Three Ways to Manage a Landfill

Three Ways to Manage a Landfill

Three Ways to Manage a Landfill

Three Ways of Managing a Land Fill

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American produces about 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of garbage a day, or a total of 29 pounds (13 kg) per week and 1,600 pounds (726 kg) a year. This number only considers a person as a household member, and does not include waste generated by a person on the job, or in the office. With numbers like that, it's obvious that America has a problem to deal with: managing trash and the disposal of it.

Today, it is common for cities to contract out to waste management companies, who pickup trash on a weekly schedule in neighborhoods around the country. Many people forgot about there garbage as soon as it leaves there yard, but the truth is, that trash doesn't disappear. It must go somewhere. That somewhere, is often a land fill.

The travels of a bag of trash often don't end in the back of the trash truck. They eventually make it to a processing facility and ultimately, if it survives, to a land fill. Managing a landfill these days takes alot of work. The first, and worst way to manage a landfill is to just dump the trash in a hole, and ignore it. This leads to alot of problems though. Exposing trash to the elements makes it, well, more trashy, for lack of a better word. This leads to worse aroumas, and leaving trash exposed in the open air allows for those aroumas to spread even further, thus lowering the value of land around the fill even more.

The second and often conventional way of managing this problem is by using the dirt dug to create the original hole, to cover the land fill, thus helping to protect it from the elements, and helping to pack the waste down. While this method is a better alternative, it results in reducing the value of a by product of the fill, ( the original soil ), by keeping it on hand to fill the land fill. Also, once you run out of the original soil, you have to start hauling in soil from other sources, thus increasing the cost of managing your land fill.

An alternative that combines cost effectiveness with the benefits of covering the land fill involve purchasing land fill covers. Reusable land fill covers are usually made of strong polymer based fibers, and are flame retardant in the case of accidents in the fill. They are easy to apply and remove, allowing them to cover the landfill when new waste isn't coming in, and removing them each day during delivery times. Over time, they often result in tremendous cost savings, by not having to purchase soil repeatedly.

Combining landfill covers with great facility management is a great first step for any area that's trying to get control over America's largest growing problem.

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