Solid waste disposal comes with many challenges. One of these challenges is landfill space. The City of Springfield, Massachusetts, had to take action on their insufficient landfill capacity in the 1980s. The City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the construction of a waste-to-energy ...
One option to control solids hauling and disposal costs is to further reduce the mass of the solids following digestion through thermal drying. Thermal dryers are often considered for production of a higher-quality biosolids product; however, given the regional market conditions, a more promising ...
Notable safety violations that have been seen include luminous rats in the bowels of the plant, pipes and drums leaking radioactive waste, the disposal of waste in a children's playground, plutonium used as a paperweight, cracked cooling towers (fixed in one episode using a piece of chewing ...