| Literature DB >> 17046126 |
Rebecca J Slack1, Jan R Gronow, David H Hall, Nikolaos Voulvoulis.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17046126 DOI： 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.07.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Environ Pollut ISSN： 0269-7491 Impact factor: 8.071