<p>Waste is discarded materials of no further use to the owners and the pattern of its generation is a function of the level of urbanization, industrialization and economic status of society. The most convenient strategy of solid waste disposal is landfill ...

Performance of four different municipal solid waste landfill liner systems, i.e., Subtitle D composite liner system, composite liner system with a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) instead of low permeability compacted soil, Wisconsin NR500 liner system, and proposed ...

Many states allow construction of landfills over previously mined areas. However, mitigation of the underground mines by filling or removal is often required prior to landfill construction. A settlement analysis for the proposed vertical expansion of a residual ...

This paper describes characteristics of tailings ponds, highlighting situations and events that weaken such facilities, and provides a method for calculating the destructive capacity of tailings flow slides from failed facilities.

<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has collected and reported data on the generation and disposal of waste in the United States for more than 30 years. We use the information to measure the success of waste reduction and recycling programs across ...