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Solid Waste Management System

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2.1 Waste Management

Waste management has become one of the major problems for government and city authorities. The present way of life especially in urban centres produces enormous amounts of waste, and most people want to preserve their lifestyle, while government is also aiming at protecting the environment and promoting public health. Solid waste management is a discipline that is associated with the control of generation, storage, collection, transfer and transport, processing, reusing and recovery and disposal of solid waste in a manner that is in accordance with the best principles of public health, economics, engineering, conservation of nature, aesthetics and environmental considerations in general (Tchobanoglous, 1993). The indiscriminate …show more content…

Although there is a public opposition to landfills, it is necessary and there is no combination of waste management technique that does not require landfilling to make them work.
Landfills serve as a cost-effective and safe method to dispose of ever-increasing amounts of trash and produces gas which can be converted in to energy. In addition, after a landfill is capped and a certain amount of time has passed, the land might be reused for parks, ski slopes, golf courses and other recreation purposes (USEPA, 2005). However, landfills can cause considerable damage to surface and underground water if not properly sited and constructed. It could also result in increased traffic from waste haulage trucks around areas where they are located (Tchobanoglous, …show more content…

It involves the excavation of a trench and once the excavation is completed, the waste is placed into the trench, spread, and compacted (UNEP, 2005). The excavated soil serves as cover material. Soil not used for the daily cover is stockpiled for later use in a subsequent area that might be constructed on top of the completed trench fill. The excavated cells or trenches are lined with synthetic membrane liners, low permeability clay, or a combination of the two to limit the movement of both landfill gases and leachate (Tchobanoglous,

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