State Solid Waste Tipping Fees Overview (DNR – Air, Waste, and Contaminated Land)

Solid and hazardous waste disposal facilities (landfills) pay state tipping fees for each ton of solid waste disposed of in the landfill. The main state tipping fees provide revenues to the segregated recycling and renewable energy fund, environmental management account, and nonpoint account. Current state tipping fees total $5.897 per ton for most waste effective November 1, 2007. Prior to that date, state tipping fees totaled $3.797 per ton. Wastes subject to these tipping fees include municipal solid waste, commercial, construction and demolition, and industrial waste that is not high-volume.

High-volume industrial wastes are subject to lower tipping fees than other waste, totaling $0.497 per ton. High-volume industrial waste includes paper mill sludge, bottom ash, foundry process waste and fly ash. Certain wastes are exempt from the state fees, including materials used for lining, daily cover, capping or constructing berms, dikes or roads within the landfill. Certain paper company and PCB contaminated sediment dredgings are exempt from the recycling fee, but are subject to the environmental management and nonpoint fees.