Paper and paperboard products accounted for twenty eight percent of the total municipal solid waste generated in the United States in 2009. And while the recovery rate of these products is sixty two percent, the remaining twenty six million tons (38%) represent a potentially useful carbon sink that can be exploited to mitigate the release of greenhouse gases from these landfills. However, to da...

BACKGROUND Waste-disposal sites are a potential hazard to health. This study is a multicentre case-control study of the risk of congenital anomalies associated with residence near hazardous-waste landfill sites in Europe. METHODS We used data from seven regional registers of congenital anomalies in five countries. We studied 1089 livebirths, stillbirths, and terminations of pregnancy with non...

In June 2008, the Shenzhen landfill slope failed. This case is used as an example to study the deformation characteristics and failure mode of a slope induced by high water levels. An integrated monitoring system, including water level gauges, electronic total stations, and inclinometers, was used to monitor the slope failure process. The field measurements suggest that the landfill landslide w...

This study creates a landfill design application in a server that can be accessed by engineers via the World Wide Web. Through this system, engineers can complete a side slope design and/or landfill evaluation. Instead of using traditional engineering computation techniques to analyze a problem, this study presents a new method that uses a database to analyze landfill slope stability problems. ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and International Fuel Cells Corporation conducted a test to verify the performance of a landfill gas treatment unit and a phosphoric acid fuel cell system. The complete system removes contaminants from landfill gas and produces electricity for on-site use or connection to an electric grid. The verification test was the first use of fuel cell techn...

A solid waste management crisis exists in many parts of the US as a result of the inability to site new landfills to replace the consumed capacity of existing landfills. Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills can, and usually do, have a significant adverse impact on the individuals who own property in, reside in, or otherwise use, areas near the landfill. This leads those who stand to be adverse...

Many countries are at a crucial junction on the way to tackling the ever-increasing waste problem. A fresh look at their strategic options suggests that processes such as waste-to-energy (WTE) could play a more important role. This neglected energy source could also have a major impact on power generation at a local level. It would resolve some of the potential future electricity generation pro...

Landfill leachates are not geographically specific; rarely acknowledge the impact of site specific parameters such as age, water balance, type of waste, landfill operation, etc.; and cover such large ranges that they are often of little use. Analysis of data from lined landfills in Bhopal was needed to provide useful information for the design and management of landfill leachates. Analyses were...

Landfill leachate is highly loaded, toxic and is bad for the sanitation of wastewater. In this paper, the treatment of the municipal landfill leachate from Shaoxing landfill was evaluated by using gas-liquid fluidized bed with Fenton reagent. The effects of various operating conditions such as treatment time, initial pH value, initial [H2O2], initial [Fe], and ventilation volume were examined. ...

Lab-scale tests were set up to investigate different options for achieving sustainability by reducing long-term landfill emissions. The options which have been studied and compared with the traditional anaerobic landfill for unprocessed refuse were: mechanical-biological pretreatment, landfill aeration with forced and with natural advective air flow (semi-aerobic), flushing. Combination of diff...