LANDFILL: Companies Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions 

Rebekah A. Hall

Few people may want admit to having gas, but the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Washington, D.C., is encouraging them to report it.Through the DOE's...

Gas Projects Generate Winners 

Shelley Cohen

Many innovative projects and partnerships thrive in the landfill gas industry. The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Landfill...

Alaska Landfill Covered 

Joel J. Grunwaldt, Wilford P. Kryger and Kelly S. Merrill

With Alaska's frigid climate and extreme seismic activity, successful landfill planning, design and management is a daunting task. However, year after...

LANDFILL: Washing Landfill Gas 

Bill Brown

An emerging technology may potentially provide a new way to slice and dice your landfill gas (LFG) into more marketable products.From Acrion Technologies...

Solid Waste Disposal Trends 

Edward W. Repa

Few things have changed the way solid waste has been managed in the United States more than the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Since its...

8 Ways Gas Projects Will grow 

Shelley Cohen and Brian Guzzone

Section 29 Federal Tax Credits for landfill gas (LFG) projects ended in June 1998. However, LFG's new "green" image and recent industry developments are...

Running for Cover 

Melanie A. Lasoff

With so many alternative daily covers (ADCs) on the market, landfill owners and operators might have a difficult time picking the best equipment for their...

Destined to be Different 

Cheryl L. Dunson

Although it's not flattering to be compared to Mark Furhman from the O.J. Simpson trial while you're representing local governments' interests at a congressional...

EVENTS: Save Your Landfill: Have a Garage Sale 

Dorlene C. Russell

A garage sale can't really help a community reach a 50 percent diversion rate - unless, of course, the garage sale is citywide.Spurred by California's...

Cooperation Saves Millions In Cleanup Costs 

Jane E. Montgomery, Paul F. Munn

Sometimes a foe can become a friend. In cleaning up its Stickney and Tyler landfills, Toledo's discovered that cooperating with local industries is its...

A Superior Approach to Recirculation 

Jay Warzinski, B. Todd Watermolen, Mark J. Torresani and Douglas R. Genthe

Although regulations often encourage dry tombing waste, leachate recirculation continues to surface as a viable landfill option. In fact, the positive...

How to Secure LFG Project Financing 

Herbert C. Muther

Financing a landfill gas (LFG) use project never has been easy. So how can you maximize your chances to secure financing for your project on favorable...

Constructing the Future 

Cheryl L. Dunson

New technology and old mindsets, foreign investors and consolidation - these factors and a myriad of others will continue to affect the shape of solid...

LANDFILLS: A Landfill's Second Career Proves Successful 

Kim A. O'Connell

Increasingly, closed landfills are being converted into recreational areas such as parks and golf courses. Although the unpredictable nature of waste...

The End of An Era 

Kim A. O'Connell

A hundred years ago, New York City faced the 20th century with a confident sense of its place in the industrial world. Consolidating its five boroughs,...

LANDFILLS: Birds Shun Pretreated Waste 

Florian Koelsch and Richard T. Reynolds

Because landfills often are located close to airports, to avoid interfering with air traffic, bird control is important. One control method is to constantly...

Don't Forget the Fundamentals 

Ron Brookshire

Over the past few years, many new recipes for managing landfill gas (LFG) have been created, driven by new regulations, environmental groups, the Not...

Aggressive Compaction: Where the Wheel Meets the Waste 

Lynn Merrill

The difference between achieving a density of 1,200 pounds and 1,500 pounds of compaction may not seem like much at first glance, but over the long haul...

LANDFILLS: Northeast Landfills Reduce Monitoring Costs 

Veronica Foster

One way for landfill owners and operators to reduce costs is by considering the latest options for post-construction landfill monitoring. There have been...

Landfill Containment: Refining The Rules 

Lynn Merrill

When Subtitle D and its stringent requirements for landfill covers and lining systems became effective in 1991, there was concern that these tougher regulations...

LANDFILLS: Partnerships Power LFGTE Project 

Aaron DeWeese

Too many cooks didn't spoil the broth, at least at Elk River Landfill's methane gas collection/electricity generation project. In fact, it was the sprit...

RECYCLING: Chattanooga Landfill Lights Up Recycling Plant 

Michael Fickes

Every minute or so, Chattanooga, Tenn.'s Summitt Landfill belches about 1,000 cubic feet of methane - equal to approximately 1.5 million cubic feet per...

Lay Leachate Lay 

Fred Doran

Landfill owners must manage their leachate, no matter how high the price. For some, like those at Minnesota's Crow Wing County landfill, hauling it to...

Keeping a Lid on Odor 

Lynn Merrill

For most people, the smell of baking bread is pleasant. Conversely, the smell of that bread decaying in a landfill is not. Because solid waste facilities...

LANDFILLS: Landfill Covers Itself with Biosolids 

Marcia Papin and Rebecca West

In Greenville, S.C., solid waste and wastewater management go hand-in-hand. Using biosolids generated by the Western Carolina Regional Sewer Authority...