Risk assessment of landfill disposal sites – State of the art

Talib E. Butt, Elaine Lockley, Kehinde O. K. Oduyemi

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Abstract

A risk assessment process can assist in drawing a cost-effective compromise between economic and environmental costs, thereby assuring that the philosophy of ‘sustainable development’ is adhered to. Nowadays risk analysis is in wide use to effectively manage environmental issues. Risk assessment is also applied to other subjects including health and safety, food, finance, ecology and epidemiology. The literature review of environmental risk assessments in general and risk assessment approaches particularly regarding landfill disposal sites undertaken by the authors, reveals that an integrated risk assessment methodology for landfill gas, leachate or degraded waste does not exist. A range of knowledge gaps is discovered in the literature reviewed to date. From the perspective of landfill leachate, this paper identifies the extent to which various risk analysis aspects are absent in the existing approaches.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)952-964
Number of pages13
JournalWaste Management
Volume28
Issue number6
Early online date30 Oct 2007
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

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