Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Leachate Characteristics and Their Treatment Options in Tropical Countries

• Published in: Current pollution reports Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 273 - 287
• Main Authors: Lindamulla, Lahiru, Nanayakkara, Nadeeshani, Othman, Maazuza, Jinadasa, Shameen, Herath, Gemunu, Jegatheesan, Veeriah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.09.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adsorption; Age; Ammonia; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Biochemical oxygen demand; Chemical oxygen demand; Climate; Climatic conditions; Contaminants; Disposal sites; Dissolved solids; Dump leaching; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Heavy metals; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Landfill; landfill leachates; Landfills; Leachates; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; monsoon season; Monsoons; Municipal landfills; Municipal solid waste; Municipal waste management; Oxidation; Oxygen; Pollution; Pollution index; Precipitation; Quality assessment; Rain; Rainforests; Savannahs; savannas; Section Editors; Solid waste management; Solid wastes; Topical Collection on Water Pollution; Total dissolved solids; total Kjeldahl nitrogen; Tropical environment; Tropical environments; tropical rain forests; tropics; Waste disposal; Waste disposal sites; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution (G Toor and L Nghiem; Water Pollution Control; Brazil; Colombia; Malaysia; Taiwan; India; Leachate pollution index; Tropical countries; Landfill leachate; Leachate treatment

This review assesses the leachate quality from waste disposal sites in tropical climate zone. Through this review, data from 228 leachate samples from 145 waste disposal sites from 18 countries in the tropical region were analyzed. The 12 types of sites were considered for the analysis based on the...