Solid Waste, Sewage, Hazardous, & Other Wastes — 100% No Landfills
This page changed with the April 06, 2024 edit.
No More Toxic Time-Bombs
When learning from Nature, we re-purpose and re-process all waste toward other uses.
Every State will have at least one, 100% waste recovery and reuse facility processing all wastes from residential, commercial industrial, biological, institutional, governmental, and other source waste generators, including the emptying of all known landfills and dumpsites. States with larger populations will have more than one facility depending on population and tonnage generated.
Each smaller, satellite processing facility handles at least 5,000 tons per day with centralized facilities that process at least 50,000 tons per hour. Smaller communities may need only a small transfer station, to save money on equipment that may otherwise be rarely used.
Starting closest to the point generating the waste (residential, commercial, etc.) begin sorting the items to recover the reusable and recyclable items, food waste, non-burnable, non-compost, and or hazardous items as early in the process as possible, so as to reduce cross–contamination of resources. From the point of generation, the sorting and then processing continues aboard the collection vehicle, the receiving stations, and the centralized facilities where it gets sold to industry —completing the cycle.
Source separating materials is preferred in the collection stage from business and residents. From there, recovering the most materials for immediate reuse of those items that are clean (such as papers, cardboard, plastics, etc.) for processing to return to industry for reuse. Soiled papers and soiled plastics can be used in composting and or fuel-pellet production for waste-to-energy within an entirely enclosed operation that recovers all exhaust gasses and ash. This is a green renewable resource —jobs, energy, and raw materials.
Items such as grass, leaves, brush, food waste, etc. are used for composting (with or separated from the sewage sludge and other wastes). In either instance the composting method will determine whether fuel gases can be recovered for other uses (another green renewable resource).
Plant-, microbe-, soil-, water-, air-life and minerals process toxic materials. By finding the critters that thrive in the substance to produce an inert or otherwise usable by-product. This reduces the amount of hazardous waste to deal with and creates other useful industries.
No industry should be commercialized until after we know what to do with all the waste products; returning them to manufacturing, or neutralizing them for return to the soil, water, and or air so that they are cleaner than the standards required for a typical organic farming.