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Sustainable practices for landfill design and operation / Timothy G. Townsend, Jon Powell, Pradeep Jain, Qiyong Xu, Thabet Tolaymat, Debra Reinhart.

The management of municipal solid waste in many countries throughout the world has changed significantly over the past fifty years, with a shift from uncontrolled dumping or burning to complex systems that integrate multiple processes to recover materials or energy and provide containment to reduce...

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Main Authors: Townsend, Timothy G. (Author), Powell, Jon (Author), Jain, Pradeep (Author), Xu, Qiyong (Author), Tolaymat, Thabet (Author), Reinhart, Debra R. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, 2015.
Series:Waste managment principles and practice.
Subjects:
Sanitary landfills.
Sustainable design.
Table of Contents:
  • CHAPTER 1. The Landfill's Role in Sustainable Waste Management
  • CHAPTER 2. Waste and Landfill Fundamentals
  • CHAPTER 3. Planning for Sustainable Landfilling Practices
  • CHAPTER 4. State of Practice.- CHAPTER 5. Landfill Constituent Relationships and Dynamics
  • CHAPTER 6. Moisture Supply and Conveyance
  • CHAPTER 7. Systems for Surface Addition of Liquids
  • CHAPTER 8. Buried Vertical Systems for Liquids Addition
  • CHAPTER 9. Buried Horizontal Systems for Liquids Addition
  • CHAPTER 10. Leachate Collection and Removal Systems (LCRS)
  • CHAPTER 11. Leachate Control, Storage, and Treatment
  • CHAPTER 12. Slope Stability
  • CHAPTER 13. LFG
  • CHAPTER 14. Landfill Air Addition
  • CHAPTER 15. Operations
  • CHAPTER 16. Tools and Techniques for Landfill Monitoring.- CHAPTER 17. Final Landfill Disposition
  • CHAPTER 18. Economics.

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