World's biggest dump sites by daily volume 2022

Published by Ian Tiseo, Feb 6, 2023
Thousands of tons of waste are sent to the world's largest landfills every day. The Sudokwon landfill site in South Korea receives up to 20,000 tons of waste per day, which is more than any other landfill site worldwide. The Apex Regional landfill site in Las Vegas is the largest landfill site in world by area, and every day more than 10,000 tons of waste is dumped there.

Daily volume of waste dumped at the largest landfills worldwide as of 2022 (in tons)

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July 2022

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2022

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*Sudokwon Landfill - 18,000-20,000 tons per day; Laogang Landfill - 6,000-10,000 tons per day; Xingfeng Landfill - 6,000-8,000 tons per day; Mumbai Landfills - 4,000-7,000 tons per day.
**Bordo Poniente was closed in December 2011. Puente Hills was closed in October 2013.

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