Charlotte Scheutz

TL;DR: Additional research and technology development is needed before methane mitigation technologies utilizing microbial methane oxidation processes can become commercially viable and widely deployed.

TL;DR: The results showed that residual household waste mainly contained food waste and miscellaneous combustibles and the individual percentage composition of food waste, paper, and glass was significantly different between the housing types, indicating that housing type is a critical stratification parameter.

TL;DR: The most important parameters controlling oxidation in landfill cover soil were found to be temperature, soil moisture, and methane and oxygen supply, and higher ammonium concentrations inhibited the oxidation process.

TL;DR: Large discrepancies were found in the selection of the environmental emissions to be included and how they were estimated in the analysis, and consolidation of the modelling approach in the following area are recommended: quantification of fugitive gas emissions and modelling of disposal practices.

TL;DR: Mass balance calculations using the maximal oxidation rates obtained demonstrated that landfill soil covers have a significant potential for not only methane oxidation but also cometabolic degradation of selected volatile organics, thereby reducing emissions to the atmosphere.