Multiple choice

What is Landfill?

In our everyday life, a huge amount of wastes are disposed from different household activities. In addition, there are agricultural wastes, industrial wastes, sewages, dead animals, etc. There are some other ways of disposing these wastes.

  1. It involves the preparation of wastes and decomposing the organic solid wastes by aerobic microorganisms.

  2. It is the cheapest method of disposing waste, which requires a particular amount of land.

  3. This is the combination of two sub processes; combustion and pyrolysis.

  4. In this method, different processes are used like shredding, magnetic isolation of metals, air differentiation, etc.

  5. The wastes are burned and reduced to small particles by rubbing on scattered surface in refractory-lined machinery.
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Explanation

Landfill is the cheapest method of disposing waste, which requires a particular amount of land. It needs 75% of total estimation of waste management. In this method, the disposal is distributed over the selected land in a thin layer and then bulldozer is used to make it compact. When 3m of waste has been spread out, then a clean layer of land is covered which then also compacted.

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