In the construction of waste containments there is an economic advantage of using geosynthetics products. As seen in the first picture if you use traditional clay and gravel layers in the landfill you can have about 5000 m3 of volume. But as seen in the second picture if geosynthetics materials are used in the waste disposal area a gain of extra volume will be about ...
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Instead of using traditional (mineral) products if we use geosynthetics materials for the capping of waste disposal areas we may have extra storage. So, to use geosynthetics has economic advantages against the traditional products. Also it is more easy to use geosynthetics (geotextiles, geomembranes, geogrids, geocomposites, geomats). On the picture above you can see a simple comparison of “traditional” mineral- and “geosynthetic” capping of landfills. ...
This pictures shows layers of a typical waste disposal area. Clay base Drain pipes drainage layer sump pump membrane (geomembrane) liner leachate collection waste levelling layer filter layers gas vent seepage drain membrane liners (top) drainage layer (top) Some detailled information about waste capping will be sent in next posts.