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Detection of Pollution Caused by Solid WastesTo develop a means of detecting pollution, it s necessary to know something about the source and nature of the pollution. The type of pollution rising from solid wastes differs considerably from hat from liquid wastes or that from gaseous wastes ni its effect on the immediate environment. It may be "defined" by a series of negatives. When solid wastes are discarded on land, the resulting pollution is not land pollution in the sense of air and water pollution. For one thing, the solid wastes do not become a "part" of the land in that the wastes are neither intimately mixed nor homogenized into the land as are liquid and gaseous wastes into their respective media. The waste particles retain not only their chemical identity but also their visible (i.e., physical) characteristics. When buried, for example, the soil is under, above, and around the solids, because the wastes are there as discrete units. Secondly, solid wastes neither diffuse nor are they carried from the place at which they were deposited. In other words they remain stationary, providing of course the disposal site is land and not moving water. In a given area, solid wastes be not distributed uniformly over that area. Even the solid wastes falling into the specification of letter meets these specifications. In contrast liquid and gaseous wastes become intimately mixed, homogenized, and even dissolved in their media. Because solid wastes remain stationary, pollution constituted by their presence is highly localized and heavily concentrated, even to the extent that the pollution could be termed "micro" when compared to the macro-pollution arising from liquid and gasequs wastes.
Document ID
19990115757
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Golueke, Clarence G.
(California Univ. Berkeley, CA United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
November 8, 1971
Subject Category
Environment Pollution
Report/Patent Number
AIAA Paper 71-1041
Meeting Information
Meeting: Sensing of Environmental Pollutants
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: November 8, 1971
End Date: November 10, 1971
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Chemical Society, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA Headquarters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Instrument Society of America
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Public
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