New Landfill Technology Offers Green Solutions

(Dublin, OH) An Ohio company has come up with a way to control what happens in a landfill, to ensure "greener" outcomes.
Viridis Waste Control has patented Bioreactor Landfill Technology that it thinks is the best technology for solid waste disposal landfills.
The technology reduces greenhouse gasses, delivers greater air and water pollution reduction, and increased methane production and recovery from landfills.
Additionally, company's method enables more useable capacity in landfills for solid waste disposal.
How does it work?
The technology combines the waste pumped from septic systems with garbage in solid waste landfills. This accelerates the process of garbage decomposition and biodegradation, and extends the life of typical landfills by years.
Benefits to the environment go further, including:
- Cleaner water, by reducing and hopefully eliminating the practice of spreading septic waste on fields, which often contaminates surface water, lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater recharge zones with dangerous contaminants and pathogenic biological agents commonly found in septic tank waste.
- Safer food supply, by halting the land application and spraying of septic waste for disposal onto farm fields, a major source of bacteriological contamination of crops and livestock.
- One of the ways food or water become contaminated is from the release of such untreated sewage - septic tank waste - into a drinking water supply or onto cropland. People who unknowingly eat or drink the contaminated sources of food and water become infected with disease.
- In developing countries, most sewage is routinely discharged into the environment, resulting in transmission for infectious agents such as E. coli, hepatitis, cholera, polio, and rotavirus.
- Cleaner air, with the increased capture and use of methane gas, reducing the major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Renewable energy, using the steady supply of methane produced, generating enough energy to power thousands of homes each year.

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