Get answers to your leachate treatment questions, including management options, common regulations and more.
As regulations tighten and POTWs get pickier, landfills must turn their attention to their leachate contamination, focusing on these 8 contaminants.
It’s a nightmare come true for many landfills: The closest publicly owned treatment works (POTW) stops accepting your leachate. Maybe it’s too contaminated. Maybe they can take some, but not all of it. Or maybe they simply jacked the price up too high to be economically feasible. Regardless, when this happens to you, you’ll have […]
It’s 4 p.m. The last truck of the day just dumped its waste and the rest of the trash has already been compacted properly, meaning your team can finally start applying daily cover. For the next three hours, four employees will drive a dozer up and down the slopes, hauling your limited supply of dirt […]
Daily cover in a solid waste landfill is a capital-intensive operation. Generally, at a minimum, three large pieces of equipment are required: a backhoe, a bulldozer and a dump truck. What if one of those breaks down unexpectedly? And what if replacement is the only solution? Is there room in your CapEx budget to buy […]
