Beijing Sweetens Rubbish With Giant Deodorant Guns 111
An anonymous reader writes "Beijing plans to install 100 deodorant guns at a landfill site on the edge of the city in the hopes that it will dampen complaints about the capital's rubbish crisis.The giant fragrance sprayers will be put in place by May at the Asuwei dump site. From the article: 'Municipal authorities say they will also apply more plastic layers to cover the site in response to furious protests by local residents who have to put up with the stench when the wind blows in their direction. The high-pressure guns, which can spray dozens of litres of fragrance per minute over a distance of up to 50m, are produced by several Chinese firms and based on German and Italian technology. They are already in use at several landfill sites, but they are merely a temporary fix.'"
Spray on reactants instead (Score:4, Interesting)
They should instead spray on biological reactants to absorb odors and/or biodegradation accelerators to speed up the process.
pyrolysis (Score:3, Interesting)
You end up with char, oils, combustible gases, energy and more space.
Re:Spray on reactants instead (Score:3, Interesting)
Rather than any of those options, wouldn't the best option to be to capture that methane and use it as a fuel?
Re:News for Nerds (Score:3, Interesting)
Feeding trolls or not, there are probably some very technical, nerdy solutions to this problem which are way better than "big perfume guns".
There are, though I don't know if they'd qualify for nerdy. Like the "landfill engineer" says, "This ain't rocket surgery." The basics of running a landfill "properly" (as proper as the whole landfill thing can be, at least) were figured out decades ago, including steps to minimize the odor, of which, spraying the pile with hundreds of gallons of perfume isn't one. Of course, many of those steps cost money and require diligence on the part of the operators. So good luck to the downwinders.
Re:Great! (Score:2, Interesting)
I would harvest the methane and when I burn it use it with a turbine system (after removing anything worth anything like aluminum or steel). turn trash into money