In ecosystems, compost is useful for erosion control, land and stream reclamation, wetland construction, and as landfill cover ( see compost uses ).

As concern about landfill space increases, worldwide interest in recycling by means of composting is growing, since composting is a process for converting decomposable organic materials into useful stable products.

The lowest points are along the lake shore at, while the highest point, at, is a landfill located in the Hegewisch community area on the city's far south side.

landfill or wastewater treatment plant, with a reciprocating engine or a microturbine, which is a small gas turbine.

The island, largely artificially created through landfill, is situated on the New Jersey side of Upper New York Bay.

It is estimated that most mass-produced shoes require 1000 years to degrade in a landfill.

Clay, being relatively impermeable to water, is also used where natural seals are needed, such as in the cores of dams, or as a barrier in landfills against toxic seepage ( lining the landfill, preferably in combination with geotextiles ).

" In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action management unit ( 40 CFR 260. 10 ).

The streets of Boston, Massachusetts may seem as though they were not planned — a common fiction is that they evolved from old cowpaths — but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century.

Located in Apex is the Apex Landfill which at is the largest landfill in the United States.

Bio gas is practically produced as landfill gas ( LFG ) or digested gas.

Landfill gas is produced by wet organic waste decomposing under anaerobic conditions in a landfill.

This gas builds up and is slowly released into the atmosphere if the landfill site has not been engineered to capture the gas.

The landfill, approved to triple in size in 2007, is the subject of complaints by neighbors of operating violations, such as large areas of open trash and blown litter, leachate breaks which contaminate area residential wells and flow into Deer Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, and increased health problems.

At present, the solid waste disposal is at the sanitary landfill site, which may become inadequate soon.

* Waste Reduction – Shredding waste material generally reduces waste volume by up to 75 %, which, for the remaining material that reaches landfill, is much less robust and takes up less room in fill.

Waste Management operates a landfill in Tullytown that is largely the receptacle of out-of-state waste in the USA ( receiving much of New York City's waste following the closure of Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, NY away ).

The waste is transported by road to the Edmonton Solid Waste Incineration Plant or to landfill sites in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.

The bulk of the work is currently being undertaken by volunteers for Groundwork London, a government quasi non-governmental organisation funded largely through a levy on landfill.

After British Airways planned to create a new headquarters in 1992, the airline agreed to restore a former landfill site to what is now the moor.

In one case in Benicia, California, a housing tract was built over an old landfill.

The city reclaimed landfill property on the high banks of the Ohio River and dedicated it to the development of three regulation fields, two for Little League ( boys 6-12 ) and one for " Pony League " ( boys 12-15 ), called Park Field.

Salem is host to Veolia Environmental Services landfill, one of the largest landfills in the state.

If not, one has paid the fee, and presumably this can pay for landfill or litter control measures that dispose of diapers or a broken bottle.

The City of Atlantic City requested bids for the sale of the property in the northern section of the city near the marina, which at one time served as the city's landfill.

Just outside Gerrards Cross, on the A40 to Beaconsfield, is one of the UK's largest landfill sites.

To the south of Mount Vernon is the location of Greenoakhill Quarry, one of Europe's largest urban landfill sites, operated by Paterson Quarries Ltd.

The 2012 Commercial Vehicle Show in the UK saw the new JDC PolyBilt design, one of the latest of these " Plastic " bodies that can also be recycled at the end of its service life unlike the traditional GRP which ends up as landfill.

The landfill could likely reach a height of 165 feet ( 50 m ), which would make it not only one of the largest landfills in the state, but also the highest point of elevation in Indiana.

Rathje discusses the rate of closing landfills and how for every six small landfills closed one large landfill opens.

A photograph of one of his angels in a landfill in New Jersey is one of the saddest reminders of the destruction of Penn Station in 1966, but two of his eagles were retained as trophies outside the entrance to the new subterranean Penn Station.

Each household has two waste bins ; one for landfill waste and the other for recycling.

South West Bins Ltd. collects these bins each week with landfill waste being collected one week and recycled waste being collected the next.

The process involved filling in approximately one third of Pelham Bay with landfill, followed by a total of 1. 2 million cubic yards of sand, brought by barge from Sandy Hook, New Jersey and the Rockaways in Queens.

The government eventually authorized the creation of three new landfill sites near Toronto, one of which was located on prime farmland.

It is home to Montagu Bay Primary School, and has two large cricket ovals, one next to the school, and another built on landfill in the bay itself.

Due to its closure, it created a significant waste problem across the region as only one landfill site remains in operation in Val-des-Monts.

The non-methane organic compounds usually make up less than one percent of landfill gas.

At one point it became a landfill and trash piled up to in certain areas.

11 participants, who were not initially informed of their task, must live on a purpose-made rubbish dump adjacent to a working landfill site for 21 days after being left equipped only with a sleeping bag, drinking can and one roll of lavatory paper each.

These environmental problems culminated in a federal clean-up action against a landfill in Oneida County ; the defendants in that case named over local businesses and several municipalities and school districts as third-party defendants The " crisis " extended beyond health and safety concerns.

The community was created by connecting several islands using landfill and was annexed by Boston in 1836.

He wrote several vehement articles in The New Yorker critical of the San Francisco Public Library for sending thousands of books to a landfill, the elimination of card catalogs, and the destruction of old books and newspapers in favor of microfilm.

Coldstream has a local primary school, community centre, landfill and several farms.

The site of Destiny USA was originally a landfill named Marley Scrap Yard, surrounded by several square blocks of oil tanks, collectively named " Oil City ".

Derry's landfill is located here, as is a gravel pit and several sewer pump-stations.

Didcot Power Station itself falls within the boundaries of Sutton Courtenay parish, as do several large quarries that have been used for gravel extraction, and then used for landfill activities taking domestic refuse from London via a separate rail terminal.

Pearl Street generally marks the original eastern shoreline of the lower part of Manhattan Island ; extensive use of landfill over the course of several hundred years has extended the shoreline roughly 700 – 900 feet ( 200-300m ) further into the East River.

About in 1980, a new landfill was selected several miles away, southwest from the town.

Waste materials including thermite, methyl alcohol, several hundred flares and documents from the railroad were discovered in a load delivered to he Edom Hill landfill in Cathedral City on April 23, 2004.