Solid Waste Market Intelligence, Analysis, and StrategyWaste Individual State Trends: Gate Rates – Tipping Fees
Description: These consulting reports provide the state statistics on construction & demolition waste gate rate or tipping fee at solid waste landfills. When sufficient numbers of solid waste landfills exist in the state, average and median state are provided for large, medium, and small solid waste landfills.
Background: For over two decades, Chartwell Information Publishers has surveyed construction & demolition waste landfills for their gate rate (also known as tipping fees). In the early days of the Chartwell Solid Waste Digest, there was typically a chart illustrating that month’s change in the national average gate rate for solid waste disposal. How it was presented left some clients with the impression that landfills were making monthly changes to their gate rates. In reality, the monthly change in the average was because more gate rate surveys had been completed for that year. To avoid causing this misunderstanding, the Chartwell Solid Waste Digest now issues a single annual average gate for construction & demolition waste disposal at landfills in the United States.The Chartwell national average gate rate has become a benchmark for overall nationwide pricing trends in the United States. Properly qualified and used, such benchmarks can be useful. However, examination of Chartwell survey result from 2001 through 2009 found that Chartwell national average gate rate, as well as changes in the national average gate rate, was often very different than in state markets. Further, the within state markets, there exists frequently significant differences in municipal gate rates and the rate of change in overall state average gate rates.
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Scope of State Reports: In these report, Chartwell provides the gate rates trends for the period of 2000 to 2009. Each report contains graphs illustrating gate rate/tipping fees trends as follows:-
overall state average for all landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
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overall state median for all landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
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state average for large landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
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state median for large landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
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state average for median landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
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state median for median landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
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state average for small landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
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state median for small landfill’s gate rate/tipping fee for 2001 – 2009
Reports Purpose: These briefing are for executives and stakeholders in the commercial municipal waste management sector. The purpose is to provide accurate, reliable intelligence to aid their decision-making and to provide an independent, third party analysis of gate rate or tipping fee trends to assist them in making their own decision-making about actions and strategy.
Principal Author: Mr. Cary Perket has over 30 years experience in waste management. Mr. Perket background includes regulatory positions with State of Minnesota and Wisconsin waste programs, consultant to manufacturers on waste management, management of remediation projects, and the permitting of waste management facilities. In recent years, Mr. Perket has supervised the ongoing Chartwell survey of construction & demolition waste facilities and analysis of gate rates/tipping fees changes in the United States.
Conditions of Purchase: This report is sold for the exclusive use of the purchaser’s employees. The purchaser is prohibited from distributing or other providing the report or any portion of the report to third parties. The Envirobiz Group retains full ownership of the copyright and the reports data.
Report: Each report is provided as a PDF file covering any individual state. Each state report may be purchased separately for $250. The entire series of 50 consulting state reports on construction and demolition wastes may be purchased for $5000. For further information on this report, contact:customerservice@envirobiz.com or call 952-831-2473
About Chartwell and The Envirobiz Group: The Envirobiz Group is a professional services firm that collects and analyzes market intelligence. The EI Digest is a service offered by The Envirobiz Group. The EI Digest reports started in 1989; the first EI Digest report on commercial hazardous waste incinerators was provided in 1990.
Chartwell Information Publishers was a small publisher located in Alexandria, Virginia. One of its primary products was a newsletter, the Chartwell Solid Waste Digest. In the early 1990s, Chartwell operations were acquired by Environmental Business International. Due to continuing decline in sales, the Chartwell Solid Waste Digest, along with other rights were acquired by The Envirobiz Group in 2006.
The Chartwell Solid Waste Digest published monthly results of surveys of the gate rates and tipping fees. These reports are based in part on the historic gate rates collected by Chartwell Information Publishers.
More background: Illustrated in Figure 1 are the national average gate rates from 2001 through 2009. The national average is calculated from all the landfill gate rates surveyed. The 2009 national average landfill gate rate increased to $43 per ton. The $43 per ton average represents an increase of about $1 per ton or about 2% increase since 2008. The national average gate rate for construction & demolition waste has been increasing at a rate of slightly more than $1 per ton per year during the last decade as illustrated by the linear trend line in Figure 1.
Since 2001, the variation in the individual landfill gate rates across the country has increased. Some landfills, including some of those with the lowest gate rates, have changed very little. In contrast, some landfills, including some of those with already the high gate rates back in 2001, have had major gate rate increases since 2001. So the range of gate rates across the United States, from lowest to highest, has been increasing. Because the range in gate rates is increasing, Chartwell initiated also using a national median gate rate.
The 2009 median national gate rate is $38 per ton. In other words 50% of the landfills have a gate rate less than $38 per ton, another 50% have a gate rate higher than $38 per ton. The median national gate rate has increased $7 per ton from 2001 through 2009; as previously stated the nation average increased by $9 per ton over that same period. The overall $7 change in the 2001 national median gate rate ($31/ton) represents about 23% increase since 2001; the $9 change in the 2001 national average gate rate ($34/ton) represents about a 24% change over 8 years.
The difference between the national average gate rate ($43 per ton) and the national median gate rate ($38) per ton is indicative of the range of gate rates across the United States. Figure 3 illustrates of the wide range in landfill gate rates that exists both on an interstate basis as well as within state market. In Figure 3, the range in 2009 state median gate rates is illustrated by median gate rates plotted along on the x axis; a difference of about $80 per ton range exists between states with the lowest and highest state median gate rate. As stated previously, national median state rate is $38 per ton, so the range of about $80 per ton from lowest to highest state median gate rate is over 200% greater of national median state gate rate.
In Figure 3, the range between the maximum (highest) and minimum (lowest) landfill gate rates within each state in 2009 is plotted on the y-axis for the same state’s 2009 median gate rate. As illustrated, the difference between maximum to minimum gate rates at individual landfill gate rates varies from state to state. Further, the magnitude of the ranges has a scattered pattern (no apparent trend) relative to the various state median gate rates.
If all the states gate rate trends were acting in unison, there would be an obvious trend in Figure 4. For example, if they were following the percentage change in national median gate rate in Figure 2, the $/ton change in Figure 4 would be uniformly about 24% of the 2001 state median gate rate. Clearly this is not the situation.
These statewide results were expected since Chartwell has been documenting the existence of a wide range of different construction & demolition waste gate rates across the country for more than a decade. However, the state wide results suggested the existence of situations within states where even statewide trends were not representative and further examination confirmed that to be the true.