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How long does it take before a landfill site can be used again?
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∙ 14y ago
Landfill sites are planned never to be used again (by government's because of the hazards involved.
For example: The rotting waste often contains toxic or harmful chemicals (although it should not) which could pose a health hazard to anyone living too near. It would not be appropriate to build a property, especially one with a garden, on such a site.
Another reason is that the decomposing waste uses up less space in the ground each year, it both compresses and loses some of its mass as methane gas. If a car or other heavy object passed over the site it could easily break through the soft ground, falling in to the hole that is left. If the air in the hole was more than about 50% methane, then anyone who landed in it would suffocate. There are other more obvious heath risks, such as broken glass, so these sites are kept with no possible plan for future use.
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stuff that goes in a landfill.
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How do you say landfill in french?
un site d'enfouissement
Which landfill site poses the greatest ecological danger for people and organisms?
the water site
What goes into a landfill site?
A landfill is a huge hole dug up into the earth which is then filled with rubbish that we throw out every day.
What is an adavantage of burying waste in landfill sites?
if you're going to bury a murdered baby in the landfill site then it will be really hard for the cops to find it
Where does all rubbish go?
All of our rubbish goes to a landfill site
What is good about a landfill site?
It creates methane that can be used to create electricity
What to do with meat byproducts instead of putting in landfill site?
Slop the hogs.
What are the environmental impacts of depositing waste from a water treatment facility in a landfill?
The groundwater near the landfill would become polluted by the wastes, unless the landfill site was carefully designed and built to prevent pollution of groundwater resources.
What happens to trash that is not recycled?
It is put in a landfill site and slowly it bio-degrades into the earth
