Case 4 High Acres Landfill
Case 4: High Acres Landfill
To have an effective design, the organization or the company must generate an excellent idea that have undergone a feasibility study to ensure the functionality of the product or service. If the company is able to match what attributes consumers are looking for, and that the said attributes surely give satisfaction and delightful feeling to the consumers, then we can say that the product or service being offered by the organization or the company holds a distinctive competency over competition. Moreover, the organization must also have a strategic capacity planning to ensure that it would meet future demands and would not affect the long-term commitment with consumers. Likely, does the organization have the design and effective capacity.
One example of a company that exhibits an excellent strategic capacity planning is the High Acres Landfill in Fairport New York. The landfill was first opened in public during 1971 at a 218-acre diameter. Before, the landfill receives roughly 3,000 tons of waste per day and has only 27 employees. Now, known to be owned and controlled by the Waste Management Inc., the landfill operates approximately on a 1,000-acre site and is focused on sustainability through recycling and renewable energy production. The landfill is being funded by fees paid by households who gave away their trashes.
Modern landfilling works in a systematic process. The management first digs a hole—like a tub—and wastes are being dumped there with daily cover of soil of about 6 inches. When the hole is eventually filled and exhausted, now forms a hill, the landfill is being planted with grass. The site is usually converted into ecopark. Within the said park are recreational activities. As times goes by, the piled wastes decompose and emit a methane gas that is somehow harmful to the environment. That is why, the Waste Management Inc. ensures that top, bottom, sides and
every layer of waste dumped into the landfill are guarded by
To have an effective design, the organization or the company must generate an excellent idea that have undergone a feasibility study to ensure the functionality of the product or service. If the company is able to match what attributes consumers are looking for, and that the said attributes surely give satisfaction and delightful feeling to the consumers, then we can say that the product or service being offered by the organization or the company holds a distinctive competency over competition. Moreover, the organization must also have a strategic capacity planning to ensure that it would meet future demands and would not affect the long-term commitment with consumers. Likely, does the organization have the design and effective capacity.
One example of a company that exhibits an excellent strategic capacity planning is the High Acres Landfill in Fairport New York. The landfill was first opened in public during 1971 at a 218-acre diameter. Before, the landfill receives roughly 3,000 tons of waste per day and has only 27 employees. Now, known to be owned and controlled by the Waste Management Inc., the landfill operates approximately on a 1,000-acre site and is focused on sustainability through recycling and renewable energy production. The landfill is being funded by fees paid by households who gave away their trashes.
Modern landfilling works in a systematic process. The management first digs a hole—like a tub—and wastes are being dumped there with daily cover of soil of about 6 inches. When the hole is eventually filled and exhausted, now forms a hill, the landfill is being planted with grass. The site is usually converted into ecopark. Within the said park are recreational activities. As times goes by, the piled wastes decompose and emit a methane gas that is somehow harmful to the environment. That is why, the Waste Management Inc. ensures that top, bottom, sides and
every layer of waste dumped into the landfill are guarded by