LAWMAC: LGI – Maximising Landfill Airspace through Collaboration

Collaboration helps councils achieve best practice landfill operations reaping environmental and financial benefits.

Scott, LGI Power Generation and Field Technician, says there’s science behind what happens at landfills. Widely known as the ‘landfill whisperer’ he’s in demand to help councils optimise their landfilling practices.

“The three major issues with managing landfills are airspace, leachate, and compliance. I explain what Councils need to do and show them how.” Scott says.

His role at LGI covers five landfill sites from Gladstone to the Fraser Coast. Scott looks after sites with flares and some with power generators, to combust and destroy methane to abate carbon.

Scott manages each site carefully, monitoring remotely and via planned site visits. There are many variables including waste composition, climate and moisture that impact landfills.

In 2016, LGI proposed a biogas capture and carbon abatement project for the University Drive landfill site.

Scott worked with the council to help optimise landfilling practices. The council has increased its maximum waste density by 20% of their Cedars Road landfill just by ensuring there was a proper compaction pattern.

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