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Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management Plan Update (December 2018) Chapter 4: Waste Management <br />Figure 4-1: 2016 Waste Management Methods <br />............... ­_­­.­­­­ ....... ....... ........ .......... <br />Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District <br />Total Waste Generation <br />2016= 2 :6841645 ton. <br />Composted <br />6% <br />B. Profile of Waste Management Infrastructure Including Reference Year Facilities <br />Cuyahoga County benefits from an ample solid waste management infrastructure that provides <br />many opportunities to manage waste cost-effectively and efficiently including many <br />opportunities to recycle and compost. The following describes this infrastructure., the <br />facilities used and their role in the overall solid waste management system. <br />1. Facilities Used in the Reference Year <br />a. Landfill Facilities <br />Landfills are the last stop for any waste that is not diverted through waste reduction, recycling <br />and composting. While Cuyahoga County's communities and businesses are effective at <br />recycling, landfills still manage approximately one- half of all its waste — over 1.2 million tons <br />annually. All this waste must be exported to other counties in Ohio for disposal because no <br />operating solid waste landfills remain in Cuyahoga County. <br />In 2016, waste was exported to eleven landfills located in nine other Ohio counties for disposal. <br />These landfills are identified in Figure 4-2. <br />4-2 <br />033 <br />