Chaffee Landfill

Chaffee Landfill is the town landfill out on Olean Road that locals use when transfer stations won’t take something or for larger pile-ups of household or construction trash. Folks from Chaffee and nearby towns drop off loads here; it’s the sort of place used when material needs to be buried rather than recycled. It’s a proper landfill, not a transfer station or drop-off recycling center.

The site is large and open-big rolling fills rather than compact buildings-so expect to drive past a small entrance booth and over a scale where tipping fees are calculated by weight. Traffic often lines up on busy weekends or during spring cleanups, and commercial trucks share the lanes with pickup trucks and trailers. Pull up to the unloading area when directed; loads are emptied at the working face and moved into the cell for burial. There are recycling or metal drop spots at many upstate landfills, usually off to one side, but this is primarily where trash gets buried.