Landfill Management Sector

Present & intended engagement in landfill management sector

Landfills are basically the specific areas or sites where waste materials and garbage are disposed off, on a regular basis. These special sites are constructed for the decomposition of different types of waste, be it industrial or household waste. Degradation of any individual waste containment system component of a landfill after the completion of that component's useful service life may lead to a release of leachate or gas and thus to contamination of groundwater and the atmosphere.

The contaminating life span of a landfill may be defined as the period of time during which the landfill produces contaminants that may have an unacceptable impact if discharged to the environment. To prevent or reduce the above-mentioned negative effects, stringent technical requirements for waste and landfills have already been introduced. Managing the greenhouse gas and leachate emissions from existing operational and closed landfill sites is a task for the present and future generations.

Mck Kutty team has acquired the expertise and have gathered significant experience in this sector, whereby the implementation of state-of-the-art landfill technologies provides a high degree of environmental protection. Proper Landfill management is ensured to handle the waste in a more hygienic way, to limit the amount of hazardous material entering the facility, to stop burning waste in the facility, and to provide protection to surface water and groundwater resources. In the sense of landfill management, the general premise of pretreatment technologies is that treating the waste before final disposal will reduce the volume of waste being landfilled and enhance or accelerate the stabilization of the waste, reducing the long-term disadvantageous effects on the environment.

Instituting Scientific Landfills/ Linking with Waste to Energy initiatives/ Efficient systems to Safe Capping of Landfills.

Modern landfills are highly engineered containment systems, designed to minimize the impact of solid waste on the environment and human health. They are often lined with layers of absorbent material and sheets of plastic to keep pollutants from leaking into the soil and water. They are also called sanitary landfill. In modern landfills, the waste is isolated from the groundwater by a base seal system. The landfill cover systems are designed to prevent or control the intrusion of precipitation into the landfill or the release of landfill gas from the waste. In so-called dry-tomb landfilling, where the incursion of water is avoided, the potential environmental impact of the gas and leachate is minimized by reducing the generation of gas and leachate and their storage within the landfill.

Mck Kutty, has bioreactor landfill as another option to couple with the storage and the treatment of waste containing organic matter. A bioreactor landfill is a special system that is isolated from the environment and that enhances the anaerobic (without oxygen) degradation of refuse by microorganisms. The produced biogas with high methane concentration is recognized as a source of renewable energy and has become very common in recent years.

The science of managing waste has come a long way since the days of unlined “garbage dumps”. Today Mck Kutty is not only working to provide safe and environmentally sound long term waste disposal facilities, but are also continuously improving our technology. The key elements that Mck Kutty has recognized of a typical municipal solid waste landfill are: