Environmental bodies and landfill tax funds

Read, Adam D.; Phillips, Paul S; Murphy, Alice

doi:10.1016/s0921-3449(97)00016-5

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“…Many of the European and Asian countries are aiming at limiting the municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal in landfills to no more than 5% of the organic wastes. They have imposed taxes on landfilling to ensure that the combustibles and organic matters are segregated and treated properly rather than buried in the ground (Read et al, 1997). In Bangladesh, of the total waste generated (16,380 ton/d), food/vegetable wastes only account for about 62% (Sujauddin et al, 2008).…”

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Batch anaerobic digestion of simulated Bangladeshi food waste: methane production at different inoculum-to-substrate ratios and kinetic analysis

Tasnim

Behera²,

Zafar

et al. 2016

IJGW

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This study investigates the anaerobic biodegradation characteristics of a simulated Bangladeshi food waste. Biochemical methane potential experiments carried out in 500 mL batch digesters showed the methane yields of cooked meat, cooked fish, boiled rice, vegetable and mixed food waste (MFW) to be 541, 402, 319, 274 and 484 ml CH 4 /gVS, respectively. The biodegradability of 87%, 83%, 75%, 76% and 82% were obtained for cooked meat, cooked fish, boiled rice, vegetable and MFW, respectively. At mesophilic temperature (35°C), a maximum of 484.41 ml CH 4 /g VS was observed at an inoculum to substrate ratio (ISR) of 1 followed by 280, 166, 194 and 43 mL CH 4 /g VS at ISRs 10, 2, 0.1 and 0.05, respectively. The modified Gompertz model utilised for estimating the kinetic parameters of methane production revealed the maximum methane production rate as 16.02 ml CH 4 /g VS.d at an ISR of 1 with lag phase of 3.8 days.

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Batch anaerobic digestion of simulated Bangladeshi food waste: methane production at different inoculum-to-substrate ratios and kinetic analysis

Tasnim

Behera²,

Zafar

et al. 2016

IJGW

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A new method for environmental site assessment of urban solid waste landfills

Ghanbari¹,

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Monavari

et al. 2011

Environ Monit Assess

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Regarding various types of pollutant, waste management requires high attention. Environmental site selection study, prior to landfill operation, and subsequently, monitoring and maintaining of the location, are of foremost points in landfill site selection process. By means of these studies, it is possible to control the undesirable impacts caused by landfills. Study ahead aims at examination of effectiveness of a new method called Monavari 95-2 in landfill site assessment. For this purpose, two landfills Rasht and Andisheh, which are, respectively, located on humid and arid areas, were selected as case studies. Then, the results obtained from both sites were compared with each other to find out the weaknesses and strengths of each site. Compared with others similar methods, much more criteria (53 parameters) can be considered within this method, so the results will be more calculable. According to this method, Rasht landfill (site H) is classified as unacceptable landfill site i.e. there is an urgent need for a new suitable site for landfill, while Andishe Landfill (site D) is ranked as acceptable landfill site but needs environmental management program to handle the existing weaknesses.

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