Solid Waste Management

Links to the Wisconsin Administrative Codes pertaining to Solid Waste.

The following links all exit the Wisconsin DNR site.

• Chapter 103 - Water Quality Standards for Wetlands
• Chapter 140 - Groundwater quality
• Chapter 141 - Groundwater monitoring well requirements
• Chapter 149 - Laboratory certification and registration
• Chapter 500 - General solid waste management requirements
• Chapter 502 - Solid waste storage, transportation, transfer, incineration, air curtain destructors, processing, wood burning, composting and municipal solid waste combustors
• Chapter 503 - One time disposal landfills, small size construction and demolition waste landfills, and intermediate size construction and demolition waste landfills
• Chapter 504 - Landfill location, performance, design and construction criteria
• Chapter 506 - Landfill operational criteria
• Chapter 507 - Environmental monitoring for landfills
• Chapter 508 - Responses when a groundwater standard is attained or exceeded
• Chapter 509 - Initial site reports for landfills
• Chapter 510 - Pre-feasibility reports for landfills
• Chapter 512 - Feasibility reports for landfills
• Chapter 514 - Plan of operation and closure plans for landfills
• Chapter 516 - Landfill construction documentation
• Chapter 518 - Land spreading of solid waste
• Chapter 520 - Solid waste management fees and financial responsibility requirements
• Chapter 524 - Training and certification requirements for solid waste disposal facility operators
• Chapter 526 - Medical waste management
• Chapter 536 - Dump closure cost sharing grant program
• Chapter 538 - Beneficial use of industrial byproducts
• Chapter 157 - Management of PCBs and products containing PCBs

The Wisconsin State Statutes pertaining to Solid Waste

• Chapter 289