landfill waste Articles
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Which Material is Best as A Liner for A Landfill
Landfill leakage pollution is very harmful to the environment. After the soil is polluted, it will be salinized, poisoned, parasites, pathogenic bacteria and other pathogens in the soil can make people sick. Infiltration can also contaminate groundwater and enter the human food chain, causing serious harm to the human body. Artificial material impermeability: geomembrane are usually high-density ...
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Hazard assessment of waste disposal sites. Part 1: literature review
A review of the literature and computer models from the perspective of hazard assessment approaches, particularly relating to the risk analysis of waste disposal sites, has been carried out. It was found that a comprehensive hazard assessment procedure covering all modules and sub-modules for landfill leachate does not exist. The same deduction also applies to landfill gas and degraded landfill ...
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Waste in The EU at the Turn of the Century
Abstract The major part of waste in the EU ends up at landfills. In the EU waste strategy, a hierarchy for waste management has been set up: minimisation, material recovery, energy recovery and, only as the last resort, landfilling. This hierarchy is not reflected in real life. In a discussion of how to reduce amounts of waste going to landfill it is important to look at the factors of policy, ...
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Diverting waste from landfill - effectiveness of EU waste-management policies
With landfill at the bottom of the European waste hierarchy, policies to divert waste from landfill play a very important role within European and national waste policies. This report analyses the effectiveness of implemented policies on the diversion of total municipal waste and biodegradable municipal waste from landfill in the context of the 1999 EU Landfill Directive and other relevant ...
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Ground Water Monitoring of a Solid Waste Landfill, Germany
Reference Project: Ground Water Monitoring of a Solid Waste Landfill, Germany In Germany solid waste landfills are required to monitor the ground water on and around their premises and to regularly submit reports to the responsible environmental authority. It is the duty of the landfill operator to show that there is no strong negative effect on the ground water as it passes below the landfill. ...
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An EEB Snapshot Report `The quality of National Implementation of the Waste Landfill Directive
The information contained in this report aims to achieve a ‘snapshot’ of where we are with the implementation of the waste landfilling directive, form the perspective of the environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) working on national and local waste policies. The sample of the countries covered includes 13 countries covering all regions of the EU25 – the North and Nordic, the ...
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Sustainable management of household solid waste
In most countries, the majority of household solid waste is landfilled because of associated low capital, operation and maintenance costs. However, many existing landfills have exhausted their handling capacities and new facilities are faced with the problem of siting. Alternatives to traditional landfill practice are required to achieve sustainability in managing solid waste. This manuscript ...
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Non-Hazardous Landfill - Case Study
Municipal solid waste landfill is site for domestic day-to-day waste disposal. Its also known as tip, rubbish dump, dumping ground, etc. Material stored at solid waste landfill is isolated from the environment by sealing layer which can be HDPE or LDPE or even PVC geomembrane. If such geomembrane leaks, the contaminant from landfill is spreading in direction of the groundwater flow. This way it ...
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Disposal options for solid waste of Bangalore city based on its characteristics
A detailed analysis of Bangalore's solid waste has been done to suggest various management options for safe disposal. It has been observed that Bangalore's solid waste contains a larger proportion of degradable waste compared to many other cities. Based on detailed analysis of available data, it has been suggested that a landfill with a leachate and gas collection system is better than an inert ...
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Characterization of solid waste and determination of the emission potential
Waste samples were taken in order to investigate the material behaviour regarding different treatment/recycling options. In waste incineration, the combustible and inert parts have to be determined. The content of biodegradable organic substances is important in biological treatment. The portion of biodegradable organic substance has also to be considered if wastes are to be landfilled. This ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Movement of toxic metals from small-scale industrial areas: a case study from Delhi, India
In India, an estimated 70% of the total industrial pollution load is attributed to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Among SMEs, small-scale industries continue to use obsolete technologies with no stringent rules for pollution control. Consequently, waste generated from them is generally dumped without treatment. These facts are strengthened from the analysis conducted on solid waste and ...
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Warren County Case History
A non-hazardous solid waste landfill in northwestern New Jersey successfully used construction and demolition (C&D) debris screenings as an alternative daily landfill cover for six years, until landfill gas sampling indicated excessively high H2S volumes. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates an average of 35.5 parts per million by volume (ppmv) of H2S in landfill gas, the ...
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The quality of National Implementation of the Waste Landfill Directive
Untitled Document Executive Summary The information contained in this report aims to achieve a ‘snapshot’ of where we are with the implementation of the waste landfilling directive, form the perspective of the environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) working on national and local waste policies. The sample of the countries covered includes 13 ...
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Cumbria Waste Management Ltd - Use of the Strathkelvin Strathtox respirometer in waste acceptance testing
Cumbria Waste Management Limited is a local authority waste disposal company with 3 operational landfill sites at Distington near Workington, Hespin Wood near Carlisle and Flusco near Penrith. Prior to disposal to sewer, all of the leachate from these landfills is treated on-site in biological treatment lagoons which are run as sequential batch reactors (SBRs), these routinely achieve removal ...
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The Changing Shape of the Waste Management Industry
According to a recent interview conducted with Mike Walters, the waste and recycling manager for John Lewis, he highlighted his predictions for the waste management industry. In his talks on the future for the industry, he envisages a shift in resource efficiency and he predicts that in 20 years, there will be no such thing as “waste” but “end-of-first-life materials”. ...
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Groundwater Monitoring of a Solid Waste Landfill in Germany
In Germany solid waste landfills are required to monitor the ground water on and around their premises and to regularly submit reports to the responsible environmental authority. It is the duty of the landfill operator to show that there is no strong negative effect on the ground water as it passes below the landfill. To be able to measure the impact of the landfill on the ground water quality, ...
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Monitoring And Analysis of Landfill Gases
CoGDEM is the trade association representing manufacturers and service providers who are active in the field of gas detection instrumentation and environmental monitoring apparatus. Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd was one of the founding members of CoGDEM, and in this article their Product Manager of Fixed Systems, Andy Avenell, gives an update on Landfill Gas. Landfill is by far the most ...
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How Does a Modern Landfill Work
In many people’s minds, landfills are dirty and smelly, sewage is flowing, and flies are flying around. In fact, this is a false impression. A true sanitary landfill has a set of strict standards, starting with garbage entering the site. From landfill to comprehensive use, every process is not simple. There are more than 400 million urban residents in my country, and more than 150 million ...
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How Much Does Lead Paint Removal Cost?
The Blastox blend is $259 per ton. The regular abrasive is $105 per ton. So, you’ll see lead paint removal costs $154 more upfront for Blastox. But, you need to include the cost of transportation and the disposal rate to get a true comparison. There are a lot more non-hazardous landfills than hazardous waste landfills, and that’s the reason why freight is so cheap for non-haz waste; ...
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Initial stages of pollutants dispersion around municipal waste disposal facilities: a case study in Northern Portugal
The combined use of several geological, geochemical and geophysical observations during six years enabled the detection of a very faint halo of chemical contamination induced by the operation of a young waste disposal facility in Northern Portugal. The halo does not classify as pollution by any standards, but is observed to be intensifying and thus signals a potential hazardous situation in ...
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