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Landfill & Recovery
Our Landfill solutions cover the entire life cycle of landfill facilities: design, construction, operation, maintenance, and energy recovery.
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Reduce the carbon footprint of non-hazardous waste storage facilities
Through the Green Landfills, we offer non-hazardous waste management with a positive impact on the climate and natural capital, adapted to all contexts.
This management must result in zero CH4 emissions from the decomposition of waste, no leachate discharged, no plastic release into nature.
Green Landfills contribute to the circular economy by recovering green energy for biogas production, which can be fed back into natural gas distribution networks or electricity and heat production.
Biogas comes from the anaerobic fermentation of organic matter from waste stored in lockers and covered. It is collected through wells and then prepared before being recovered in cogeneration. Electricity is recovered using a specific engine for biogas and requires dehumidification and activated carbon filtration beforehand.
In addition to energy production, Green Landfills offer many advantages:
- Production of water from treated leachate, which can be reused for agriculture or industry
- Protection of natural capital (soil, water) and biodiversity through the remediation of the site, the preservation of fauna on the centre's right-of-way (wetlands, nesting sites, etc.), the elimination of leachate discharges into the natural environment
- Job creation
- Contribution to public health, by preventing fires, aerosols and the release of solid waste into the environment
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SUEZ fights global warming in Morocco with the elimination and valorisation center
Credit: SUEZ group
Frequently Asked Questions
Poor waste management has harmful consequences for our environment:
- Air pollution: Waste pollutes the air we breathe, leading to respiratory illnesses and death.
- Water pollution: Waste pollutes the waters we drink and the oceans, leading to a deterioration of biodiversity. At sea, waste can be ingested by marine fauna.
- Soil pollution: Waste pollutes the soils on which we grow our food, even making them sterile.
Good waste management makes it possible to avoid all this pollution, by preventing its dispersion in the environment and by capturing all the discharges related to its treatment.
Recycling saves virgin resources. Avoiding the production of virgin materials means that nearly 68% of greenhouse gases are not emitted into the environment.
To reduce the carbon footprint of waste, the ideal is not to produce it. Or at the very least, to enter the circular economy: promote recycling and develop the use of recycled materials in new products.