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China's mega-dump already full - 25 years early
China's largest dump is already full - 25 years ahead of schedule.
The Jiangcungou landfill in Shaanxi Province, which is the size of around 100 football fields, was designed to take 2,500 tonnes of rubbish per day.
But instead it received 10,000 tonnes of waste per day - the most of any landfill site in China.
[...] The Jiangcungou landfill in Xi'an city was built in 1994 and was designed to last until 2044.
The landfill serves over 8 million citizens. It spans an area of almost 700,000 square metres, with a depth of 150 metres and a storage capacity of more than 34 million cubic metres.
Until recently, Xi'an was one of the few cities in China that solely relied on landfill to dispose of household waste - leading to capacity being reached early.
Earlier this month, a new incineration plant was opened, and at least four more are expected to open by 2020. Together, they are expected to be able to process 12,750 tonnes of rubbish per day.
The move is part of a national plan to reduce the number of landfills, and instead use other waste disposal methods like incineration.
The landfill site in Xi'an will eventually become an "ecological park".
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 22 2019, @10:59AM (1 child)
Why don't the Dutch and Bangladeshis accept the world's rubbish? They are concerned about rising sea levels and need to build up their lands. They get paid to accept the material so that's a lot more cost-effective than paying others to acquire fill. Plus, as a Soylentil once pointed out, today's landfills are tomorrow's gold mines; it would be a smart long-term move.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @06:25PM
There are a few reasons they put parks on old landfills instead of housing developments. Besides toxicity issues, the main one is that stuff compacts as it breaks down and most rigid structures don't do well with unevenly moving soil.
Besides if you're trying to build up to avoid sea level, most of the trash must be going in below the water line, which wouldn't seem to help anything - toxic leaching into ground-water, or stability of the dump.