The Environmental Research & Educa-tion Foundation (EREF) released its 7th annual Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfill tip fee report, an essential part of its data-driven efforts toward sustainable materials management. The 2022 report incorporates data from 348 MSW landfills spread across all 50 states.
This comprehensive analysis shows a nationwide surge in tip fees, with an 8 percent rise in the national unweighted average tip fee, growing to $58.47 per ton from $54.03 in the previous year. However, the Southeast region presented an excep-tion with a nominal two percent increase in tip fees. Geographically, while the Pacific and Northeast regions have sustained their positions as areas with the highest fees per ton, the Midwest and South-Central regions reported the most substantial percentage increases, 22 and 29 percent, respectively. These two regions also showed the greatest year-on-year growth since EREF’s incep-tion of this research in 2016.