City officials say it has taken them this long to evaluate the challenges of installing wind turbines on the landfill's unique subsurface.
Unique Features At the landfills incoming waste will be dumped into receiving facilities designed to contain waste vapors, control vectors, and house machinery.
Unlike soils, the Gs for MSW was not unique, but varied in a landfill environment due both to physical/mechanical processes and biochemical processes.
We discovered it in 1981 and while it was not the first ship found in a Manhattan landfill, it was the first to be fully excavated, providing a unique example of colonial engineering.
The upshot is that many valuable materials end up in landfills or are melted into new metallic alloys, wasting their unique properties.It would be foolish to underestimate the ability of materials scientists to come up with clever way to do without scarce metals.
Potential participants were not told that the programme would involve living on a landfill, but were instead told that they would be part of "a unique eco-challenge".
In the Almendares River, possible sources include pharmaceutical wastes from factories, inadequate domestic treatment, and a large landfill, but these are not the only sources nor is this situation unique to Havana.
Strengths of this qualitative study include the ability to capture the unique reactions to the WTC disaster from the perspectives of this small sample of landfill and barge workers, an under-examined population.
Although it still throws most of its waste into landfill sites, it is now applying to be one of 25 European "geo-parks" because of its unique geology, which regularly sees bits of dinosaurs turning up on its beaches after storms.
