Environmental contamination due to solid waste mismanagement is a global issue. Open
dumping and open burning are the main implemented waste treatment and final disposal …

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is the abridgment of the waste generated from domestic,
commercial, and construction activities by natural persons that is collected and treated by …

Several consequences of health effects from municipal solid waste caused by carcinogenic
and noncarcinogenic metals have been recognized. The water quality index (WQI) in the …

For the success of waste-to-energy in New Zealand, waste-to-energy processing
technologies need to reduce their costs (eg capital and operational) by generating …

Landfills are the primary option for waste disposal all over the world. Most of the landfill sites
across the world are old and are not engineered to prevent contamination of the underlying …

This study was aimed to determine the heavy metal concentration in water, soil, and plant
around an open landfill site in Mogla Bazar, Sylhet, Bangladesh. The concentration of …

The inevitable consequence of the operation of landfills is the emission of leachate, which is
considered to be one of the main polluters of the ground and water environment. The …

This study investigated the heavy metal content and the extent of pollution in soils from
abandoned dump sites in Kumasi, Ghana. Concentrations of heavy metals in the 70 soil …

The present study was designed to probe the levels of heavy metals (Cd, Pb, Cr, Mn, Cu, Ni,
Zn and Fe) for different environmental matrices (ground water, wastewater, sediment, soil …

Landfills have been identified as potential sources of heavy metal pollution of the
environment. The municipal solid waste Łubna landfill is one of the largest landfills in …