A Field Trip To A Landfill

On May 9th 2014 of a Friday, I went on a class field trip to the Bandlands Landfield located in Moreno Valley. It was a 20 minutes drive from Riverside city county, and basically it was part of Moreno Valleys Mountains (you can visit their web site from here www.rivcowm.org. The real name that they go by is Riverside City Waste Management Department, and they had started up since 1966 as a burning trash site. Because burning trash would pollute the environment, they switched over to landfill in 1970.This landfiled owns 11 hundred acres which is equivalent to 7 Disneyland parks. Bandlands Landfield is consider the end of the line for all trash waste products. A dosser would compact the trash together into a box shape because it is better and safe for the environment. Density and landfill last 120 to 120 feets and invated solution to safing.   There are several monitoring programs such as national Pollutant Discharge and Elimination System, Groundwater Monitoring, Gas Monitoring, and Gas Collection System. 

Riverside City Waste Management Department would normally take in 2200 tons a day, and can be 1 and half houses stack a day. This can be about 150 acers, and 10,000 tons to check each around to not take waste. An interesting fact is a that there are a lot of seahawks flying around the trash, but there is a hawk control man to help with this problem.The hawk man releases the hawk each day, so the hawk can keep the birds away from trash. The Waste Management company also uses a tarp to cover the trash when the day is over because no other ground animals can get into the trash. There is also a cage like fence that can catch the trash before it get out of their site. Then there will be some workers who will clean the fence, so the place can be kept clean. The trash is converted into gas fuels because trash would get buried, turn into liquid, and gets used a burner. The burner would create half methane and dioxide anorabic breaks down and to the land field. More fuel than less dioxide 1,000 or 15,000 to power Southern California Edison it goes to 100 mega watts. It counts to 1.3 millions dollar, and 1 million ahead.There shouldn’t be any drainage such as hazard, methane, and water. Water leaking is the most important for them to make sure there is not drainage of water, so the other places’ water don’t get any polluted water from the landfill. Visiting the main websites on Riverside City Waste Management, you can learn about what they can recycle, what is not good to recycle, fees punishments, and what other landfill sites there are with organization company. Mostly electronic waste, appliances tires, and metals are good recylceable.  The landfill designated as Class 3 facility by Title 27 California Code of Regulations. They are only permitted max tonnage of 4,000 tons per day. Once landfill filled up with trashes, and there is not any more space, they close, nothing goes out of landfill, and everything can be recycled. The linear system layer of landfill structure was 7 for typical bottom liner system, and 5 layers for typical side slope liner system. At times there are inspection on the people monitors the landfills because to see if they are good to keep landfill.

Acceptable Items 

 Solid Waste 

 Household Refuse 

 Yard Trimmings 

 Furniture 

 Tires 

 Appliances (i.e. 

Microwaves, 

Refrigerators, Washers, 

Dryers, etc.) 

 TV’s and Computers 

 Electronic Waste 

Unacceptable Items 

 Hazardous Waste 

 Household Hazardous 

Waste (i.e. Cleaners, 

Chemicals, Pesticides, 

Pool Chemicals, Paints, 

Aerosol Cans, Propane 

Tanks, etc.) 

 Explosives or 

Ammunition 

 Untreated Medical/

Infectious Waste 

(including Sharps) 

 Asbestos (including 

floor tile and roofing 

material containing 

asbestos)