Rapid urbanization of Dhaka city has created immense pressure on its urban services including solid waste disposal. Both city corporations (Dhaka North, DNCC and Dhaka South, DSCC) have been facing tremendous problem to maintain sustainable waste management over the last few decades. At present, the DNCC and DSCC dump 68% of the total solid waste to the sanitary landfill site at Matuail. Decomp...

Uncontrolled growth of the urban population in developing countries in recent years has made solid waste management an important issue. Today municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is one of the most challenging issues in urban cities, which are facing a serious pollution problem due to the generation of huge quantities of solid waste. This results in development of environmentally sustainable...

Being opportunistic omnivores, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) readily feed on edible garbage. Given the presence of substantial volumes food waste, large multi-county and regional municipal sanitary waste landfills constitute attractive forage resources for pigs, providing a year-round anthropogenic source potentially high-quality forage. Our objective was to assess effects that landfill has local fora...

A comparative LCA is made to valuate the environmental implications of six scenarios of biowastes management in Barcelona, one of them consists of a traditional controlled landfill, in which the 54% of biowaste is disposed directly without any previous treatment, for the rest of the scenarios, a controlled landfill by rectangular baling-wrapping technology is considered. Then the consumption of...