Baltimore County announces ‘vertical expansion’ to Eastern Sanitary Landfill

Baltimore County announced Monday a new effort that officials say will extend the life span of the county’s sole publicly owned landfill by as much as 40 years after previous estimates said it would run out of capacity by 2027. The Baltimore County Department of Public Works applied in November with the Maryland Department of the Environment for a permit to expand the Eastern Sanitary Landfill in White Marsh, according to Nick Rodricks, the county’s solid waste management bureau chief.