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Landfills need the strongest protection possible to avoid leakage and groundwater contamination. GSE geomembranes are the leading choice for strong, reliable landfill liners.
Deep-Down Durability

Today’s state-of-the-art landfill liner must satisfy a range of demands, including preventing leakage into groundwater, minimizing wrinkles and providing stability on steep side slopes.

Geocells (also known as Cellular Confinement Systems) are three-dimensional honeycombed cellular structures that form a confinement system when infilled with compacted soil. Extruded from polymeric materials into strips welded together ultrasonically in series, the strips are expanded to form the stiff (and typically textured and perforated) walls of a flexible 3D cellular mattress. Infilled with soil, a new composite entity is created from the cell-soil interactions. The cellular confinement reduces the lateral movement of soil particles, thereby maintaining compaction and forms a stiffened mattress that distributes loads over a wider area. Traditionally used in slope protection and earth retention applications, geocells made from advanced polymers are being increasingly adopted for long-term road and rail load support. Much larger geocells are also made from stiff geotextiles sewn into similar, but larger, unit cells that are used for protection bunkers and walls.