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A garbage landslide [1] is a man-made event that occurs when poorly managed garbage mounds at landfills collapse with similar energy to natural landslides.These kinds of slides can be catastrophic as they sometimes occur near communities of people, often being triggered by weather or human interaction. [1]
Solid waste landfills can be affected by seismic activity. The tension in a landfill liner rises significantly during an earthquake , and can lead to stretching or tearing of the material. [ 1 ] The top of the landfill may crack, and methane collection systems can be moved relative to the cover.
For a long time, it was believed that paper is a relatively safe and environmentally friendly waste product, degrading quickly in landfills. Rathje showed, however, that paper is typically a bad degrader: newspapers dumped in landfills as much as over half a century ago, turn up again as fresh and as readable as the day they were issued. [2]
On 11 March 2017, a garbage landslide at the Koshe Garbage Dump in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia killed 115 people. [1] Koshe (alternatively spelled Quoshee or Repi), derived from the Amharic word for 'dirty', had hundreds of people living in unincorporated communities beneath the 50-year-old garbage dump's unstable mounds.
The act established a framework for states to better control solid waste disposal and set minimum safety requirements for landfills. [4] In 1976 Congress determined that the provisions of SWDA were insufficient to properly manage the nation's waste and enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Congress passed additional major ...
A landfill [a] is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s.
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A 10-year study done at the SENT landfill in Tai Chik Sha in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, shows that plant and tree species could survive following the restoration of a landfill. [3] The site was initially lined with a multilayer composite bottom layer, then had a landfill gas and leachate collection system incorporated, and was covered by a final ...