Solid Waste

Let the combined resources from Fred Weber, Inc.'s Family of Companies handle all of your waste and disposal needs.

The Fred Weber Sanitary Landfill, the area’s largest with a projected 60 year life and over 50 percent of the region’s remaining disposal capacity, provides the St. Louis metropolitan area with the knowledge that safe and environmentally secure disposal is being provided for non-hazardous solid waste. Facility operations efficiently handle about 400 trucks and ± 3,000 tons of solid waste each day.

State of the art environmental controls include: waste screening inspection and employee training, composite clay/ geosynthetic liner and final cover systems, leachate collection system, landfill gas (LFG) collection system including over 120 LFG collection and monitoring wells, 14 groundwater monitoring wells, stormwater detention and monitoring, and GPS technology for construction grading control. Our environmental managers and landfill operations have received numerous awards for environmental achievement, leadership and innovation.

In addition to our tremendous asphalt and concrete recycling programs, we also operate one of the region’s largest composting facilities recycling yard waste and tree trimmings. The decomposition of the landfilled solid waste provides an additional recycling program for us by using methane rich LFG in unique applications reducing the drain on the limited reserves of natural gas. LFG fuels the combustion needed to heat liquid asphalt and dry aggregate in making our asphalt. The Pattonville High School heating system runs on LFG from our landfill. Other nearby users include Jaeger Greenhouse and Breckenridge Concrete.

We have recently modernized and upgraded the LFG management system with a centralized blower and distribution complex. Flow instrumentation and gas chromatography continuously monitor the LFG quantity and quality. The LFG complex also includes a dehydration unit that removes moisture from LFG to produce a dry gas and is the anchor to the next phase of recycling even more LFG. We will soon invest in technologies to capture non-combustible carbon dioxide from the LFG to improve the energy content. And further on, we look forward to the likelihood of producing green energy with an LFG to electric plant powered by reciprocating engines and turbines.