Slow but Steady Growth 

Mike Fickes Business Editor

LANDFILL GAS (LFG) contaminants, at times, have cast a cloud over engine maintenance and emissions in the landfill gas energy (LFGE) industry. Because...

The Air Up There 

Michael Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

AS ORGANIC LANDFILL MATERIALS decompose, landfill waste shrinks and settles, adding valuable new airspace that can extend a disposal facility's life while...

All is Well 

Michael Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

THE HARSH ENVIRONMENT OF LANDFILLS inevitably limits the effective life of gas extraction wells. But it is possible to postpone the inevitable, according...

How to Own a Landfill (and sleep at night) 

By Richard A. Peluso and Rodney J. Taylor

THE AFTERLIFE CAN BE SCARY, especially for landfill owners who often base their family's finances on the successful operation and management of a disposal...

Improved Circulation 

By Prentiss A. Shaw and Maura Dougherty

THE CONCEPT OF RECIRCULATING leachate in a bioreactor landfill has been gaining momentum because bioreactors help to maximize landfill gas (LFG) capture...

POISON PLANKS 

By Kim A. O'Connell

TREATING LUMBER WITH chromated copper arsenate (CCA) has largely freed the construction industry from such creepy-crawlies as microbes, termites and other...

Stepping Up the Gas 

Michael Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

A TRUE BIOREACTOR LANDFILL has a lot to live up to. When operated properly, bioreactors can reduce environmental risks, increase landfill capacity, control...

It Takes Three 

Patricia-Anne Tom Editor

AS THE SAYING GOES, two heads are better than one. It seems that three may be even better for reducing recycling and disposal costs, according to Wisconsin's...

Reclaiming Eden 

Michael Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

AMERICANS OFTEN THINK of Beirut as a dangerous place where 260 U.S. Marines died when a truck filled with explosives crashed into a military compound....

Landfill Helps Build BMWs 

Michael Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

WASTE MANAGEMENT INC. (WMI) has been earning a little extra cash by moonlighting with the BMW Manufacturing Corp. Since April, Houston-based WMI's 4,000-ton-per-day...

WELL GROUNDED 

By Kim A. O'Connell

GARBAGE MOVES QUICKLY through a landfill, but changes in the landfill business move at a much slower pace. With waste generation steady and recycling...

THE HEAVY WEIGHTS 

BY KIM A. O'CONNELL

LANDFILL SPACE IS NOT LIMITLESS even in the wide open West. The 110-acre Salt River Landfill in Scottsdale, Ariz., for example, is by a canal to the north...

BOOM County 

By Margie W. Byers and Lindsey J. Sampson

IN THE PAST DECADE, southwest Florida's Lee County has emerged as the hub of one of the fastest growing areas in the country. Of course, the county's...

Landfill Magic 

Kim A. O'Connell Contributing Editor Arlington, Va.

ONE OF THE MANY CHALLENGES faced by landfill managers is reducing landfill emissions. Short of a magic wand, the Sullivan County Landfill, Monticello,...

Gas into Cash 

Dennis Bollinger Energy Developments Houston www.energydevelopments.com

LANDFILL OWNERS INCREASINGLY are converting their facilities' landfill gas (LFG) into electricity and reaping both environmental and economic rewards....

Then Add Water 

By D. T. Mandeville, J. W. Stenborg and E. P. Farrell

BIOREACTOR LANDFILLS increasingly are being viewed as viable waste disposal options because they help to speed biodegradation and increase the waste stabilization...

Sainte Sophie Shines 

Kim A. O'Connell Contributing Editor, Arlington, Va.

A SEISMIC SHIFT IN LANDFILL management may be under way, based on tests of bioreactor landfills. In one recent example, Intersan, a division of Houston-based...

Going for the Green 

By Chris Voell

SOMETIMES LANDFILL GAS-TO-ENERGY (LFGE) project hiccups are unavoidable. Nevertheless, the following projects overcame development barriers, forged strategic...

Computing Landfill Data 

Chris G. Bratsch, URS Corp. Minneapolis, Minn., and Ingrid Verhagen Minnesota Pollution Control Agen

MAINTAINING UP-TO-DATE INVENTORIES, response-action monitoring and data quality for 108 closed landfills posed a challenge for the Minnesota Pollution...

Science that Goes to Waste 

By Michael Fickes

HISTORICALLY, MONEY SPENT ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH in the waste management industry has been limited. When asked challenging questions about waste, its...

Not Your Ordinary Cap 

Eric Aitchison Ecolotree North Liberty, Iowa www.ecolotree.com

THE PRACTICE OF USING engineered tree caps to cover landfills is beginning to grow roots in the waste industry. Although low-permeability clay or geomembrane...

FANNING THE FLAMES 

By Kim A. O'Connell

LANDFILL GAS (LFG) PROBABLY IS NOT at the top of every politician's agenda, but in 2003, many in the waste industry are hoping it will be. The prospects...

Growing Old Gracefully 

By Mark D. Varljen

WHEN MAINTAINING A landfill, it's easy for groundwater monitoring equipment and procedures to fall off the radar. After all, once a system is set up,...

Lessons in LFGTE 

By Jeffrey L. Pierce

Although there are more than 300 landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) projects successfully operating in the United States, these projects are not immune to...

Lids for Landfills 

By Carol Badaracco Padgett

Like lids for garbage cans, landfill alternative daily covers (ADCs) keep waste contained and under control during hours when humans aren't present. So...