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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Future Minimum Rental Payments under Non-Cancellable Operating Leases | Future minimum rental payments under non-cancellable operating leases, which include landfill operating leases, are as follows:
Estimated Future Minimum Lease Payments as of December 31, 2017 |
2018 | $ | 18,465 |
2019 | 14,365 |
2020 | 10,511 |
2021 | 7,905 |
2022 | 5,705 |
Thereafter | 33,760 |
Total minimum lease payments | $ | 90,711 |
Schedule of Environmental Liability Associated with Potsdam | A summary of the changes to the environmental remediation liability associated with the Potsdam environmental remediation liability follows:
| Fiscal Year Ended December 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016
Beginning balance | $ | 5,866 |  |  | $ | 5,221 |
Payments | (108 | ) |  | (255 | )
Obligations incurred | — |  |  | 900 |
Ending balance | $ | 5,758 |  |  | $ | 5,866 |
The changes to the environmental remediation liability associated with the Southbridge Landfill are as follows:
| Fiscal Year Ended December 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016
Beginning balance | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
Accretion expense | 82 |  |  | — |
Obligations incurred | 6,379 |  |  | — |
Obligations settled (1) | (525 | ) |  | — |
Ending balance | $ | 5,936 |  |  | $ | — |
(1) | Includes amounts that are being processed through accounts payable as a part of our disbursements cycle.
Schedule of Total Expected Environmental Remediation Payments for Succeeding Year | The total expected environmental remediation payments, in today’s dollars, for each of the five succeeding fiscal years and the aggregate amount thereafter are as follows:
Estimated Future Environmental Remediation Payments as of December 31, 2017
2018 | $ | 865 |
2019 | 4,339 |
2020 | 755 |
2021 | 403 |
2022 | 385 |
Thereafter | 6,621 |
Total | $ | 13,368 |
Reconciliation of Expected Aggregate Non-inflated, Undiscounted Environmental Remediation Liability to Amount Recognized in Statement of Financial Position | A reconciliation of the expected aggregate non-inflated, undiscounted environmental remediation liability to the amount recognized in the statement of financial position is as follows:
Undiscounted liability | $ | 13,368 |
Less discount, net | (1,674 | )
Liability balance - December 31, 2017 | $ | 11,694 |

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