So what exactly are we filling our landfills with and how much is college students fault? Find out the answer to these question and other landfill factoids, including what's so bad about disposable cups.
Find out why landfills are used and potential problems from the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commision.
Landfills without liners have proven to cause contamination to groundwater and surface water. The contaminatin is so significant that the Southeast region of Massachusetts has decided to close unlined landfills.
The Environmental Protection Agency is a government agency that has duties which include providing regulations to protect groundwater and prevent pollution from inadequately designed landfills. Thier landfills page provides links to other interesting sites including, the internet environmental library and information about how to make money raising earthworms.
Teachers and students can get much information about how the goverment cleans up sites where landfills have been managed poorly by checking out the Superfund site.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer systems that combine different layers of remotely sensed and other information to produce a complete overview of an area. GIS systems are being utilized in Lebanon to manage landfills.
General Info About Landfills...
Landfills Abraham Michaels
Site Selection
Hazards in Your Trash...and What to do About Them
Info about landfill liner leak detection...
Geophysical Solutions to Problems of
Waste-Containment
Detecting Leaks Electronically
Detecting Leaks in Geomembranes
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