As a developing country, protecting groundwater resources is extremely essential in Sri Lanka. Landfills are one of the main sources of water pollution. The filling of the Gohagoda disposal yard, takes place at a distance about 50m from Gohagoda water intake plant. In addition, there is several boreholes located close proximity of the landfill, which used for drinking and domestic purposes. A s...

Predicting and controlling the concentrations of redox-sensitive elements are primary concerns for environmental remediation of contaminated sites. These predictions are complicated by dynamic flow processes as hydrologic variability is a governing control on conservative and reactive chemical concentrations. Subsurface heterogeneity in the form of layers and lenses further complicates the flow...

The last few decades have seen dramatic growth in the scale of production and the use of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) as flame retardants. Consequently, PBDEs such as BDE -28, -47, -66, -71, -75, -77, -85, -99, -100, -119, -138, -153, -154, and -183 have been detected in various environmental matrices. Generally, in South Africa, once the products containing these chemicals have outli...

Currently, Construction and Demolition waste (C&D waste) is a worldwide issue that concerns not only the construction management level of on-site managers but also the sustainable development of construction industry. In this paper, detailed formulas are listed for calculating the costs of three typical kinds of disposal routes of C&D waste. They are Landfill Disposal, Recycling and Reuse. Usin...

As a developing country the protection of groundwater resources is extremely important in India. Landfills are a major source of water pollution. The filling for the disposal site in Ahmedabad, occurs at a distance of about 50 meters from Ahmedabad plant water intake. In addition, there are several holes are near the tip, which is used for drinking and domestic use. A survey of the composition ...

The municipal solid waste (MSW) remains a great challenge in most cities of developing countries, as the majority generated is either not collected or dumped open uncontrolled non-engineered landfill sites, creating significant pollution due to leakage leachate surrounding environment. In complete transition zero-landfill scenario less likely happen near future various socio-economic challenges...

The management of solid waste is recognised as a challenging activity with respect to the environment, particularly within rapidly growing urban centres in Lower Income Countries. This paper examines issue landfill-waste-generated fires and resultant pollution plumes sourced Chunga Landfill Site, Lusaka, Zambia. authors present results geospatial analysis research programme map assess risks pos...