The online Chartwell Municipal Solid Waste Directory’s focuses on facilities that manage municipal solid waste in the United States.  The basis for inclusion is that the facility purpose is assisting with the management of municipal solid waste and/or a specific constituent in municipal solid waste. The directory includes both government and privately owned municipal solid waste facilities. The diverse scope of facilities includes are incinerators, landfills, recycling plants, transfer stations, waste to energy (WTE) facilities, waste processing and other similar facilities. Many of these facilities also accept other types of waste such construction and demolition wastes, contaminated soil, industrial wastes, scrap tires, e-waste, etc.

The number of facilities in the Chartwell Municipal Solid Waste Directory will change from time to time as new facilities are added to the directory and closed facilities are removed.  Correspondingly, the information on individual facilities in the Chartwell Solid Waste Directory will also periodically change to reflect information obtained from our ongoing survey efforts.  Consequently, unlike the past printed Chartwell Solid Waste Atlas & Directory that only reflect facilities at the time of printing, the Chartwell Solid Waste Directory is a dynamic references source.

The Chartwell Municipal Solid Waste Directory is simple to use; with the possible exception of the most novice internet users, minimal time is needed to get staff using the search function of this business tool.  The search results are organized so that it is easy to scroll through the search results. The information on each facility is provided in an easy to understand standard layout. The demonstration below illustrates how a user can easily and quickly access specific information on a facility.

As demonstrated above, the Chartwell Municipal Solid Waste Directory provides customers with the ability to quickly identify facilities matching their criteria and provides basic information about those facilities. The Envirobiz Group Inc. utilizes this same facility data on an ongoing basis for its various research surveys; consequently most of contact information (e.g. telephone numbers) has been updated if changed within the last twelve months.

Many of the municipal solid waste facilities in the Chartwell Municipal Solid Waste Directory accept construction and demolition (C&D) wastes; hence there is significant amount of overlap in coverage between the Chartwell Municipal Solid Waste Directory and the Chartwell Construction & Demolition Waste Directory. However, the Chartwell Construction and Demolition Waste Directory includes a unique universe of landfills, recycling facilities, transfer stations and other facilities that accept only demolition and construction wastes. 

Increasingly, various types of discards are being diverted from the municipal solid waste management facilities. Among the types of waste being diverted are hazardous wastes, certain types of industrial wastes, and universal wastes. The EI Hazardous, Industrial, and Universal Waste Directory focus is specialized facilities that specialize in management of these types of wastes. Municipal Solid Waste management facilities are only included in the EI Hazardous, Industrial, and Universal Directory if they accept one or more of these types of wastes.