Modern Landfill Disposal
New England Organics offers reliable backup and disposal options for many residuals using a network of modern landfills. Modern landfills are designed using the best available technology to manage a variety of waste streams while protecting human health and the environment.
These "best available" technologies continue to evolve. The next design evolution of the modern landfill is the "Bioreactor". It produces energy! As we learn more about harnessing the gases produced, it becomes obvious that landfills will be more than just places to dispose of waste materials.
In the past, many landfills were designed as "dry tombs" with an impermeable liner on the bottom and one on the top to essentially seal the waste into a tomb. The bioreactor facilities are much more sophisticated, they actually have desired recipes of waste streams to produce optimum amounts of gas that can then be processed into usable energy. In addition, many of these bioreactor landfills will recycle their leachate, lessening the need for collection and treatment.
New England Organics and our parent company, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. are committed to advancing technologies that can beneficially impact the way waste materials are managed. With these advances, we see a synergy between benificial use and disposal of organic residuals.
The public's demand for energy is not diminishing. Sustainable energy solutions, such as modern landfills, will likely play a growing part in meeting new energy demands now and into the future. What was once considered wasteful disposal may become part of an overall sustainable energy solution. To learn more go to
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