Landfills then and now
You won't be able to find rubbish dumps for a long time; today rubbish dumps have a different appearance than they did at the end of the last millennium.
Landfills - the oldest form of waste concealment
- Landfill is the oldest form of waste handling. Here, in many parts of the world, efforts have been made and continue to be made to remove waste from the producers' surroundings. After accumulating a corresponding amount of garbage, a landfill is compacted, sealed and largely left to its fate.
- Except for the flaring of the methane gases or their use in special power plants and the control of the seepage water drainage, the garbage is left to its own devices. Since it is difficult to bury and forget about landfills in the long term, Germany no longer relies on landfills as a repository for household waste.
- Even if landfills could be used for a new purpose afterwards through greening, These sealed off and protected landfills nevertheless pose an unknown threat to the environment represent.
- Since the 1st In June 2005, the landfill of untreated household waste is no longer permitted in Germany. This means that since that date only slag from waste incineration plants has been disposed of in landfills. With this form, permanent checks of the landfills are largely dispensed with.
The volume to be stored decreases considerably due to the previous incineration of the waste. It is well known that the waste incineration has a new impact on the environment, but it is probably accepted as a lesser evil.
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The value of the garbage of days gone by is now being researched
- In the past - long before the invention of the dual system - all household waste was sent to landfill for storage. It was precisely the switch to waste incineration that gave rise to ideas for alternative fuel production. And so one thought in the ranks of those responsible on the waste products from petroleum processing slumbering in landfills.
- Before the waste was separated, all rubbish ended up on the landfill, including plastic waste and all plastic bags. With energy prices rising steadily, researchers saw a way to get hold of coveted raw materials by simply digging them up from already sealed landfills.
- With today's technology, all metals and other reusable materials left in the garbage can be recycled. The hoped-for income from the unrecognized values stored in German landfills are estimated to be in the double-digit billions.
- This prospect has already aroused desires and led to the fact that the first landfill sites have already been opened and the usability of the raw materials stored in them is currently being examined.
However, it is unlikely that you will soon be carrying your goods home in a shopping bag made from these old raw materials. Earlier plastic bags were made from a different plastic and will probably have to be recycled in thermal form and served as fuel.
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