A Comparative Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Sites in Northern Iran Publisher



Yazdani M¹ ; Monavari SM¹ ; Omrani GA² ; Shariat M¹ ; Hosseini SM³ Show Affiliations
Source: Applied Ecology and Environmental Research Published:2017

Abstract

Not only in developing countries has remained land-filling the most customarily used method despite the increased attention to development of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management. There is a worldwide need to find the right management of MSW and this research is developing an strategy for landfill sites in Iran. We first determine the characteristics of the ten landfill sites in western part of Mazandaran province, northern Iran, using seven different landfill site sitting approaches. After reviewing each waste deposit site, considering all the criteria in each one of the seven methods applied in the present study, the incoherence in suitability was apparent in first phase. The second phase was to address the locally preferred criteria for landfill site evaluation. The aims of the present research were to show the unsuitability of the current landfill sites in western part of Mazandaran province and therefore, addressing locally preferred criteria for landfill site evaluation in northern Iran, commonly referred to as the Caspian Landfill Criteria (CLC), using which the most suitable areas for landfill sites were formerly chosen. The most principal parts in the CLC model were the importance of the weights of the criteria and the preferred weights of them. This model with eighteen effective and native criteria provides the suitable evaluation technique for municipal landfill sites. The final aim of this project was to apply the obtained results to illustrate the lack of suitable regions for MSW landfill sites in studied area. © 2017, ALOKI Kft.