Assessment of environmental risk of municipal solid waste Landfill (by example of the city of Belgorod)

Abstract

The paper discusses current environmental problems associated with the accumulation and disposal of municipal solid waste in Russia by the example of the Belgorod region. It is shown that the existing rates of waste accumulation can lead to environmental emergencies in the region. The scenarios for the development of emergency situations at the landfill of Belgorod were considered. The analysis show that the most dangerous in terms of the social and environmental consequences of dangerous situations are scenarios related to the filtering of the contents of the map-ditches into the environment. Also, the high integral risk has a scenario with pollution of atmospheric air of polygon gases. Using the method of risk matrices by formalizing expert opinions, it is shown that a comprehensive method of disposal of solid waste minimizes anthropogenic pressure on the environment in the field of waste management.

Municipal solid waste and risk from 1970 to 2020

“…In the context of risk assessments, there is also often confusion, mainly because of the techniques and the geospatial scale used to model the risk. For example, in the manuscripts of Kiryushina et al [11] and Kazuva et al [12], matrix techniques are used to determine the risk, while in Vaverková et al [13] and Cangialosi et al [14] they use mathematical formulations that associate the chemical characteristics of some hazardous agent (leachate or biogas) with cancer events in human beings and other damages in living organisms. In another context, the works of Rapti et al [15] and Bosque et al [16] use different scales, spatial models, hazardous agent or receptor of damage (human or environmental) to model the risk associated with MSW.…”