Landfill Mining and Reclamation: Difference between revisions

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**Recovered Soil/Clay (cover material)
**Recovered Soil/Clay (cover material)
**Recovered Aggregate Materials
**Recovered Aggregate Materials
**Typically large amounts of Methane, Sulfur Gasses, and Leachate, which is toxic, but can be processed into useful products
**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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=Internal Links=
=Internal Links=
*[[Gassification]]
*[[Gasification]]
*[[Recycling]]
*[[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

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