Alternative Waste Treatment Methods: Composting, Anaerobic Digestion, and Pyrolysis
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Composting is the process of making a heap of wetted organic matter and waiting for the materials to break down into humus after a period of weeks or ______

months

The decomposed product of composting, known as compost, can be recycled as a fertilizer and soil ______

amendment

Composting helps reduce or eliminate the need for chemical ______

fertilizers

Composting captures and destroys 99.6 percent of industrial volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) in contaminated ______

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Anaerobic digestion, composting/aerobic digestion, and pyrolysis and gasification are alternative waste treatment ______

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Composting provides cost savings of at least 50 percent over conventional soil, water, and air pollution remediation ______

<p>technologies</p> Signup and view all the answers

______ gas outside the site must not exceed 1 vol% CH4, I vol% H2, 1.5% CO2

<p>Landfill</p> Signup and view all the answers

Passive venting involves highly permeable vent of gravel material or perforated plastic pipe vented to ______

<p>atmosphere</p> Signup and view all the answers

Pumping extraction systems pump the gas out of the landfill, then it is flared or used for energy ______

<p>recovery</p> Signup and view all the answers

Leachate is water passed through the waste plus water generated by ______

<p>degradation</p> Signup and view all the answers

The generation rate of leachate is estimated based on factors like rainfall, amount of rainfall infiltrating to the waste through the cover, and absorptive capacity of the ______

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Drainage system for leachate management contains permeable granular system with perforated pipes to collection ______

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The landfill site is developed, operated and restored in a series of __________

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Within each phase are cells –typically between 3 and 5 m, - weeks or months tipping area. Waste deposited and __________

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Addition of daily __________

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Decomposition processes of biodegradable wastes in landfills: Stage I. Hydrolysis/aerobic __________

<p>degradation</p> Signup and view all the answers

The heat generated can raise the temperature of the waste to up to 70°C-90°C. Carbon dioxide absorbed into water to form- carbonic acid which gives acidity to the __________

<p>leachate</p> Signup and view all the answers

Different micro-organisms, the facultative anaerobes become dominant. Carbohydrates, proteins and lipids are hydrolysed to sugars which are then further decomposed to carbon dioxide, hydrogen, ammonia and organic __________

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