Where does waste go? How household waste are managed and disposed

Lifecycle of trash Collection of recycle material

Trash collection Transfer Station

Landfill

Sanitary solar panel landfill

Electicity

Energy Plant ’ Waste to energy plant

Leachate treatment plant Electicity

Heed beds Treated feachate free of ammonia and nitrite

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HERE does our rubbish station. landfill, compacted garbage to water various types of trees go once it leaves our 3. Larger compacted garbage trucks will unload the collected planted near the sanitary landfill W home in garbage trucks? trucks will then be filled with waste into a cell (a hole which with sprinklers daily. 1. Trash is collected from oiir between 16 and 18 tonnes of has been dug and surrounded 8. Landfill gas produced is also homes three times a week by a waste before going to the des­ with HDPE membrane liners) treated to generate electricity designated garbage contractor ignated sanitary landfills (Bukit with a proper leachate drainage as a sustainable source of energy. assigned by our municipal or Tagar in Hulu , in and treatment system. 9. The lifespan of the three sani­ city council. Sometimes, the col­ or Tanjung Dua 6. Leachate is drained into tary landfills in the Valley lectors pick out recyclable items Belas in Kuala Langat). sequential batch reactor lagoons is between 16 and 70 years. from the waste. 4. Prior to the opening of sani­ equipped with aerators to treat Once they have reached their 2. Once they have completed tary landfills, waste collected the leachate collected. It is then full capacity, the landfills can their route, the trucks will travel was dumped at sites that lack conveyed to reed beds (compris­ be turned into different recrea­ to a transfer station. Domestic proper facilities to manage lea­ ing Phragmites plants) which tional spaces. waste from Kuala Lumpur chate and landfill gases which are capable of absorbing residue is usually dropped off at the lead to a host of environmental in the treated leachate to further ■ Find out tomorrow what some Taman Beringin station while in problems such as polluted rivers. improve its quality. sanitary landfills overseas have Selangor, trucks will go to the 5. At the Bukit Tagar sanitary 7. Treated leachate is then used become.