An overview of landfill leachate treatment via activated carbon adsorption process

Household hazardous waste in municipal landfills: contaminants in leachate.

The impact of landfilling and composting on greenhouse gas emissions – A review

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Enhanced Landfill Mining in view of multiple resource recovery: a critical review

Municipal solid waste management in Nepal: practices and challenges.

Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills worldwide are experiencing the consequences of conventional landfilling techniques, whereby anaerobic conditions are created within the landfilled waste. Under anaerobic conditions within a landfill site slow stabilization of the waste mass occurs, producing methane, (an explosive ‘green house’ gas) and leachate (which can pollute groundwater) over long periods of time. As a potential solution, it was demonstrated that the aerobic degradation of MSW within a landfill can significantly increase the rate of waste decomposition and settlement, decrease the methane production and leachate leaving the system, and potentially increase the operational life of the site. Readily integrated into the existing landfill infrastructure, this approach can safely and cost-effectively convert a MSW landfill from anaerobic to aerobic degradation processes, thereby effectively composting much of the organic portions (one of the potentially polluting elements in a conventional landfill site) of the waste. This paper summarizes the successful results of two separate aerobic landfill projects located in Georgia (USA) and discusses the potential, economic and environmental impacts to worldwide solid waste management practices.

Sid Harper

Papers

The successful demonstration of aerobic landfilling: The potential for a more sustainable solid waste management approach?