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Industrial waste Landfill

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Industrial waste Landfill

As many industries are increasingly developing, much industrial waste is collected from the products they manufacture. Many of these wastes are non-biodegradable and thus form industrial landfills. Industrial waste is harmful, and when dumped in a landfill, it forms a chemical state of brown or dark color. The waste forms Leachate with a high concentration of ammonia, nitrogen, and heavy metals. It has other organic and inorganic polluting substances (Gautam & Kumar, 2021). The Leachate, if not treated, can contaminate water from the ground and the surrounding soil. Treating industrial solid waste materials is crucial to avoid contaminants polluting the environment. This paper highlights issues faced by industrial solid wastes regarding current environmental regulations.

The first issue from industrial waste landfill regarding environmental regulation is expensive Leachate treatment. Leachate is a collection of solid waste materials and chemical substances, such as organic and inorganic constituents (Segundo et al., 2021). The concentration of Leachate varies according to the amount of organic and inorganic compounds present. However, the dumpsite for this waste decomposition is harmful to human health. Additionally, when rainwater is directed to the waste environment, the Leachate can be carried away to a different environment causing pollution to diverge. Therefore, the Ozone-based process is the possible solution to treat Leachate (Segundo et al., 2021). The process can either remove the color of the Leachate or disassemble organic compounds constituents in the waste.

Another issue is the lack of proper treatment of waste in industrial waste landfill. There are assumptions of treating the less biodegradable wastes from several industries. Leachates with few or moderate organic materials have been left behind without treatment which causes harm to the environment (Martins et al., 2021). Issues have been raised about leaches, and environmental regulations have been set to ensure the treatment of the same. Biological and conventional are some of the processes to treat these Leachates, as well as physiochemical and oxidation processes. Environmental regulations insist that as long as the color and odor of the industrial chemical waste are present, treatment is inevitable from the landfills (Martins et al., 2021). However, it is important to treat waste before its disposing to landfills.

A third issue raised concerns the constituents of metals in industrial waste products. The study has shown that metals such as Gold (Au), Copper (Cu), Cobalt (Co), Zinc (Zn), and Chromium (Cr) are highly present in Leachate emission (Krishnan et al., 2021). However, these metals harm human health and the environment due to poor disposal. Nevertheless, the contamination of such metals is harmful to other living beings. Therefore, it is important to concentrate on reusing, recycling and manufacturing to counter the emission of these harmful metals. The waste industries such as medical, petroleum, metal, and battery wastes should major on methods to prevent the emission of such metals. These include chemical, physical, and thermal processes. Firms should hire advanced technologies such as pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy to separate industrial waste metals (Krishnan et al., 2021). Discovering metal constituents in the waste materials and inventing ways to extract them is a critical factor industry should employ.

The fourth issue is non-biodegradable waste constituents in industrial waste landfills. These types of waste spend more time before decomposing their chemical forms, which adversely affects living things. The-non biodegradable waste finds its way through soil or water and can be consumed by humans without their awareness (Siddiqua et al., 2022). The main issue remains to prevent these wastes from going through the soil and underground water or protecting the waste from the environment. Therefore, it is important to ensure that this kind of waste does not contact human beings or other living beings (Siddiqua et al., 2022). The landfill should be isolated from the surrounding by burying the waste in an engineered way.

In summary, exposure to industrial waste has effects on human beings. Improper disposal of waste products affects the environment and human beings. Biodegradable wastes can cause health cases in the surrounding where the presence of metals such as Gold and Copper are harmful when consumed. Non-biodegradable wastes also cause adverse effects when not properly disposed of through an engineered burying of the waste materials.

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Gautam, P., & Kumar, S. (2021). Characterisation of hazardous waste landfill leachate and its reliance on landfill age and seasonal variation: A statistical approach. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(4), 105496.

Segundo, I. D. B., Gomes, A. I., Souza-Chaves, B. M., Park, M., dos Santos, A. B., Boaventura, R. A., ... & Vilar, V. J. (2021). Incorporation of ozone-driven processes in a treatment line for a leachate from a hazardous industrial waste landfill: Impact on the bio-refractory character and dissolved organic matter distribution. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(4), 105554.

Segundo, I. D. B., Martins, R. J., Boaventura, R. A., Silva, T. F., Moreira, F. C., & Vilar, V. J. (2021). Finding a suitable treatment solution for a leachate from a non-hazardous industrial solid waste landfill. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(2), 105168.

Krishnan, S., Zulkapli, N. S., Kamyab, H., Taib, S. M., Din, M. F. B. M., Abd Majid, Z., ... & Othman, N. (2021). Current technologies for recovery of metals from industrial wastes: An overview. Environmental Technology & Innovation, 22, 101525.

Siddiqua, A., Hahladakis, J. N., & Al-Attiya, W. A. K. (2022). An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-23.