PPT-Landfills

Air Pollution Air Compliance and Enforcement Jeff Meyer 1 Overview Landfill Overview Emissions Permit Applicability Potential to Emit Permit Requirements Federal Regulations 2 Landfill Overview. Landfills receive wastes. Today, about 56 percent of our countrys trash is disposed of in landfills (EPA, - ing, food scraps, yard trimmings, and other munici - pal solid waste landfills - ard Final Regulation. August 19, 2015. Frank Ney. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Region 4. Introduction. On December 19, 2014, the Administrator signed the . Final Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Rule. Philosophy: To contain the waste in a environmentally sound manner. Landfill method of Solid Waste Disposal. Landfill . Siting. considerations. Liner Systems for landfills. Leachate. Collection & Removal System. . Part 1. There are 3,091 active sanitary landfills in the U.S. and over 10,000 old municipal landfills - also called rubbish pits or dumps. . Rubbish Pit vs. Landfill. Anatomy of a Landfill. All information provided in this presentation courtesy of. www.epa.gov. Solid waste. MSW. – . Municipal Solid Waste. includes residential waste (including waste from apartment houses) and waste from commercial and institutional locations, such as businesses, schools, and hospitals.. Disposable nappy/diaper Plastic bottle. Cotton T shirt Paper bag. Leather belt Banana peel. Styrofoam cup . Aluminium. can. Glass bottle Block of wood. Disposable nappy/diaper 500 . yrs. Landfills. In landfills, waste is buried in the ground or piled up in large, carefully engineered mounds. Landfills. Waste is partially decomposed by bacteria and compresses under its own weight to take up less space. The largest landfill in the world, it closed in 2001. Staten Island residents viewed the landfill as an eyesore and civic blemish. It was briefly reopened to bury rubble from the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001, attack. Waste Diversion Strategies in the Unincorporated Communities of Los Angeles County Throughout the Region and at County Operations. Environmental Programs Division. Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. Public-Private Alliance. “You can tell how high a society is. by how much of its garbage is recycled.”. —. Dhyani. . Ywahoo. , Native American. Commercial Food Waste collected . Organic Liquid Fertilizer. PE. . Vice . President, National CCR Practice . Energy Waste . (CCR) Disposal in Subtitle D Landfills. Agenda. What . are CCRs?. CCR Rule Summary. How the . CCR Rule . is expected to affect handling of CCR. In our globalize economy raw materials are extracted ; transported, processed in factories, shipped around the world to the markets for their value.. When they are no more valued they will be treated and disposed as waste, transported, burned or buried at the landfills and polluting the environment.. Making Mountains out of Landfills . Here . are some more surprising statistics about food consumption and waste in the United States today: . Every . year, Americans consume 2000 pounds of food and one-quarter of this ends up in a landfill. . WASTE. Managing Solid Waste Disposal. Waste Stream – the steady flow of matter from raw materials, through manufacturing, product formation and marketing, and on to its final resting place – a solid waste dump.