Combined Science GCSE
Landfill
What Landfill means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
The burial of waste on land, where decomposition produces methane and can produce leachate.
A source of methane where capturing the gas lowers emissions instead of releasing it.
Topics that use Landfill
- The carbon footprint and its reduction (AQA GCSE)
- Waste management (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Acid rain
- Carbon dioxide equivalent
- Carbon footprint
- Combustion
- Eutrophication
- Finite resources
- Greenhouse gas
- Nitrogen oxides
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