Allan Gerlat, News Editor

November 1, 2013

1 Min Read
Los Angeles’ Puente Hills Landfill Closes

The Los Angeles-area Puente Hills Landfill, one of the largest landfills in the United States, closed at the end of October.

The facility, owned and operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, did business for 56 years before it stopped accepting waste Oct. 31, the county said in a news release. It will take 12 to 18 months to close the landfill, including the final cover and other closure work.

After closure, filled areas of the landfill will be available to the county Department of Parks and Recreation for the development of a park.

“The closure ends an era of cost effective and environmentally sound landfilling operations at the facility, which has been a model for landfills across the country,” stated Grace Robinson Chan, sanitation districts chief engineer and general manager.

The sanitation district operates five other facilities to meet the area’s waste management needs.

The Puente Hills Landfill has employed numerous approaches to waste management, including electricity from the landfill gas, operating a material recovery facility (MRF) and recycling programs.

About the Author(s)

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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