A complete list of all programs within the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)
Resources and information on utilizing RRD's data exchange and the Inventory of Facilities.
An interactive map displaying contaminated sites throughout Michigan regulated under Parts 213, 201, and 211.
EGLE's interactive calendar is designed to provide timely information on decisions before the Director, proposed settlements of contested cases, administrative rules promulgation, public hearings, meetings and comment deadlines, and environmental conferences, workshops and training programs.
The Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides all persons (except persons incarcerated in correctional facilities) with access to public records of public bodies. Requests to inspect or receive public records from EGLE must be in writing and describe the requested records with enough detail to enable the department to identify and locate the requested records. Some records are exempt from disclosure under the FOIA or another statute and thus will not be provided. A fee may be charged to process your request. Please note that many records are available that do not require a formal FOIA request.
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Sueann Murphy
EGLE-MMD-SW@Michigan.gov
517-899-5594
EGLE is focused on reducing the impacts of material choices on our natural resources, the environment, and climate by establishing convenient, inclusive access to recycling, organics management, waste reduction opportunities, and adequate disposal options.
Consistent with Michigan's Solid Waste Policy, our programs recognize waste as a resource that should be managed to promote economic vitality, ecological integrity, and improved quality of life in a way that fosters sustainability. In addition to ensuring that waste disposal practices are protective of the public and environment, we promote a systematic approach to using/reusing resources productively and sustain-ably throughout their life cycles, from the point of resource extraction through material recycling or final disposal.
Materials management includes managing recyclables, organics, tires, wood, concrete, and other materials traditionally considered trash and landfilled.
In addition to ensuring that waste disposal practices are protective of the public and environment, we promote a systematic approach to using/reusing resources productively and sustainably throughout their life cycles, from the point of resource extraction through material recycling or final disposal. Materials management includes managing recyclables, organics, tires, wood, concrete, and other materials traditionally considered trash and landfilled. This map shows the locations of these regulated facilities.
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The sustainable materials management hierarchy prioritizes actions we can all take to prevent and divert unwanted materials from being landfilled. Each level in the hierarchy focuses on different management strategies for recovering value from unwanted materials. The top levels share the best ways to prevent and divert materials from being landfilled. They provide the most benefits for the environment, society, and the economy, while the bottom levels represent the worst options.
Preventing waste is the simplest action each of us can do to preserve natural resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and curb climate change.
Deconstruction is a form of recycling where construction and building materials are disassembled from old buildings that would have otherwise been strictly demolished. The material that are salvaged during deconstruction can be reused or recycled for other purposes.
This program is designed to help communities and businesses find innovative ways to reuse industrial byproducts that are either designated inert or non-hazardous while ensuring public and environmental health is protected. This program helps in reducing overall costs to the economy by recycle/reuse and keeps those material out of landfills. This program relies on the latest science, engineering principles, and controls to provide adequate solid waste characterization.
Composting is good for the environment by reducing landfill waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing carbon in the atmosphere. The Compost Program has information and resources for all composters, from backyard setups to large commercial facilities, and anything in-between.
The Michigan Electronic Waste Take Back Program assures that consumers in the state have convenient access to proper reuse and recycling of unwanted electronics. This includes assuring that manufacturers are complying with Michigan’s Extended Producer Responsibility law and that recyclers of electronics are meeting essential environmental and data security standards.
EGLE is helping communities keep materials out of landfills and finding the highest and best use for them.
This page provides resources as part of EGLE's effort to help communities, residents, businesses, and materials management professionals connect and work towards meeting our goals of increasing material management opportunities across Michigan and achieving carbon neutrality in 2050.Each county in Michigan has a Solid Waste Management Plan that ensures adequate disposal capacity and assures that all the non-hazardous solid waste generated in the county is collected and recovered, processed, or disposed at facilities that comply with state laws and rules.
In the future, Counties will be transitioning Solid Waste Management Plans to Materials Management plans with a materials management focus. This shift will increase recycling access, infrastructure, and market development as well as, Counties will be encouraged to look at and integrate other sustainable practices.
Materials Management Facilities regulated under Part 115 of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act.
The Medical Waste Regulatory Program manages producers of regulated wastes by location in Michigan. Facilities are registered and regulated in an environmental and public health protective manner. The program assists both industries and the public regarding the proper disposal of medical waste in accordance with the current state regulations.
The Part 175 Recycling Reporting law requires certain recycling facilities to register and report the amount of certain common recyclables they process each year. Once reported, the aggregated data is published online in an annual report.
The scrap tire program regulates transportation, storage and disposal of scrap tires under Part 169 of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended. An annual registration is required for scrap tire haulers and collection sites.
Although the solid waste regulations do not require a license, permit, or registration from EGLE to haul solid waste, there are several regulations that haulers must meet to ensure human health and our environment are protected.
EGLE regulates facilities used for the handling and disposal of solid waste under Part 115, Solid Waste Management, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended. Transfer facilities, processing plants, solid waste landfills, and industrial surface impoundments used for waste disposal are all subject to the permitting, licensing and operational standards established under Michigan’s Solid Waste Management Regulatory program.
