Landfill mining definition

Landfill mining means the process of excavating solid waste from an existing landfill.
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Landfill mining means the process of excavating solid waste from an existing landfill. , but does not include excavation of waste to facilitate installation of landfill gas, leachate management, or other utility systems provided waste excavated is managed and cover installed in accordance with 9VAC20-81-140 or 9VAC20-81-160, as applicable.
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Related to Landfill mining

  • Landfill means a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action management unit.

  • Landfill Gas means any gas derived through any biological process from the decomposition of waste buried within a waste disposal site.

  • Landfill cell means a discrete volume of a hazardous waste landfill which uses a liner to provide isolation of wastes from adjacent cells or wastes. Examples of landfill cells are trenches and pits.

  • Underground mining means all methods of mining other than surface mining.

  • Sanitary landfill means a disposal facility for solid waste so located, designed and operated that it