Modern, highly engineered landfills are lined and sealed with strong, impermeable materials like clay to stop liquid wastes or gases escaping into the environment. But these old sites weren’t lined.
The site has 15.4 acres used as the engineered landfill, 0.49 acres for leachate collection and treatment and an acre for developing a 15-metre-wide green belt. A civic official said, "The agency ...
He further explained that there are two types of landfills present in the UAE —‘engineered landfills’, where trash material is sorted beforehand, and ‘dump sites’, where waste is simply ...