Then fleets of trucks are carting loads to various landfills, making so many runs that city officials have issued traffic alerts.
Open image in new window Fig. 5 Methane generation potential of the various landfills in Lagos.
There are concerns with excessive pollutants concentration in matured leachate, Over the years, various sustainable landfill leachate treatment techniques have been proposed and tested for treating highly polluted leachate.
Recently, progress can be seen in the use of microorganisms for environmental biotechnology, namely removal of greenhouse gases from various sites (landfills, coal mines), biodegradation of toxic compounds, wastewater treatment etc. (Hamer [2010]).
Next came several landfills.
The other six contracts, with various haulers and landfill owners, will be phased in by the middle of April, city officials said.
The formulations developed can be used for prediction of temperatures within various components of landfill systems (liner, waste mass, cover, and surrounding subgrade), determination of frost depths, and determination of heat gain due to decomposition of wastes.
Nearly 38% of the fly ash waste is utilized in the Country at present [11], in various fields including landfills, cement making and concrete product making such as bricks, blocks and tiles, in road making, in filling of the mines.
Biomass fuels considered for cofiring include wood waste, short rotation woody crops, short rotation herbaceous crops (e.g., switchgrass), alfalfa stems, various types of manure, landfill gas and wastewater treatment gas.
Within this context, we quantified 13 antibiotic resistance genes (ARG; indicators of AR potential), 6 heavy metals, 3 antibiotics, and 17 other organic pollutants at 8 locations along the Almendares River in western Havana at sites bracketing known waste discharge points, including a large solid waste landfill and various pharmaceutical factories.
