Waste Connections receives permission to expand landfill in North Carolina

The Division of Waste Management of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has issued a solid waste permit approving the horizontal and vertical expansion of a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill in Anson County.

The Anson Landfill, located about 45 miles southeast of Charlotte, is owned and operated by Texas-based Waste Connections Inc.

According to the DEQ, the expansion will add approximately 65 acres of disposal area and an additional 70 feet to the maximum landfill height.

The disposal area will increase from 133 acres to nearly 200 acres and its capacity will increase from approximately 21.6 million cubic yards to 41.5 million total cubic yards.

Because the expansion involved a proposed increase of more than 10 percent of its capacity and an expansion to the disposal boundaries, the Anson Landfill project required a new permit, the DEQ says.

“This permit action will not change the landfill property boundaries, waste types, amount received per day or the service area,” it adds.

Waste Connections provides nonhazardous solid waste collection, recycling and landfill disposal services to commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers at the Anson Landfill site in Polkton, North Carolina.

The North Carolina DEQ says it considered input received during the comment period and a public hearing held Oct. 26, 2023, before making a final decision on this permit.