Measuring organic carbon, nutrients and heavy metals in rivers receiving leachate from controlled and uncontrolled municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills

Waste Management

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2666-2680

  Yusof, N ^a,b   Haraguchi, A ^c   Hassan, M A ^d   Othman, M R ^d   Wakisaka, M ^a   Shirai, Y ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SULTAN IDRIS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KITAKYUSHU   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MECHANISM; INORGANIC NITROGEN; LANDFILLING; LEACHATE; LEACHATE MANAGEMENT; LEACHATES; MALAYSIA; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; ORGANIC CONTENT; PYRITE OXIDATION; RISK OF CONTAMINATION; RIVER WATER; SURFACE RUNOFFS;

CHROMIUM; HEAVY METALS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON; PYRITES; RIVER CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; SOLID WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

REFUSE DISPOSAL;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM NITRATE; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METAL; IRON; MANGANESE; NICKEL; NITRITE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; PYRITE; RAIN; RIVER WATER;

HEAVY METAL; INORGANIC NITROGEN; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NUTRIENT; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; PYRITE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MALAYSIA; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; SEASHORE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CARBON; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALAYSIA; METALS, HEAVY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RIVERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 68049107198     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.05.022     Document Type: Article

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