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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has issued an Areawide Air Pollution Action Day for Sunday, July 19th. This is in addition to the ongoing Chicago Air Pollu tion Action Day in effect today July 18th. This alert includes all of Illinois’ Air Quality Index (AQI) forecast sectors, except Metro-East St. Louis. Visit www.AirNow.gov to stay up to date on current conditions. 

Landfill Capacity Report

The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act, enacted in September 1986, established the State's commitment to address solid waste handling, based on a solid waste management hierarchy as follows:

  • volume reduction at the source;
  • recycling and reuse;
  • combustion with energy recovery;
  • combustion for volume reduction; and
  • disposal in landfill facilities.

Under this Act, the Illinois EPA is required to publish an annual report "regarding the projected disposal capacity available for solid waste in sanitary landfills".