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industrialmete.
row wpaist,s hoe, faiwovere4
following aye "bud-
famine
amt
fam project ,iavoly a oiv
carbOli-based. Waste from industries
near 8aca's Chemical ley.
In field tests near Sunda and m`
Guelph laboratories, a team leU by
land resource scientist Paul
Voroney ;s determined that
methodical management can double
the ` speed of .
f waste break -down at
land treatment si
Although �a variety, of factors is
-involy d in the breakdown of waste,
this research suggests . that
provincial. guidelines governing the.
amount of oily waste that can be
amtliatto4 treaunent site could be
increas°:a5.A.. r cent, providing
the site i pro; an ed_,
Land fanning, ‘tIseS Ate, Jiving
.
microbes' found nl�y�m,o
treat organic waste mutual_ in. • .
cost-effective manner.. ,The soil
PROD
waste
mics cone, the complex
orwinig Wolin( r 1
industrial waste,convening a
dark usable son satinto t .:l
cam' dioxin. -
TYpical land- ann sites are about
Ow =ran . "Small t!tF4=s-coK4ir►1Ulra;ett.
well monitored • and manages says
Vironney,
9iYiC? '.w.•i usually c3i baa, . , iPs la= na 401 us y I la=
refineries- and drained to prevent the
hazard of leaking waste. After a site
expires, the land can be used for
other Poses such as a park or
sports field.
Industries, and land farming
attractive because . it isn't .costly
($20 a ton) co aredawith chemical
waste incineration ($100 to$200'• a
ton) or mixing the waste with.
cement and burying ait at a :landil
site ($50 to $100 a . ton). But
because of therelative newness- of
this form of waste disproval,
industries have not known howto
best manage land
�-tri' ant sites.
'ii+y
'-,Y n --d histeats set out to
h e that, Conv tiionaliy waste
is limit! applied to. treatment
$li a "soli 2 oe ooutQa`Qaec
week trig the 20.week
in ..e 9 n
kD'
C
34 tr°9
4
r'esep■}Qryhersf` ntet'treated
ienedd{q�jbyawading
.
f1Kni. . !t. on the r ..��a•Sd site. .1p
�q 3 9[fdf9q Ara. M ' . i:.�
a► e k the b ea tuna:
process by supplying ,the necessary
nutrients for_ microbe gwtb
mainly narogeu..and phospnoms,
la dnno 'may .:amu .the
teequewy of application y 60 per
cent, ; . which allowed • hem •;m
increase the,volume haus, them
wasmore-time fur soil-manant
techniques .. such as tilling,
monitoring soil nutrient levels and
adjusting moisture content between
applieati .
"'hese ,strata s. made the,site
abletoto
n
, w�m,� waste
break, more � ,
says'Vory:
Thisleseareh is'trsponsored by the
Institute for Chemical Science and
Technology, `wl, • . s to enhance
the, interna'�w' r +l c on�..petiiiveuess' of
the Canadian chemical industry
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(OIAF)oicelg'
i still looking -fora new
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Since the#df planswere started'
fOlif yea* ago, `that. revelation is.
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to the furniture, said.Hutnphries...
- "Promises have been' made• but
nothing 'has followed "through. Its
difficult to find out What's going to
happen.".
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In Lambton County, where a new
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Lambton's facility has "a larges,
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