Landfilling, as a system to discard municipal waste, is still widely used in the tropics, often without appropriate protection against pollution of its surroundings. Leachate generation from landfills, and its chemical composition, varies widely and is significantly influenced by landfill geometry, the type and age of waste, seasonal precipitation, moisture and temperature. In the tropics, clim...

A large volume of slag is annually produced by the ferrochromium industry and the slag has historically been dumped without any pollution prevention, control or remediation measures. The slag at the ASSMANG Chrome Machadodorp (ACM) plant in Mpumalanga (where this case study was conducted) contains elements that may pose a significant threat to human life and the environment. The objectives of t...

abstract background: leachate produced by waste disposal sites can be contaminating groundwater. the contamination vulnerability and groundwater protection assessment has proved to be an effective tool for the delineation of protection zones in area affected by groundwater contamination. the main objective of the study is to evaluate aquifer pollution vulnerability in the new waste disposal sit...

Municipal solid waste landfill site selection for the city of ŞanliurfaTurkey: an example using MCDA integrated with GIS M. Irfan Yesilnacar a , M. Lütfi Süzen b , Başak Şener Kaya c & Vedat Doyuran b a Department of Environmental Engineering, Harran University, Şanliurfa, Turkey b Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey c Colorado School of Mines,...

Pandoraea pnomenusa RB-38 is a bacterium isolated from a former sanitary landfill site. Here, we present the complete genome of P. pnomenusa RB38 in which an oxalate utilization pathway was identified. The genome analysis suggested the potential of this strain as an effective biocontrol agent against oxalate-producing phytopathogens.

The purpose of the paper is to assess the groundwater quality near the landfill sites using landfill water pollution index (LWPI). In order to investigate the scale of groundwater contamination, three landfills (E, H and S) in different stages of their operation were taken into analysis. Samples of groundwater in the vicinity of studied landfills were collected four times each year in the perio...

Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) have been employed to degrade biorefractory organic matters. This study investigates the combination of classical Fenton reaction with electrochemical oxidation, the electro-Fenton process, for the treatment of semi aerobic landfill leachate, collected from Pulau Burung Landfill Site (PBLS), Penang, Malaysia. The investigation has been carried out in batch re...

Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate the concentration of metals (lead, cadmium, chromium, copper, and nickel) in the landfill leachate and heavy metals in wells downstream of municipal solid waste landfill site in the city of Mashhad. Methods: In both winter and summer seasons in 2009 samples were collected from five wells that were in landfill downstream in Mashhad. Resul...

MCDA-GIS integrated approach for optimized landfill site selection for growing urban regions: an application of neighborhood-proximity analysis Yashon O. Oumaa,b∗, Emmanuel C. Kipkorirc and Ryutaro Tateishia aCenter for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; bCivil and Structural Engineering, Moi University, Eldoret 30100, Kenya; cEnvironmental Planning & Manageme...

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