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- Composting By: Alasdair Meldrum
What is composting? Composting is a natural process which can mean different things to different people. The term ‘composting’ is used to describe a wide range of activities, from a heap of manure at the bottom of a garden to sophisticated treatment processes for commercial wastes and is designed to reduce the quantity of organic waste sent to landfills.
Community composting sites tend to be relatively small. A typical site may process up to 200 tonnes of material a year. ...
Tags: Composting, PAS100:2005, organic, recycle, environment, landfill
- Scrap Metal Dealer Waste Mangement Licensing Requirements By: Alasdair Meldrum
On May 1st 1994 a new waste management licensing act became law which required any operator who deposited, recovered or disposed of waste required a waste management licence (WML) or exemption. If you operated without either of these then you could be fined and sent to prison. A WML can be applied for and issued by the relevant regulatory authority usually SEPA or the EA.
When obtaining a licence, you are required to be a ‘fit and proper person’ as well as being technicall...
Tags: environment, landfill, recycling, albion, wamitab, cotc, waste, disposal, consultancy trai
- Organic Composting By: Davinos Greeno
Making compost from garden and household waste is one of the best things any gardener can do. Its easy and costs very little in time or effort.
Making compost will help you reduce pollution and cut down that landfill! Your plants will grow healthier and look happier for it and it will save you money on fertilisers too. Our local council in Manchester has now given us brown bins for us to add leaves, grass and other compost matter into, which is then emptied every two weeks...
Tags: Compost, garden, waste, composting, worms, recycle, landfill, dirt, plants, soil, natural,
- Recycling and Landfill By: David McEvoy
Production of waste is a global problem that won’t just go away on its own so we constantly have to find convenient and suitable ways of disposing of it. Every area of our lives involves getting rid of something, whether it is household rubbish, plastic, paper, metal, commercial waste or anything else for that matter that we simply don’t want or need and wish to discard.
Tags: landfill, skip hire
- Recycling To Reduce The Landfills By: Paul Hata
The best way to become eco-friendly and help protect our environment is by recycling. Recycling is the process of taking some of our garbage and re-use it again and again. This helps to eliminate the problem of landfill areas becoming filled with junk that could harm the soil as well as the environment.
Tags: reduce landfill, recycling, environment, tradeplanets, paul hata, cheap plr, cheap article, niche
- Final Storage Quality and How Long Before an Old Landfill Will Cease to be a Landfill? By: Steve D Evans
Due to a lack of reliable data and research on what should be defined as Final Storage Quality, little is known about the real time needed to reach final storage quality for a landfill. In addition, even within the regulatory bodies the concept of final storage quality is poorly understood. Yet, this is an important issue if we are not to put an intolerable burden of enviromental management of old landfills on future generations.
Tags: final storage quality, landfill, closed landfills, old landfill
- Vehicle Factories Stop Filling Landfills By: Ben Anton
This article discusses the recent turn of major automobile and engine manufacturers toward better manufacturing practices in their plants, specifically their zero-landfill and energy efficiency goals.
Tags: small engines, zero landfill, Honda engines
- Energy Savings By: Mervyn Rees
What should we do with our trash? Should we burn it or should we store it in a landfill? Two reasons why storing our trash in a landfill is a better solution, but the third solution is best:
Tags: Energy Facts, Landfill waste, Plastic Carrier Bags, Re-use,
- Methane Gas Extraction from Landfills is Not as Simple as it Looks By: Steve D Evans
It may look as if a few pipes strung out over a landfill will achieve reliable methane gas Extraction from landfills. In fact nothing could be more wrong. Due to problems of condensation in the pipes, and much else besides within the landfill itself, this task is anything but simple. Many new nations are starting to extract landfill gas in Energy from Waste Schemes and will need to pay heed to this article.
Tags: Methane Gas Extraction from Landfills, energy from waste scheme, landfill methane extraction
- Confined Space Regulations and Safety in the Landfill Industry By: Steve D Evans
Confined Spaces Regulations are legally important because they are there to help keep workers safe. We explain how the Confined Spaces Regs should be used and why this is very important for the waste industry and particularly landfill sites where there may be a danger of landfill gas and sometimes carbon monoxide being present as well.
