Life-Cycle Inventory and Impact Evaluation of Mining Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
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- 作者：Pradeep Jain ; Jon T. Powell ; Justin L. Smith ; Timothy G. Townsend ; Thabet Tolaymat
- 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：March 4, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：48
- 期：5
- 页码：2920-2927
- 全文大小：396K
- 年卷期：v.48,no.5(March 4, 2014)
- ISSN：1520-5851
文摘
Recent research and policy directives have emerged with a focus on sustainable management of waste materials, and the mining of old landfills represents an opportunity to meet sustainability goals by reducing the release of liquid- and gas-phase contaminants into the environment, recovering land for more productive use, and recovering energy from the landfilled materials. The emissions associated with the landfill mining process (waste excavation, screening, and on-site transportation) were inventoried on the basis of diesel fuel consumption data from two full-scale mining projects (1.3鈥?.5 L/in-place m3 of landfill space mined) and unit emissions (mass per liter of diesel consumption) from heavy equipment typically deployed for mining landfills. An analytical framework was developed and used in an assessment of the life-cycle environmental impacts of a few end-use management options for materials deposited and mined from an unlined landfill. The results showed that substantial greenhouse gas emission reductions can be realized in both the waste relocation and materials and energy recovery scenarios compared to a 鈥渄o nothing鈥?case. The recovery of metal components from landfilled waste was found to have the greatest benefit across nearly all impact categories evaluated, while emissions associated with heavy equipment to mine the waste itself were found to be negligible compared to the benefits that mining provided.