Evaluating and comparing of two methods of compost and waste landfill in Khomein city emphasis on economical aspects and environmental considerations

Subject Areas : environmental management

Mahdiyeh Rezaei ¹ , Seyed Masoud Monavvari ² , Ghasemali Omrani ³

1 - Tutor of Natural Resource and Environment, Payame noor University
2 - Assistant Professor, Environment and Energy Faculty, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Iran
3 - Professor, Faculty of Health, Environmental Health Group, Tehran University

Received: 2008-09-05 Accepted : 2008-12-24 Published : 2013-03-21

Keywords: Organic waste, compost, Sanitary Landfil,

Abstract :

AbstractAccording to the executed calculations in the site of wastes' landfill in Khomein city, 48 metric tons ofwastes are buried inaccurately daily. This traditional method causes many environmental troubles andindicates the necessity of taking optimized actions to authorities and peoples. Due to reducing troublesof urban waste landfill, municipality of Khomein city in Markazi province decided to construct andutilize compost installations. The area of the project land is 2 hectares and the aim of its developmentis up to 3 hectares. The capacity of this project is 2000 metric tons composts yearly which has thecapability of increasing. By the way, another relevant option in this case in Khomein city or othersimilar cities is sanitizing current method of wastes' landfill and execution sanitary landfill operation.Present study intend to compare compost project by waste' landfill besides evaluating present site ofwaste's landfill by utilizing Oleckno method by executing calculations, which uses economicalconsiderations. Ultimately it finds that selecting sanitary landfill option for the circumstance ofKhomein city concerning ecological situation and acquiring maximum point of Oleckno index islogical and comparison of expenses of 1 kg waste's landfill by two available methods indicatesvariance of 10 tomans.Obviously, in the case of considering the principles of the separation from origin and transformation ofcompost to bio compost by all its aspects and omitting its expensive installations and equipments andcost reduction of economical expenses of this project, we can reach to a better conclusion inneighboring cities in this province or other proximate provinces by localizing the site of compostproject in the interval of several neighboring cities and considering this option by executing moreprecise investigations.

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