Contribution of individual waste fractions to the environmental impacts from landfilling of municipal solid waste

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 433-440

  Manfredi, Simone ^a   Tonini, Davide ^a   Christensen, Thomas H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMBUSTIBLE WASTES; ECOTOXICITY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENERGY GENERATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HIGH-CONTENT; HUMAN TOXICITY; LANDFILL GAS; LANDFILLING; LEACHATE COLLECTION; MIXED WASTES; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANICS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; VACUUM CLEANING; WASTE DEGRADATION; WASTE FRACTION;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY CONVERSION; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METALS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LIFE CYCLE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTES; TOXICITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BENZENE; CADMIUM; CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; CHLOROFORM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SULFUR; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; VINYL CHLORIDE; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGENIC EMISSION; DEGRADATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; LEACHING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RECYCLING; TOXICITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LANDFILL; LEACHING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC WASTE; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASES; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 73549094454     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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