Thesis

The controlled landfill bioreactor : a sustainable waste management option for the 21st century? The Mid Auchencarroch experimental landfill

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  • University of Strathclyde
Date of award
  • 1997
Thesis identifier
  • T9333
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Abstract
  • In the twilight of the 20th Century,it has been realised that development cannot continue in an unsustainable manner. The way that resources are utilised within society plays an important role in Sustainable Development. -- Waste Management is the discipline that deals with the material resources when society no longer has a use for them. Sustainable waste management regenerates resources from waste, because disposal of these resources is not sustainable. -- However, the reality is that disposal to landfill will be the fate of the majority of waste for the foreseeable future, in the UK and many parts of the world. Therefore, the development of techniques to reduce the disbenefits of disposal to landfill are justified. -- The experimental work in this thesis describes research into methods of bringing disposal to landfill closer to the principles of sustainability. -- The Mid Auchencarroch Experimental Landfill is a field scale facility, constructed in order to assess a number of techniques that promote moves towards more sustainable landfill. The experiment centres on municipal solid waste in a enhanced bioreactor mode of landfill operation. The techniques evaluated are; pretreatment of waste, leachate recirculation and co-disposal with inert material. Results from the first two years of monitoring show that a combination of manipulations could move the process of landfill very much closer to the goals of sustainability, achieving in just over one generation what it may take several hundred years to achieve in conventional landfill.
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  • Fleming, George
  • Buchanan, David
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  • Contains appendices from CD-ROM
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EThOS ID
  • uk.bl.ethos.503567
Date Created
  • 1997
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  • 995433163402996
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