An overview of municipal solid waste management and landfill leachate treatment : Malaysia and Asian perspectives

Currently, generation of solid waste per capita in Malaysia is about 1.1 kg/day. Over 26,500 t of solid waste is disposed almost solely through 166 operating landfills in the country every day. Despite the availability of other disposal methods, landfill is the most widely accepted and prevalent method for municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal in developing countries, including Malaysia. This is mainly ascribed to its inherent forte in terms cost saving and simpler operational mechanism. However, there is a downside. Environmental pollution caused by the landfill leachate has been one of the typical dilemmas of landfilling method. Leachate is the liquid produced when water percolates through solid waste and contains dissolved or suspended materials from various disposed materials and biodecomposition processes. It is often a high-strength wastewater with extreme pH, chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), inorganic salts and toxicity. Its composition differs over the time and space within a particular landfill, influenced by a broad spectrum of factors, namely waste composition, landfilling practice (solid waste contouring and compacting), local climatic conditions, landfill's physico-chemical conditions, biogeochemistry and landfill age. This paper summarises an overview of landfill operation and leachate treatment availability reported in literature: a broad spectrum of landfill management opportunity, leachate parameter discussions and the way forward of landfill leachate treatment applicability.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Environmental science and pollution research international - 24(2017), 35 vom: 25. Dez., Seite 26988-27020

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kamaruddin, Mohamad Anuar [VerfasserIn]
Yusoff, Mohd Suffian [VerfasserIn]
Rui, Lo Ming [VerfasserIn]
Isa, Awatif Md [VerfasserIn]
Zawawi, Mohd Hafiz [VerfasserIn]
Alrozi, Rasyidah [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Landfill
Leachate
Municipal solid waste
Operation
Review
Solid Waste
Water Pollutants, Chemical

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 31.10.2018

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11356-017-0303-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM277358671