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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. The present category lists articles related to landfill. For individual landfill sites, refer to the webpage Category:Landfills .
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The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE, Vietnamese: Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for: land, water resources; mineral resources, geology; environment; hydrometeorology; climate change; surveying and mapping; management of the islands and the sea.
Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the United States, with municipal solid waste landfills representing 95 percent of this fraction. [15] [16] In the U.S., the number of landfill gas projects increased from 399 in 2005, to 594 in 2012 [17] according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Landfill mining and reclamation (LFMR) is a process which excavates and processes solid wastes which have previously been landfilled. [1] The process aims to reduce the amount of landfill mass encapsulated within the closed landfill and/or temporarily remove hazardous material to allow protective measures to be taken before the landfill mass is replaced.
Landfill gas, principally methane and carbon dioxide, is formed once anaerobic conditions are achieved within the landfill, and leachate is formed as liquids percolate through landfilled waste and pick up a cocktail of toxic and contaminating elements from the multiple waste fractions that comprise Municipal Solid Waste.
A 10-year study done at the SENT landfill in Tai Chik Sha in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, shows that plant and tree species could survive following the restoration of a landfill. [3] The site was initially lined with a multilayer composite bottom layer, then had a landfill gas and leachate collection system incorporated, and was covered by a final ...