Tags: confined space regulations, landfill safety, confined spaces regulations, ATEX and DSEAR
- Landfill Gas Characteristics and Opportunities By: Steve D Evans
As ever more countries become developed they implement better waste management and dispose of more and more of their growing waste production into low permeability lined and capped landfills. This means that there is an expanding opportunity for landfill gas utilisation, so read this and find out more about lfg.
Tags: landfill gas, landfill gas characteristics, landfill gas opportunities, lfg, efw
- Leachate Treatment and Sustainable Landfill By: Steve D Evans
More and more landfills are being built around the world to accept ever greater quantities of waste. Even where countries are reducing their waste to landfill by recycling etc, there are still massive amounts of waste being sent to landfill. That is why it is hugely important that the world follows sustainable landfilling practices and we explain here why it is essential that landfill leachate treatment policies be changed.
Tags: leachate treatment, sustainable landfill, flushing landfill, watercourse discharge
- Landfill Problems Smokey Mountains and Landfill Pickers By: Steve D Evans
In developing countries a lack of control of waste disposal and a lack of money to enforce the controls which exist is a major problem. In this article we address two major concerns for landfill (or tip) operations in many countries which are that tips tend to grow too high and when overfilled become smoking mountains of part burning waste, which are picked by scavenging individuals looking for anything they can sell.
Tags: landfill, waste compaction, tips, smokey mountains, waste picking, landfill pickers, landf
- Landfill Problems and Global Warming Effects By: Steve D Evans
The problems of landfilling (or waste tipping in dumps) are highlighted in this article, and many are well known to the reader, nevertheless, did you know that landfills can also be highly contributor
Tags: landfill, landfill problems, global warming, waste recycling, leachate, garbage juice, lan
- Waste Prevention and Landfill Methane Production By: Steve D Evans
The best option for landfills is to try not to fill them! Waste reduction, waste prevention and recycling are what all right minded local communities should be doing before they put their waste in a landfill. In this article we explain those matters and then discuss landfill methane production and explosion risks.
Tags: landfill, waste prevention, landfill methane, methane yield calculations, waste-to-energy,
- Landfill and Groundwater Contamination By: Steve D Evans
Huge and ever growing amounts of waste are being landfilled all the time. However, many experts are very worried that short term cost savings in the design and development of landfill could be putting huge areas of underground water (aquifers) at risk of being polluted by them. Once pollution occurs water supplied can be lost for ever, and this is amazingly damaging to future generations who depend on us to keep the water resources of the world clean and suitable for them to drink.
Tags: landfill, groundwater contamination, zero waste, garbage tip, alternative methods to was
- Landfill Garbage and Those Obnoxious Odors By: Steve D Evans
Garbage in landfill has enormous potential to create odors. This fact plays into the hands of landfill activists who often claim that some landfills should not ever be built due to poor odor control.
Tags: landfill, landfill garbage, obnoxious odors, landfill odor, environmental pollution, bio-
- Landfill Leachate is One of the Main Landfill Hazards By: Steve D Evans
Many people think that landfill gas will be the most hazardous landfill problem at all sites, but in reality it is landfill leachate from all but the very driest landfills, which poses the biggest risk to the environment and through that route to the local community. In this article we explain why leachate should be given careful design thought when starting any landfill.
Tags: landfill, Sequencing Batch Reactors, SBRs, engineered wetland system, methane production,
- Landfill Gas a Major Landfill Hazard But Also an Asset By: Steve D Evans
Landfill gas (LFG) is funny, because when done right, the presence of LFG can be collected and flared, and with only marginal further expense the gas to power generating plant can collect additional data on current and future pump performance, in order to tune the design to local EfW jobs to be let in future.
Tags: landfill, anaerobic digestion, electricity generation, renewable energy, burned in the atm
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