Goal-based waste management strategy to reduce persistence of contaminants in leachate at municipal solid waste landfills

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 821-831

  Tansel, Berrin ^a   Yildiz, Banu Sizirici ^b  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition byproducts; Landfill stability; Leachate; Post closure care; Sustainability; Waste diversion

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BICARBONATE; BIOMONITORING; CHLORIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DECOMPOSITION; IRON; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; LINEARITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EFFECT; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052534615     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-011-9290-z     Document Type: Article

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