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Secure Landfill: Hazardous Waste

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Title: Secure landfill
1. Introduction.
The secure landfill is a special storage design used to handle hazardous waste. Secure landfill is classified under class1 when it compare with other two landfill namely monofills and sanitary. The surface impoundments are the area used to store liquid hazardous waste and it is erected either temporary. The advantages of this storage are cheap and the hazardous waste can be treated in the place without experiencing problem.
The hazardous waste is no longer needed for reuse but hazardous materials are needed for commercial value. Hazardous waste in the landfill is designed as a modular series of three dimensional namely by incorporating separate cells; place in an appropriate cell and cover the entire …show more content…

Social consideration is important because the land has little value and minimal local resistance, table of groundwater are safe.
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3. Source of hazardous waste.
Industrial: The computer manufacturing company has hazardous materials used are includes gold, silica, nickel, aluminium, zinc, iron, petroleum products and about 30 other minerals. The materials provide financial incentives for industrial practices and products that benefit the environment by enhancing sustainability. (Daniel B. Botkin & Edward A.
Keller. p579).
Agricultural waste is the source which produces waste as a pesticides and herbicides which used to kill weeds, fungicides which used to kill fungus in our homes which has ingredient chloropiforus.
Fluoride waste is a by product of phosphate fertilizer production use in the field.
Soluble nitrates from manure may dissolve into groundwater which contaminate drinking water, high levels of nitrates may cause health problem. There are examples cropping farm, dairies, feedlots and orchards. (James R. Mihelcic & Julie B. Zimmerman. P579)
Household waste is the source of hazardous waste which include toxic paints, …show more content…

Monitoring tool needs to be implemented by checking either water is contaminated or not. Resolution: Manufacturing Cartridges Company includes free postage bags for easy recycling. Restricting people from the area where renovation takes place because they will inhale asbestos particles which causes lung disease and cancer.
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Medical waste is the source of hazardous waste
Hospital and clinics use special care in disposing of waste contaminated with blood and tissue. Health workers, Doctors, Nurses, Cleaners must be especially careful with needle, scalpels and glassware called” sharp”.
Pharmacies discard outdated and unused drugs, testing laboratories dispose of chemical waste. The radioactive isotopes used for diagnosis and treatment of patient must be carefully tracked and disposed.
4. Area of hazardous waste control.
The best way to eliminate this waste is not to generate them in the first place. This can be done as a process for example the toxic chlorinated hydrocarbons which are late used in the 1970s, must be replace in the 1980s by less toxic glycol ethers(C2H4) and in 1990s by low toxicity esters and

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