Big Sky Environmental’s 1,500-acre landfill has the capacity to accept 25,000 tons of waste every day
Landfill sites
Hazardous waste
Circle size denotes
landfill capacity
Stone’s
Throw
landfill
Traditional
‘Black belt’
counties
Arrowhead landfill
accepts up to 15,000 tons of waste per day, from 33 states
Huntsville
Birmingham
Anniston
Parrish
West Jefferson
Tuscaloosa
Emelle
Selma
Columbus
Montgomery
Dothan
Black population
Mobile
<20%
>80%
Uniontown
90% of the population is black and half of the town lives below the poverty line
Alabama has become a dumping ground for the country as waste from all over the US ends up in it’s landfill sites
Huntsville
Big Sky Environmental’s 1,500-acre landfill has the capacity to accept 25,000 tons of waste every day
Arrowhead landfill
accepts up to 15,000 tons of waste per day, from 33 states
Circle size
denotes landfill
capacity
Birmingham
Anniston
Parrish
West Jefferson
Stone’s
Throw
landfill
Tuscaloosa
Emelle
Selma
Uniontown
90% of the population is black and half of the town lives below the poverty line
Montgomery
Traditional
‘Black belt’
counties
Dothan
Mobile
Landfill sites
Black population
Hazardous waste
<20%
>80%