A sanitary landfill is a place intended for the final disposal of waste or garbage, in which multiple measures are intended to be taken to reduce the problems generated by another method of garbage treatment such as landfills, such measures are, for example, the meticulous study of environmental , economic and social impact from planning and choosing the site to monitoring and studying the site throughout the life of the landfill.

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To build a sanitary landfill it is important to select the land that meets the appropriate technical conditions such as: topography, groundwater level and availability of material to cover the garbage.

In a sanitary landfill, as the garbage is placed, it is compacted with machinery and covered with a layer of earth and other materials to later cover it with a layer of earth that is around 40 cm thick and on this place another layer of garbage and so on until the sanitary landfill is considered saturated.

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It is an engineering method for the disposal of solid waste on the ground in a way that protects the environment, by spreading the waste in small layers, compacting it to the smallest practical volume and covering it with soil at the end of the work day. preventing adverse effects on the environment.