There is so much talk in the developed nations about
recycling and reducing the filling of landfills, and even ceasing to use
landfills as in the philosophy of "zero waste", that it is easy for
us in the west to forget what is happening elsewhere. It is a fact that with
rising global affluence, landfills are being built ever faster around the world
as whole, and ever bigger, to take the still rising tide of man's waste.
In the industrializing nations there is far less regulation
of landfills than in the developed countries, and although in nations such as
the US, and throughout the European Union, the law in the form of each nation's
Waste Regulations requires all landfills to be lined and capped as
"containment" landfills, the same does not apply in most less
developed countries.
Those people that are choosing landfill site locations in
the developing nations have more freedom to either damage, or protect the
environment, and that is why it is so important that they consider landfills
and the environment from the start of their landfill project.
The main impacts that a landfill can potentially have on the
environment come under the following headings:
landfill gas emissions and dust to the
air as a local problem with odours etc
landfill gas seeping out sideways from a landfill - which
could get into houses etc
landfill gas getting out into the atmosphere where
scientists believe it will add to the greenhouse effect that is causing global
warming
landfill "garbage juice" or "leachate" -
dirty rainwater which seeps through the waste - and can badly pollute
groundwater when it seeps into the ground
leachate which can break-out of landfill sides and pollute
nearby rivers and streams
dust, which can possibly contain infectious agents
noise from the landfilling activity
birds which can spread disease and move between suburban
gardens and open tip faces.
Now, that's a pretty big list of possible negative effects
of landfills on the environment. You would think that it would be best to just
completely contain them seal them up (at huge cost) like a huge garbage big,
with a lined floor and a sealed cap on top.
But it isn't necessarily. You could just let the rainwater
that falls, run through them and out of the bottom, and if the bottom was build
like a big biological filter the environment around the landfill would never be
harmed.
To find out more about landfills, visit the responsible
landfill design blog article page, which we think you will find is well worth a
visit for EVERYONE planning a new landfill.
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