Metalclad

Metalclad is an American landfill management firm.

Metalclad bought a landfill site in Mexico's city of Guadalcázar from a Mexican company Coterin in 1993. Coterin had planned to develop a hazardous waste landfill on the site but were unable to secure the necessary permits from the local government. Metalclad were able to obtain land use permits from the Mexican federal government, but local governments did not respond to their application for a building permit, neither allowing nor denying the site. The mayor of the city was opposed to the landfill because of the amount of toxic waste in it and the threat to the local water supply.