PPT-Landfills

Part 1 There are 3091 active sanitary landfills in the US and over 10000 old municipal landfills also called rubbish pits or dumps Rubbish Pit vs Landfill Anatomy of a Landfill. 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 Medical waste and drugs 6. Michigan 7. Waste isn 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. 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. . Local Environmental Action 2017. Northeastern University. Kirstie Pecci, . Senior Fellow. (617) . 850-1717. Location of Southbridge Landfill. Proposed Phases I-III. Proposed Phase IV. Subtitle D Requirements Do Not Ensure Protection. 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. . 19.2 Reducing Solid Waste. 19.3 Hazardous Waste. p. . 480-503. 1. Key Terms. Solid waste. Biodegradable. Municipal solid waste. Landfill. Leachate. Source reduction. Recycling. Compost. Hazardous waste. 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. Lecture Outlines Chapter 22 Environment: The Science behind the Stories 4th Edition Withgott/Brennan This lecture will help you understand: The types of waste we generate Managing waste The scale of the waste Debra Reinhart, PhD, PE, BCEE. Ryan Joslyn. Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. TAG Meeting. November 1, 2018. Presentation Overview. Tarek . Abichou. (co-PI, FAMU-FSU COE). Project. :. . Using Nitrate Produced From Leachate To Control Landfill . Odors. Funded by. : . News on landfill odors after hurricanes. 2. Problem statement.