Chemical reactions leading to calcium carbonate scale and the clogging of pipes and pumps is the root cause in almost all landfills. Anyone who has boiled a pot of "hard" water has seen the whitish crusty scale that develops. This is the same type of scale that builds up in leachate lines & pumps. Scaled pumps in a landfill typically present the most common problem. But the leachate lines themselves also present scale clogging issues. The build-up of calcium deposits are made worse by pumps and pipes also getting clogged with silt and mud. As well, hard scale build-up occurs also as a result of the growth of microorganisms in pipes, which lead to reactions that produce scaling mechanisms
I am investigating opportunities to fully automate the Scale Management System at our Solid Waste Facility...The vendor which we use to maintain our Scale Management System recommended I contact SWANA for any guidance you could provide
2 Comments - The City of Saskatoon landfill does have an automated scale that allows select account holders to install RFID tags on their trucks to go through the automated scale and be billed later
After failure to garner sixty votes on industry wide caps on carbon, Senators Kerry and Lieberman, who had led the effort, announced their intentions to focus on a utilities-only cap, which would leave the transportation and manufacturing sectors out of the program for the time being. This scaled back version also failed to attain the sixty votes needed to avoid a filibuster on the Senate floor
We will take them to some smaller rural landfills and facilities that are more in scale with the communities here, and we'll take them on a tour of the Edmonton Waste Management Facility
As I watched the succession of trucks cross the scale, it struck me that these were trucks full of peoples lives that were going by
Last November, I received an urgent call from FBI Special Agent Anna Brewer concerning three small boys that were missing for several days in the Detroit, MI area. One of the options that the FBI was exploring was the possibility that the children were killed and their bodies placed in a...
2 Comments - Our enviromental technician can then "map" the GPS acquired location(s) to aid the law enforcement officers in determining the extent of a search effort - if there is reasonable certainty the evidence was deposited in the landfill - if they would choose to proceed with a search. With GPS data and scale data, we can determine the amount of waste that has been received since the crime occured or was suspected of occuring, and the depth and lateral extent of waste that was compacted around the day's waste cell associated with the date of the crime
While introducing the plan, Secretary for the Environment, Wong Kam-sing, said: “Hong Kong is highly urbanised with a dense living environment in general, and the city has neither the potential… to absorb a lot of food waste nor large-scale infrastructure at present to treat food waste.”
SWANA Technical Policy T-6.1 Updated 01/2014
However, the Senate’s current scaled down energy bill will not include this Standard or any other significant incentives for renewable energy sources