[USCC] Landfill

[Donna Pascoe]

Hello Myron, There are digesters on the market and operational in Europe 
that semi-digest the waste material, remove the methane and put the 
semi-digested material out for final digestion into stable compost. The 
drawback of these units is their cost of around $ 20,000,000. and the 
undying dream of cheap places to hide waste.
My concern of adding anything to landfill is not a slight reduction in 
available material for composting but the increase in the volume of toxic 
leachates that run everyday, for who knows how long, from every landfill. 
Although our company has been very sucessful in treating this leachate it is 
an expensive and complex arrangement.
As many of us embraced composting as part of a wholelistic solution to no 
more landfills in the future, I think a few pennies of poor quality dirty 
methane will soon run its coarse in the history of dumb ideas.
Regards Peter Turrell
Director Millennium Institution
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>Subject: [USCC] Landfill
>Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:21:33 -0500
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>For future discusions:
>
>As active landfills put in gas collection systems they sometimes claim to 
>now be a recycling option because they capture?some of the methane.? This 
>has actually caused the closing of some good composting operations due to 
>yard trimmings being diverted back into landfills.
>
>Does someone have the?statistics on this subject?? Estimates of the carbon 
>going into a landfill would be fairly?easy to calculate, the captured 
>methane coming out is measureable.? An estimate of how long a landfill will 
>continue to produce is? available so therefore an efficiency should?have 
>been calculated.? I am sure it has , I just don't remember it.
>
>Could someone from the compost?group help me on this.???
>
>Thank you
>Myron Hirschman?
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