Here is a blog post outlining ways to obtain data to display the solid waste facilities in California using CalRecycle Data. I used several well-known data analysis tools such as python (requests, pandas, beautifulsoup) for general web scraping, plotly libraries for graphs, and ArcMap Online to produce the main graphic.

A more in-depth discussion is provided here:

https://fangherk.github.io/wastemap/index.html

Please feel free to contact me at hfang@hmc.edu if you have any questions or concerns!