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**Recovered Soil/Clay (cover material) | **Recovered Soil/Clay (cover material) | ||
**Recovered Aggregate Materials | **Recovered Aggregate Materials | ||
**Typically large | **Sometimes Methane Gas (if captured and not released) | ||
**Typically large Sulfur Compound Gasses, and Mixed Chemical Leachate, which is toxic, but can be processed into useful products | |||
**[[Refuse Derived Fuel]] (sort of like biomass, but much more unpredictable) | **[[Refuse Derived Fuel]] (sort of like biomass, but much more unpredictable) | ||
***This can in turn be made into [[Syngas]] and [[Slag]] | ***This can in turn be made into [[Syngas]] and [[Slag]] | ||
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*[[Recycling]] | |||
=External Links= | =External Links= | ||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining The Wikipedia Page on Landfill Mining and Reclamation] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining The Wikipedia Page on Landfill Mining and Reclamation] | ||
Latest revision as of 23:17, 17 July 2020
Basics
- Essentially Strip Mining but of Landfills
- Easier with modern landfills, but can be done with old (even informal) ones.
- In older ones, it can even be of historic value (like a time capsule of sorts, anthropologists, and archeologits do this with old "mounds" with mainly shells and bones of food, but this is a similar modern form)
- Leads to:
- Recovered Recyclable Materials (Metal, Glass, Plastic, Misc)
- Recovered Soil/Clay (cover material)
- Recovered Aggregate Materials
- Sometimes Methane Gas (if captured and not released)
- Typically large Sulfur Compound Gasses, and Mixed Chemical Leachate, which is toxic, but can be processed into useful products
- Refuse Derived Fuel (sort of like biomass, but much more unpredictable)
- Finally the land is returned to it's natural state and/or develped