{"generated_at":"2026-10-10T21:21:23Z","units":"U.S. short tons per year (as reported; no conversions)","waste_types":{"msw":"Municipal solid waste: residential, commercial and institutional trash (Michigan: \"municipal and commercial waste\")","cd":"Construction and demolition debris","other":"Everything else a report lists: industrial waste, alternate daily cover, and other categories"},"definitions":{"exported":"Waste that leaves the state where it was collected (or, for Northeast data, the state of the transfer station that shipped it) for disposal in another state.","imported":"Waste received for disposal by landfills or waste-to-energy plants in a state from another state or country.","net":"Imports minus exports for one state and year. Computed only where the same source reports both directions for that state; otherwise the site shows the two known parts separately.","out_of_district":"Waste disposed of outside the planning area (county or district) that generated it. Shown for Michigan counties: tons generated in a county and disposed of at a landfill in another county.","data_year":"The period a report covers: Michigan reports fiscal years ending September 30; the Northeast data are calendar years. The \"latest\" view mixes years and labels each flow with its own."},"sources":[{"id":"mi-egle-fy2025","state":"MI","kind":"state_report","fiscal_year":2025,"period":"FY2025 (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025)","title":"Report of Solid Waste Landfilled in Michigan, FY2025","publisher":"Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)","url":"https://www.michigan.gov/egle/-/media/Project/Websites/egle/Documents/Legislative/MMD/Part-115/Report-FY25-Landfilled-Solid-Waste.pdf?rev=3f1b35b6d7b745a58d5584698068a971","units":"short tons","license":"Public record of the State of Michigan"},{"id":"mi-egle-fy2024","state":"MI","kind":"state_report","fiscal_year":2024,"period":"FY2024 (Oct 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2024)","title":"Report of Solid Waste Landfilled in Michigan, FY2024","publisher":"Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)","url":"https://www.michigan.gov/egle/-/media/Project/Websites/egle/Documents/Legislative/MMD/Part-115/Report-FY24-Landfilled-Solid-Waste.pdf?rev=b1a8a575d427406f8a4ad4fb4de0ff47","units":"short tons","license":"Public record of the State of Michigan"},{"id":"mi-egle-fy2023","state":"MI","kind":"state_report","fiscal_year":2023,"period":"FY2023 (Oct 1, 2022 to Sep 30, 2023)","title":"Report of Solid Waste Landfilled in Michigan, FY2023","publisher":"Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)","url":"https://www.michigan.gov/egle/-/media/Project/Websites/egle/Documents/Legislative/MMD/Part-115/Report-FY23-Landfilled-Solid-Waste.pdf?rev=02e698ebd3c04faf88e108acadf3b2d4","units":"short tons","license":"Public record of the State of Michigan"},{"id":"newmoa-msw-2022","states":["CT","ME","MA","NH","NJ","NY","RI","VT"],"kind":"regional_report","year":2022,"period":"Calendar year 2022","title":"Presentation on Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Interstate Flow in the Northeast in 2022 (August 1, 2025)","publisher":"Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA) Solid Waste Metrics Workgroup, compiled from the eight member state agencies","url":"https://www.newmoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MSW2022DataReportFinal.pdf","units":"short tons","license":"Published report of an interstate association of state agencies"},{"id":"epa-lmop-2024-09","kind":"facility_inventory","period":"Landfill-reported acceptance year (mostly 2022 and 2023)","title":"LMOP Landfill and Project Database, landfill-level data (September 2024)","publisher":"U.S. EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program","url":"https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-09/landfilllmopdata.xlsx","units":"short tons per year","license":"U.S. government work (public domain)"},{"id":"eia-923-2025","kind":"facility_inventory","year":2025,"period":"Calendar year 2025 (final data)","title":"Form EIA-923 Power Plant Operations Report, 2025 final data (fuel consumption, Schedules 2-5)","publisher":"U.S. Energy Information Administration","url":"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/xls/f923_2025.zip","units":"short tons of municipal solid waste burned","license":"U.S. government work (public domain)"},{"id":"eia-860-2025","kind":"facility_inventory","year":2025,"period":"2025","title":"Form EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report, 