Review and Update of the Facility Master Plan Central Landfill
Geosyntec was retained by Cecil County, Maryland to provide guidance on updating the county's existing Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP), which called for future development of alternative solid waste management facilities and recycling as well as increasing disposal capacity at their Central Landfill. The county needed to comprehensively update their SWMP and assess several hard-to-predict factors potentially affecting long-term development of their solid waste assets, including demographics (e.g., quantities and types of waste generated in the facility's wasteshed), economics (e.g., markets for recyclables and renewable energy), and policy (e.g., mandates for recycling and diversion of organics) to meet the State of Maryland's proposed Zero Waste objectives of phasing out disposal of "unprocessed" solid waste to landfill and increasing overall recycling rates to 85%.
