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Municipal Landfill Leachate Management

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This book is divided into seven chapters, which address various leachate landfill management issues such as the quality, quantity and management of municipal landfill leachate, together with new methods. There are many methods available for the treatment and management of municipal landfill leachate. The waste management methods presented here can be applied in most third-world countries, due to the lack of waste separation and high organic content of waste. The book provides descriptions and a hierarchy of waste management, reviews the history of solid waste disposal, and covers a range of topics, including: leachate and gas generation in landfills; natural attenuation landfills; landfill site selection; leachate and stormwater management, collection and treatment; landfill gas management; landfill cover requirements; leachate collection; types of natural treatment systems; and design procedure and considerations. In closing, it provides an overview of the current solid waste management status in Iran.

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Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Waste Management
Abstract
Solid wastes left on the land by early human beings probably remained of hunting or other surviving activities. Human excrement accounted for another problem associated with leftover materials during prehistoric times. Ancient nomadic people used to migrate to other places once wastes have piled. Then these wastes were absorbed in nature through innate mechanisms such as scavenging and decaying. Therefore, the dominant environmental issues of modern times like air or water pollution were rather negligible during prehistoric times, since the very low population of human lived on the Earth then.
Maryam Pazoki, Reza Ghasemzadeh
Chapter 2. Landfilling
Abstract
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal has always been of considerable importance for governments worldwide. Dramatic growth in the municipal and industrial solid waste generation has been experienced in many countries due to extensive population size, rapid urbanization, changes in lifestyle patterns and acceleration in commercial and industrial developments in the past decades.
Maryam Pazoki, Reza Ghasemzadeh
Chapter 3. Leachate Quality
Abstract
Leachate refers to every liquid material which takes out solutes, suspended solids or any ingredient of the material along which it has passed from solid waste. Literally, leachate is a common term in the bio-sciences where it conveys the special meaning of a liquid material that has solved or drawn biologically detrimental materials which can probably return to the environment, again.
Maryam Pazoki, Reza Ghasemzadeh
Chapter 4. Leachate Quantity
Abstract
In the foregoing chapter, the leachate characteristic was analyzed. In the current chapter, the main focus is on leachate quantity. Yet, the principal goal is to deliver proper patterns for the quantitative assessment of leachate.
Maryam Pazoki, Reza Ghasemzadeh
Chapter 5. Leachate Management
Abstract
Since landfill construction and consequently leachate generation are unavoidable in the waste management process, the main focus is to be on reducing the leachate production as much as possible and also on treating the produced ones in order to eliminate or decline the level of contamination in them up to permissible thresholds before being discharged into the environment.
Maryam Pazoki, Reza Ghasemzadeh
Chapter 6. Natural Treatment Systems
Abstract
Using land for getting rid of wastes has been the most prevailing method for a far long time. The soil has been impeccable in terms of absorbing and stabilizing body wastes generated by a sparse population of nomadic people or animals, thus no problem was posed then. The early records of problematic conditions due to dense population date back to biblical times when the need for the establishment of an organized management system for waste disposal was first felt.
Maryam Pazoki, Reza Ghasemzadeh
Chapter 7. Solid Waste Management in Tehran
Abstract
Municipal waste management formally started in 1911 by the establishment of the Tehran municipality. At that time people disposed of their solid wastes in simple ways. The aim of their act was just to transport the waste out of the urban area. This situation continued until the last two decades. At the begging of the 1980s authorities concentrated more on municipal waste management in the big cities and the recycling centers were began to be developed as the result.
Maryam Pazoki, Reza Ghasemzadeh
Metadaten
Titel
Municipal Landfill Leachate Management
verfasst von
Assist. Prof. Maryam Pazoki
Reza Ghasemzadeh
Copyright-Jahr
2020
Electronic ISBN
978-3-030-50212-6
Print ISBN
978-3-030-50211-9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50212-6