7.5 Site Equipment and Costs

In order to achieve the best use of land-fills, it is necessary to have the right equipment in place. The necessary equipment is to perform the following tasks:

 levelling and preparation of the site;
 creation of access roads and manoeuvring spaces;
 digging and moving covering material;
 initial handling and segregation of in-coming waste;
 spreading and placing waste in the land-fill;
 covering the waste; and,
 final levelling and top-soil placement.
Invariably the equipment will be:
i) a tracked machine (such as a bull-dozer and loader)
capable of digging, lifting and carrying material;
ii) a scraper for stripping out and stock-piling material;
iii) a drag-line excavator; for preparation and winning covering material from the site;
iv) a four wheel drive rubber tyred loaders for digging out cover and placing it into its final position;
v) a steel wheel mobile compactor for compacting the waste in its final place.

The budget based on these equipments at current prices is 670,000 USD excluding labour and taxes.