FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2003:
Environmental Research and Education Foundation
to
Fund Landfill Leachate Recirculation Project
Alexandria, Va. - During its Annual Meeting on December 11, the Environmental Research and Education Foundation's (EREF) Board of Directors approved funding for a bioreactor landfill project:
$41,351 to Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, to conduct leachate recirculation trials of various recirculation blankets of a bioreactor landfill. The blankets to be tested are made up of (1) crushed glass, (2) shredded tires, and (3) a geocomposite drainage layer. Recirculation blankets are a new design concept that offers economic and operational benefits to conventional leachate recirculation methods that are currently used for bioreactor landfills. Project results are expected in first quarter 2005.
The Environmental Research and Education Foundation is the only independent foundation in the U.S. committed to research, education and science relative to the treatment of municipal solid waste.
For more complete information on EREF, go to its website www.erefdn.org or call 703.299.5139.
Contact: Ed Repa, Director of Environmental Programs
703.299.5139x11 or erepa@erefdn.org
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