[HTML][HTML] A review of landfill microbiology and ecology: a call for modernization with 'next generation'technology

DAR Meyer-Dombard, JE Bogner, J Malas - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Engineered and monitored sanitary landfills have been widespread in the United States
since the passage of the Clean Water Act (1972) with additional controls under RCRA …

The distribution, behavior, and release of macro-and micro-size plastic wastes in solid waste disposal sites

X Fei, H He, X Pi, X Lu, Q Chen, J Ma… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sanitary landfills and uncontrolled dumpsites are plastic wastes (PWs) reservoirs
containing∼ 60% of all the plastics ever made, amounting to 5,000× 106 tons as of 2017 …

Mass concentration and distribution characteristics of microplastics in landfill mineralized refuse using efficient quantitative detection based on Py-GC/MS

F Lou, J Wang, J Sima, J Lei, Q Huang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Landfilling is the most traditional disposal method of domestic waste. Plastic waste in landfill
sites could degrade to microplastics (MPs) and diffuse to the surrounding environment with …

Masses and size distributions of mechanically fragmented microplastics from LDPE and EPS under simulated landfill conditions

X Lu, H He, Y Wang, Y Guo, X Fei - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Landfills contain significant amounts of plastic waste (PW) and microplastics (MPs).
However, the contributions of various PW fragmentation processes to the quality and …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial methane cycling in a landfill on a decadal time scale

DS Grégoire, NA George, LA Hug - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Landfills generate outsized environmental footprints due to microbial degradation of organic
matter in municipal solid waste, which produces the potent greenhouse gas methane. With …

Microbiology of municipal solid waste landfills: a review of microbial dynamics and ecological influences in waste bioprocessing

L Sekhohola-Dlamini, M Tekere - Biodegradation, 2020 - Springer
Municipal solid waste landfills are widely used as a waste management tool and landfill
microbiology is at the core of waste degradation in these ecosystems. This review …

Experimental investigation of water retention curves of municipal solid wastes with different paper contents, dry unit weights and degrees of biodegradation

Y Xie, J Xue - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the drying and wetting water retention curves (WRCs) of municipal
solid wastes (MSWs) with different paper contents, dry unit weights and degrees of …

Metagenomic analysis of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) during refuse decomposition

X Liu, S Yang, Y Wang, HP Zhao, L Song - Science of The Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Landfill is important reservoirs of residual antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs),
but the mechanism of landfill application influence on antibiotic resistance remains unclear …

Physical, geotechnical and biochemical behaviours of municipal solid waste in field and laboratory bioreactors

Y Xie, J Xue, CT Gnanendran, K Xie - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effects of degrees of compaction (initial dry unit weights),
recirculation liquid and rate, and environmental temperature on the long-term physical …

Quantification of parameters influencing methane generation due to biodegradation of municipal solid waste in landfills and laboratory experiments

X Fei, D Zekkos, L Raskin - Waste management, 2016 - Elsevier
The energy conversion potential of municipal solid waste (MSW) disposed of in landfills
remains largely untapped because of the slow and variable rate of biogas generation …