The disposal of the solid wastes in landfill sites should be properly monitored by analyzing samples from soil, water, and landfill gases within the landfill sites. Nevertheless, ground monitoring scheme requires intensive efforts and cost, and sometime it is difficult to be achieved in large geographic extent. Remote sensing technology has been introduced for waste disposal management and moni...

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Landfills are the dominant method of municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal in many developing countries, which extremely susceptible to failure under circumstances high pore water pressure and insufficient compaction. Catastrophic landfill failures have occurred worldwide, causing large numbers fatalities. Tianziling landfill, one largest engineered sanitary landfills China, has experienced mass...

Physical, chemical and bacteriological analyses were carried out of water samples from three boreholes located near a landfill, and or soil samples at Akure, Nigeria, to ascertain the effect of the dumpsite on the groundwater and soil quality. The samples from borehole locations with radial distances of 50, 80, and 100 m, respectively, away from the landfill and twelve soil samples collected at...

Abstract Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a synthetic plastic used in various industrial and commercial applications. EPS popular for its unique physical properties, specifically insulating capabilities low density. These properties become problematic at the end of useful life as cannot be recycled with other conventional plastics. Though possible, recycling often practically or economically prohi...

In Riobamba city from Ecuador, for more than thirty years solid urban waste was placed in an open dump, without gas and leachate control. 2016, the landfill technically closed emerging cell with characteristics of a sanitary built nearby. The Environmental Health Hygiene Management Department Municipal Decentralized Autonomous Government monitors generation, recording 19.24 m3/day young (Type I...

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston is a large academic medical center with about 12,700 employees, 350 radioisotope research labs and 200 permitted radioactive materials users. Consequently, UTMB generates a fairly large amount of radioactive waste. The majority of this waste contains short-lived radionuclides, such as 32P, 33P, and 35S, which are held for decay and then...

The disposal of municipal solid waste into the landfills has been recognized as the major source of soil, surface water and groundwater contamination. Municipal solid waste disposal site for the city of Ludhiana, in Punjab, India, has become an overflowing landfill because of the indiscriminate dumping of solid waste at the site. The leachate produced by landfilling site contains a large amount...

Landfills settle due to its weight and biodegradation of waste. Biodegradation-induced settlement is a direct result of rearrangement of waste skeleton in response to the conversion of waste mass into landfill gases. Traditionally, the compressibility index based on settlement of clays is used to explain the settlement of waste. Literature review showed that there are limited research attempts ...

Selected heavy metals (HMs) including Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn initially released from a full-scale bioreactor landfill were monitored over the first 20 months of operation. At the initial landfill stage, the leachate exhibited high HMs release, high organic matter content (27000-43000gl(-1) of TOC) and low pH (5-6). By the fifth month of landfilling, the methanogenic stage had been establishe...