A framework for a decision support system for municipal solid waste landfill design

Verge, Ashley; Rowe, R. Kerry

doi:10.1177/0734242x13507310

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“…AI for land management could improve the monitoring of waste treatment facilities and the detection of illegal landfills [190,[210][211][212][213][214][215]. But it might also lead to increased waste due to the required digital infrastructures and the digital-induced overconsumption [21].…”

Section: Group 3: Ai As a DImentioning

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Operationalizing Digitainability: Encouraging mindfulness to harness the power of digitalization for sustainable development

Gupta¹,

Zeballos²,

Castro³

et al. 2022

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Digitalization is globally transforming the world with profound implications. It has enormous potential to foster progress toward sustainability. However, in its current form, digitalization also continues to enable and encourage practices with numerous unsustainable impacts affecting our environment, ingraining inequality, and degrading quality of life. There is an urgent need to identify such multifaceted impacts holistically. Impact assessment of digital interventions (DIs) leading to digitalization is important specifically for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). Action is required to understand the pursuit of short-term gains toward achieving long-term value-driven sustainable development. We need to understand the impact of DIs on various actors and in diverse contexts. A holistic understanding of the impact it creates will help us align it with visions of sustainable development and identify potential measures to mitigate negative short and long-term impacts. The recently developed Digitainability Assessment Framework (DAF) unveils the impact of DIs with an in-depth context-aware assessment and offers an evidence-based impact profile of SDGs at the indicator level. We performed the impact assessment of diverse technologies using DAF. This paper summarizes the insights from the Digitainable Spring School 2022 on "Sustainability with Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence," one of whose goals was to operationalize the DAF as a tool in the action learning process with diverse professionals in the field of digitalization and sustainability. The DAF guides a holistic context-aware process formulation for a given DI. An evidence-based evaluation within the DAF protocol benchmarks a specific DI’s impact against the SDG indicators framework. The operationalization of the DAF was carried out by looking at four different DIs: smart home technologies (SHT) for energy efficiency, blockchain for food security, artificial intelligence for land use cover and changes (LUCC), and big data for international law. Each of the four studies addresses different DIs for digitainability assessment using different techniques for a diverse group of indicators, demonstrating the potential of the DAF but also outlining the existing data gaps that limit a comprehensive analysis.

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Section: Group 3: Ai As a DImentioning

confidence: 99%

Operationalizing Digitainability: Encouraging mindfulness to harness the power of digitalization for sustainable development

Gupta¹,

Zeballos²,

Castro³

et al. 2022

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“…The fundamental idea of cellular cut-offs is the creation of containment systems by using a screen with linking cross-walls at certain longitudinal distances (Verge and Rowe, 2013). The screen protects the surrounding environment against the transport of pollutants and significantly decreases the level of soil and groundwater contamination.…”

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Bentonite cut-off walls: solution for landfill remedial works

Koda

Osinski

2017

Environmental Geotechnics

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2The application of landfill containment systems such as cut-off walls could be used effectively as one of the remedial solutions limiting environmental hazards caused by such sites. The complexity and weight of problems concerning remediation works of old sanitary landfills having been considered and interdisciplinary engineering and ecological solutions are recommended. This paper discusses threats to the environment emerging from old landfills and polluted areas and presents examples of engineering solutions used for the remediation of the old, large embankment-type Radiowo landfill located in Warsaw, Poland. The principal remediation problem for the Radiowo landfill was protection systems against leachate migration and groundwater pollution. The research included bentonite vertical barrier quality tests involving both laboratory and on-site hydraulic conductivity tests.Furthermore, a quality assessment based on the groundwater flow and transport modelling and an analysis of monitoring records are presented. The output of the research is the proposal of a dual device employing monitoring and numerical modelling processes for the purpose of controlling the self-purification of soil-water environments after the implementation of containment systems on contaminated sites.

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“…Increased population and economic development had greatly influenced enormous solid waste generation [1]. The rural-urban drift due to population increase and seeking for a better life has increased the quantity of wastes generated within the urban areas.…”

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A Comparative Study of Dumpsites Metal Loads and Ecological Risk in Selected Communities in Kwara and Ekiti States, Nigeria

Raufu

Olawale

et al. 2022

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This study compared the presence of selected heavy metals in Gbagede dumpsite (GD) and Ilokun dumpsite (ID) dumpsite in Kwara and Ekiti State with the host communities Gbagede community (GC) and Ilokun community (IC). Ten soil samples were collected randomly at 10 cm depth, digested and analyzed for Cadmium (Cd), Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), Zink (Zn) and iron (Fe) respectively. The results were compared with control and standard, and subjected to ecological risk indices: Enrichment factor (EF), Contamination factor (CF), and Index of geo-accumulation (Igeo). Metal concentrations were higher (p < 0.05 except Cu) than the control; ranged from 41.2 times (Mn in GD) to 7.08 times (Zn in ID), GD had highest metals except Cu. Metal concentrations at ID > IC (except Cu) and GD> GC. The standard <Cd and Mn,<Zn at GD and ID, and >Cu at GD and GC. The EF was significant (5≤EF<20) for Zn at GD and ID, and for Mn except at GD where there was a very high (20≤EF<40). Mn and Zn indicated high contamination (Cf≥6) at GD and ID while Cd and Fe indicated moderate contamination (1≤Cf<3) except at IC (Cf<1). Moderately polluted (1<Igeo≤2) effects were shown by Fe except at IC and Mn at GD and GC. Conclusively, it was found that the Dumpsites contributed to soil metal loads and ecological risk.

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A framework for a decision support system for municipal solid waste landfill design

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Operationalizing Digitainability: Encouraging mindfulness to harness the power of digitalization for sustainable development

Operationalizing Digitainability: Encouraging mindfulness to harness the power of digitalization for sustainable development

Bentonite cut-off walls: solution for landfill remedial works

A Comparative Study of Dumpsites Metal Loads and Ecological Risk in Selected Communities in Kwara and Ekiti States, Nigeria

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