How gases and liquids are drained from landfills

We all know that rotting garbage is stinky, and it's even worse when it's wet. So you can bet it is sickening when it rains on mounds of garbage.

[randomlyentertaining]

Just stopped by because I'm starting a job as one of the guys that monitor and maintain those wells in a few weeks and wanted to get an idea of why the job exists. Kinda neat that, technically, landfills recycle a substantial chunk of the garbage in them into something we can use to heat our homes and create electricity.

[dandavatsdasa]

A Stitch in Time saves Nine.

Inch by Inch it's a Cinch.

Thank you for sharing informative videos!

[-immaculatemukisa]

Thanks for the help 😅 I have been looking for the answers

[Horsekicktimes]

I design landfill gas collection system. We're moving toward renewable natural gas where gas are collected, processed, and sold as green.
Many landfill will collect gas and burn it at the flare station, but that will soon be a thing of the past.

[thornyturtleranch]

SE louisiana at denham springs and watson on i12 smells so bad and disgusting it will make you sick when driving on the interstate. I have no idea how people can live in that area, no idea.

[tomasadorno]

Methane can be used on a sterling engine from Austria to generate 6 kwatts of power imagine various engines?

[logans]

Here’s an idea, what if we just stopped burying our valuable resources?

Organic can be composted, metals can be reshaped, as can glass, plastic is nearly worthless but we can figure something out there (stop making so much plastic)

Especially metals though

[mtzrkph]

Collected and sold you say.. that's interesting. I'm actually in a landfill right now and what prompted me to look up this video is that this particular landfill who shall remain Walkers, collect the gas and then from what it appears here, simply burns it off. What a waste.

[SecFoSwag]

Immediately searched to see if Steve O or some idiot has drank leachate lmao

[hunting]

If the landfill is flooded with leachate, will the gas escape and cause fire in the landfill ? Is it better to just burn the garbage in the incinerator ?

[juskahusk]

Is it not also the case that sulphur is produced which has a cooling effect on the climate by reflecting sunlight back into space?

[Emeritus-wkti]

We have been taking advantage of this process to produce bio Methane n agricultural inputs

[AllanLoveJr]

Oh what mankind has done to this poor planet. It’s all about profits.

[Agui]

Hang on, what about all those plastic bags, rubber tyres, metal, glass etc that all laid buried in the ground?

[stevybryan]

Sedementation is key and making somerging chemically on quantam mechanics and bio mechanics where you can turn rubbish into sedemements and back into ground. Those pipes can be used as as a sprinkler system to release a good chemical and turn rubbish into sedementation

[Johnpalmer-eqyq]

Floor. Pot. You live in it actually look at one. Now poor some water

[KevanleeRice]

Bcs landfill power fpk plant in psj know hiw i jnow tgat i biolt it

[Bri]

And this is why I wouldn’t want to work in one.

My father got Parkinson’s (only one I know from his 8 siblings to have it and he is the YOUNGEST of ALL of them.)

He was a garbage truck driver for over 25 years.

Not saying it was 100% the landfill’s fault, but we will never know if it was or not because it would be an IMPOSSIBLE fight in court or proven otherwise.

I guess companies have their lawyers in order and people who work in landfills are very few compared to other occupations. And it depends on what is being researched.

Remember, where there is leachate, there is also TCE. Which is not only known to cause cancer, but also numerological disorders. It also easily can go to organs from drinking it AND breathing air from the soil being wet from rain and heated from warmer days.