Landfills By Kwame Osborne The Disposal of Products

Landfills By: Kwam`e Osborne

The Disposal of Products In the Landfills. • Today Landfills are the most popular methods of disposing waste. It is a carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground , which trash is separated from the area around it.

What Can And Cannot Be Discarded? Cannot • Televisions • Computers (desktop, laptop, netbook and tablet computers) • Desktop printers (including those that scan, fax and/or copy) • Computer monitors • Computer accessories (including keyboards, mice, speakers, external hard drives and flash drives) • DVD players • VCRs and other video players (i. e. DVRs) • Fax machines • Cell phones • Tires • Batteries and any oil base produced Can • Clothes • Food • Plastic • Paper • Certain metals • And other house hold items

Landfills Tech • Nationwide, the number of landfill gas projects, which convert methane gas from rotting garbage into power, jumped from 399 in 2005 to 519 last year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. • There's certainly an increasing interest in doing these projects, " says Rachel Goldstein, leader of EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program, which provides technical help to develop them. The projects power homes, buildings and vehicles.

How Does Recycling Paper Helps Landfills? • Recycling paper is a good way to save landfills, which in turn has a positive effect on the areas surrounding the landfills. How does recycling paper help landfills? The first issue is that paper takes quite some time to break down compared to organic matter (food scraps, leaves, etc. ); the high volume of paper in the modern world fills up landfills quickly, reducing the amount of space available for true garbage (waste that cannot be recycled).

Landfills System

Leachate Collection System Collects and removes liquids from the Landfill.

Gas Contaminants in a Landfill Anaerobic decomposition of waste produces Methane gas. The gas must be removed from the landfill or the landfill cell may become explosive Methane Storage Tank Methane Flare

A Landfill Cell • The goal of a landfill is to cover it, isolate it, and keep it from contaminating the air and groundwater • Tractors compact waste to create layers in a landfill cell. This make the work site more organized.