Operation Rubbish: Limited Land Resources

 Hello World! 

 Last Saturday, I visited the Glendale Scholl Canyon Landfill. I learned that the garbage industry is money driven, landfill employees do care about recycling ♻️, that trash can produce energy, and last but not least our land resources are limited!

Rubbish Operations

 When you dump a load of garbage, you have to pay for that trash. On the flip side, there are numerous things a landfill has to pay.There is the constant need for managing garbage (25 ft. layer), covering it with dirt (18 ft. layer), water truck wetting the dirt roads, someone pulling large item recyclables that customers do not recycle, bird operations setting off whistling pete fireworks, etc. 

The tires, big plastics, and metals are pulled out if possible in order to recycle. Tires are reusable not recyclable. There is another company for shredding the tires and placing back into tar or asphalt uses. The big plastics and metals are gathered by the landfill employee(s) to recycle. The interview I had with one of the operations managers stated that his household definitely recycles and he finds it very important to do so. 

The methane gas electricity generation is done by a separate entity. There were large pipes all around the landfill to vacuum out the gas and sent to a power plant. The flare pad is highly explosive but they have safety procedures for this. 

Overall, now that we are in the year 2015, landfills are much more organized and energy efficient for cleanliness and safety! But what motivates people to recycle?  I believe seeing the landfill shows we have limited land resources. If there is any motivation in recycling, it's to serve and give our future generations a chance at having land! You lose a landfill once it meets a height capacity! So please! Let's keep on keeping on the reduce, reuse, recycle ♻️ movement. 

"Serving others a thousand years from today." ♻️✌

-HD

P.S.- I'm very appreciative of the tour I was given at the landfill. Check out some photos I took. 

The Earth Mover 

Flare Pad, one of the places where they gather methane gas. 

The main header piping for vacuuming up methane gas. 

You can perch but you can't eat the garbage.

♻️One employee was pulling metals from the day's loads for recycling. (see an old gym work out set)