Elaboration of an Algorithm for the Efficient Use of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

Abstract

The annual increase in generation and disposal of production and consumer wastes presents an ever pressing environmental, economic, and social challenge for modern industrially developed urbanized territories. As part of the waste management reform, an important issue is the restoration of old landfills for municipal solid waste (MSW). One of possible engineering solutions for the implementation of projects for the reburial of waste from old landfills is excavation of the landfill body with further sorting and extraction of landfill soil and, in some cases, recycled materials. This will reduce the amount of waste subject to reburial. The article examines several options for the implementation of the projects of old landfill restoration. It offers an algorithm for the efficient use of MSW landfills based on the data of environmental and economic analysis of some waste landfill restoration projects.