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A laboratory study of the compaction characteristics of disposable diapers in a landfill

✍ Scribed by K.L. Light; D.G. Chirmuley; R.K. Ham

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
482 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0921-3449

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✦ Synopsis

This investigation was undertaken to examine the compaction characteristics of used disposable diapers in a landfill. A standard mixture of solid wastes containing various amounts (between 0 up to 15% by wet weight) of used disposable diapers were compacted in eight randomly ordered tests and the densities of the compacted waste for the applied pressures were noted. Analyses of variance (two-way fixed effects) and simple linear regression were carried out on the data and F-tests were applied. The results showed that the diapers do not take up volume in a landfill which could be taken up by other materials but merely fill in the voids around the more rigid items when the diapers constitute less than 10% (wet weight) of the total mix.

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