Designing environmentally safe and economically feasible landfills can be a challenging engineering task due to complex interactions that need to be taken into account between landfill size, waste and site characteristics. Performance-based landfill design enables the selection of the most appropriate design components and design details of a landfill to obtain the best overall performance with...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Terms as ‘landfill stability’ and ‘final storage quality’ are very often used in discussions about sustainable landfill and groundwater protection at landfills. Internationally accepted definitions of these terms are not available. Consequently there is also no shared notion of sustainable landfill. In a Dutch sustainable landfill project it was proposed that: ‘a landfill is ...

There has been a significant increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in India during the last few decades and its management has become a major issue because the poor waste management practices affect the health and amenity of the cities. In the present study, various physico-chemical parameters of the MSW were analyzed to characterize the waste dumped at Gazipur landfill site in Del...

background due to burgeoning population, solid waste site selection is one of the most crucial issues in waste management system. regarding the complexity of waste management systems, the convenient solid waste site selection involves considering multiple alternative solutions and assessing different criteria. objectives the current study, aimed to select the fuzzy logic method as one of the mo...

We report the soil microbial diversity and functional aspects related to degradation of recalcitrant compounds, determined using a metagenomic approach, in a landfill lysimeter prepared with soil from Ghazipur landfill site, New Delhi, India. Metagenomic analysis revealed the presence and functional diversity of complex microbial communities responsible for waste degradation.

today as the land-filling of solid wastes without taking into consideration the environmental issues would threaten the land greatly, the selection of an appropriate site for hygiene disposal of the wastes is a necessity. analytic hierarchy process (ahp) is one of the most frequently used methods of multiple criteria choices. in site selection of an optimum place fro landfill in the city of bon...

The biological conversion of sulfate from disposed gypsum drywall to hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) in the anaerobic environment of a landfill results in odor problems and possible health concerns at many disposal facilities. To examine the extent and magnitude of such emissions, landfill gas samples from wells, soil vapor samples from the interface of the waste and cover soil, and ambient air sample...