In the first year of operations under this project much has been accomplished in line with the broad objectives: To evaluate, develop, and demonstrate practices involving a combination of municipalities having a common problem of solid wastes handling; To establish the means for administering and operating a regionalized disposal system; To correlate a regional program with a state program and provide basic data to the State Health Department in furtherance of its long range solid waste disposal planning; To construct and demonstrate a pilot operation selected as best for the region; To encourage regional solid waste handling for all urban area of Passaic County through demonstration of a program applicable to four major municipalities of the County. The Quad-City region comprises of the cities of Clifton, Passaic, and Paterson and the Town of Wayne, New Jersey. These objectives are discussed.