rain or shine.
About 3,900 tons of waste are accepted on weekdays and lesser amounts
on weekends.
Customers' vehicles are checked at random for hazardous materials.
Approximately 41,000 pounds of hazardous substances are discovered and
diverted for proper disposal.
San Diego, with a population of over 1.2 million, disposes over 1,718,000
tons of trash per year! At this rate of disposal, the only City-run landfill,
the Miramar Landfill, will likely be filled to capacity and close by 2017.
The City's waste reduction and recycling programs, along with innovative
engineering, have helped extend the landfill's working life, originally
scheduled to close as early as 1995.
All cities in California are required to reduce, reuse, or recycle half
of their waste or be subjected to a $10,000 per day fine. In 2006, the
City of San Diego met this requirement with a 55% diversion rate.
Waste composition studies indicate that two-thirds of San Diego's waste
stream can be recycled.
San Diegans throw away enough recyclables to:
- Energize over 181,000 households for a year;
- Conserve 3,355,937 barrels of oil;
- Fuel over 400 cars for a year (156,610,400 gallons/25 miles per
gallon/15,000 miles/year);
- Risk our city being fined $10,000 per day by the State.
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