2025 (Schedule 2, plant data: locations)","publisher":"U.S. Energy Information Administration","url":"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/xls/eia8602025.zip","units":"n/a","license":"U.S. government work (public domain)"},{"id":"census-us-atlas","kind":"boundaries","period":"2017 boundaries","title":"us-atlas 3.0.1 (U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files, 1:10,000,000, states and counties)","publisher":"U.S. Census Bureau, packaged by the us-atlas project","url":"https://github.com/topojson/us-atlas","units":"n/a","license":"Census data public domain; us-atlas ISC license"}],"reporting_states":{"MI":{"name":"Michigan","sources":["mi-egle-fy2025","mi-egle-fy2024","mi-egle-fy2023"],"years":[2023,2024,2025],"directions":["imports"],"types":"all waste types (municipal and commercial, C&D, industrial, other)","county_detail":[2024,2025],"note":"Michigan reports waste received by its landfills by origin; it does not report exports."},"CT":{"name":"Connecticut","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."},"ME":{"name":"Maine","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."},"MA":{"name":"Massachusetts","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."},"NH":{"name":"New Hampshire","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."},"NJ":{"name":"New Jersey","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."},"NY":{"name":"New York","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."},"RI":{"name":"Rhode Island","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."},"VT":{"name":"Vermont","sources":["newmoa-msw-2022"],"years":[2022],"directions":["imports","exports"],"types":"MSW only","county_detail":[],"note":"Reported through the NEWMOA regional MSW flow presentation."}},"notes":[{"topic":"facilities","text":"Landfills: 1260 open landfills with coordinates in EPA LMOP (September 2024); 1189 report an annual acceptance rate. LMOP covers municipal solid waste landfills that participate in or are tracked by the program, not every disposal site."},{"topic":"facilities","text":"Waste-to-energy: 56 power plants that reported burning municipal solid waste on Form EIA-923 for 2025, with tons burned (biogenic and non-biogenic MSW combined)."},{"topic":"facilities","text":"Transfer stations: no national public inventory with tonnage was found; transfer stations are not shown yet."},{"topic":"MI","year":2023,"text":"FY2023: Table 1 lists 4,519,465.54 tons from outside Michigan; Table 11 sums to 4,519,425; the Appendix D landfill listings sum to 4,519,425.54 imported and 25,649,129.54 in total (Table 1 total 22,892,992.06). Import flows use Appendix D. County and landfill detail is not published for this year because Appendix D does not reconcile with Table 1 within 2 percent."},{"topic":"MI","year":2024,"text":"FY2024: Table 1 lists 4,467,253.17 tons from outside Michigan; Table 11 sums to 4,534,789.53; the Appendix D landfill listings sum to 4,467,253.17 imported and 23,783,160.59 in total (Table 1 total 24,136,619.52). Import flows use Appendix D. County and landfill detail is published for this year."},{"topic":"MI","year":2025,"text":"FY2025: Table 1 lists 4,072,915.43 tons from outside Michigan; Table 11 sums to 4,072,915.43; the Appendix D landfill listings sum to 4,072,915.43 imported and 22,603,565.92 in total (Table 1 total 22,603,565.92). Import flows use Appendix D. County and landfill detail is published for this year."},{"topic":"NEWMOA","year":2022,"text":"Northeast values are MSW only (no C&D or industrial waste), calendar 2022, from the NEWMOA presentation. State-to-state values within the region were read from the figures' data tables and reconcile exactly with Figure 1. Destinations outside the region are the rounded or approximate figures named in the report text; they come from different reporters and need not add up to the out-of-region export total."}],"michigan_trend":[{"year":2021,"michigan":19813375.07,"canada":3164628.81,"other_states":1363503.2,"total":24341507.08,"src":"mi-egle-fy2025"},{"year":2022,"michigan":20256147.89,"canada":3428211,"other_states":1395741.44,"total":25080100.33,"src":"mi-egle-fy2025"},{"year":2023,"michigan":19363965.66,"canada":3406337.38,"other_states":1002543.64,"total":23772846.68,"src":"mi-egle-fy2025"},{"year":2024,"michigan":19669366.35,"canada":3464704.53,"other_states":1002548.64,"total":24136619.52,"src":"mi-egle-fy2025"},{"year":2025,"michigan":18530650.49,"canada":3189313.19,"other_states":883602.24,"total":22603565.92,"src":"mi-egle-fy2025"}]}