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A landfill [a] is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s.
A landfill is a site for the permanent disposal of waste materials by burial. The present category lists articles related to landfill. For individual landfill sites, ...
The design of the "vertical landfill" was awarded the first prize at the 2019 eVolo futuristic skyscraper design competition. [6] The waste tower, "which visually resembles contraptions from Mad Max ", is a vertical skeletal construction with capsules attached to a concrete core.
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Solar arrays on a full landfill in Rehoboth, MA. A solar landfill, also referred to as a brightfield, [1] is a former landfill site that has been transformed into a solar array or solar farm. Landfills that are no longer in use are often called brownfields due to potential environmental concerns.
A gas flare produced by a landfill in Lake County, Ohio. Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example, food waste and paper waste. Landfill gas is approximately forty to sixty percent methane, with the remainder being mostly carbon dioxide.
The use of landfill gas is considered a green fuel source because it offsets the use of environmentally damaging fuels such as oil or natural gas, destroys the heat-trapping gas methane, and the gas is generated by deposits of waste that are already in place. 450 of the 2,300 landfills in the United States have operational landfill gas ...