Waste Treatment and Disposal Business Guide
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All 20 Documented Cases
Unanticipated Long-Term Maintenance of Waste Containment Systems
$Hundreds of thousands annually per sitePost-closure requires continuous maintenance of liners, covers, leachate collection, and gas systems, but leachate generation persists beyond 30 years due to cover erosion and liner failures. Facilities face recurring repair costs for erosion gullies, vegetation re-seeding, and system integrity checks. EPA guidance highlights systemic uncertainty in waste degradation leading to perpetual expenses.
Failure to Properly Fund and Execute Mandatory Post-Closure Monitoring
$Millions per facility over 30+ years (e.g., dedicated trusts required at cents-per-ton scale)Owners and operators of hazardous waste landfills and impoundments must conduct 30-year (or longer) post-closure monitoring of groundwater, leachate, and containment systems, but inadequate financial assurance leads to regulatory violations, audit failures, and extended oversight. Regulatory authorities can extend periods or impose penalties for non-compliance with monitoring and reporting under RCRA Subtitle C. Systemic underfunding results in recurring certification failures and perpetual state control.
Disconnected Ticketing to Billing Causing Invoice Delays
$Tens of thousands per month in delayed collectionsManual workflows separate operations from billing, slowing ticket-to-invoice conversion and extending accounts receivable cycles. Lack of electronic transfer from scales to billing leads to data re-entry errors and delayed payments from haulers. Automated integrations resolve this, confirming recurring drag in traditional setups.
Scale Operator Errors Leading to Underbilling and Lost Revenue
$Thousands per month (implied by tight margins and high-volume operations)Manual scale ticketing processes result in pricing errors, inaccurate weights, and unapplied surcharges, causing facilities to undercharge for waste disposal services. Without automation, tickets often fail to capture correct tiered pricing or customer-specific rates, leading to systematic revenue shortfalls. Vendors highlight these as common issues resolved by their software, indicating industry-wide prevalence.