Household hazardous waste disposal to landfill: using LandSim to model leachate migration |
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Authors: | Slack Rebecca J Gronow Jan R Hall David H Voulvoulis Nikolaos |
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Institution: | Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK. |
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Abstract: | Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill leachate contains a number of aquatic pollutants. A specific MSW stream often referred to as household hazardous waste (HHW) can be considered to contribute a large proportion of these pollutants. This paper describes the use of the LandSim (Landfill Performance Simulation) modelling program to assess the environmental consequences of leachate release from a generic MSW landfill in receipt of co-disposed HHW. Heavy metals and organic pollutants were found to migrate into the zones beneath a model landfill site over a 20,000-year period. Arsenic and chromium were found to exceed European Union and US-EPA drinking water standards at the unsaturated zone/aquifer interface, with levels of mercury and cadmium exceeding minimum reporting values (MRVs). The findings demonstrate the pollution potential arising from HHW disposal with MSW. |
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