What is a Sanitary Landfill?

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Aakruti Modi asked 6 years ago

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What is a Sanitary Landfill?

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What is a Sanitary Landfill?

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Municipal solid waste treatment and disposal has become a serious concern in all developing and developed cities across the world. For proper disposal and treatment of municipal solid waste on land sanitary landfill sites are used.

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Team GreenSutra® Staff answered 6 years ago

A site that is used to dispose municipal waste in a controlled manner can be referred to as a Landfill Site.

Landfills where solid waste is isolated from the environment till it is safe are known as Sanitary Landfills.

Sanitary Landfill sites have :

Barriers at the bottom that prevent the groundwater from contaminating from leachate.
Well buried and compacted layers of waste and soil
A layer of synthetic barrier or liner or clay in order to prevent water from entering
Final topsoil cover that is placed, compacted and graded, and various forms of vegetation may be planted in order to reclaim the otherwise useless land.