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CL outcomes:
• Need?

• Mgmt/operation?
Land Disposal
Lecture 7
http://adamslecture.blogspot.com

Why we still need L/fill? Public sensitivity?


1. WM techno 1. Safe facility
– can’t 100% 2. Best
eliminate available
2. HZ techno
treatment 3. Cost
techno –
produce
residue

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Differentiate… Design of L/fill

1. Land disposal • Important issue:

Landfill is the traditional storage disposal site


for hazardous and non-hazardous wastes – Top control
• Air emission
2. Land farming (pg: 813) • Infiltration
Landfarming uses Bioremediation – specially
enhanced microbes, with soil aeration
• Precipitation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4K2UgN
BA7Q – Bottom control
• leachate

Malaysian Landfill (Non-ScW)


Eg: Bukit Tagar (KUB-Berjaya Enviro S/B)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIVEv8P0g
dI

Source: cstx.gov

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Landfill (the only ScW disposal)

The Star (Tuesday March 7, 2006)

KA Clinical Waste Management


• Kualiti Alam have revolutionised medical waste
treatment in the country, and operates Malaysia’s first
non-incineration Clinical Waste Treatment Centre.
• The Centre is equipped with the cutting edge
technology in medical waste disposal, Microwave
Ecosteryl.
• This revolutionary innovative medical waste treatment
facility offers an eco-friendly process that uses minimal
electricity while providing a safe and environmentally
friendly solution to bio-medical and clinical-related
industry players

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The Ministry of Health Malaysia KA (UEM--Cenviro) ECO-FRIENDLY


defines clinical waste as: MICROWAVE DISINFECTION SYSTEM
• Any waste which consists wholly or partly of human or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJuMaCXI2x8
animal tissue, blood or other body fluids, excretions, http://ecosteryl.com
drugs or other pharmaceutical products, swabs or
dressings, syringes, needles or other sharp instruments,
being waste which unless rendered safe may prove
hazardous to anyperson coming into contact with it

• Any other waste arising from medical, nursing, dental,


veterinary, pharmaceutical or similar practices,
investigation, treatment, care, teaching or research, or the
collection of blood for transfusion, being waste which may
cause infection to any person coming into contact with it.

http://ibbc.um.edu.my/images/ibbc/doc/anagement_Of_Clinical_Wastes_In_Malaysia__2__0.pdf

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Vegetation benefits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im4HVXMGI68

L/fill operation Site selection


1. Tracking • Geology;
• seismology;
2. Waste compatibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKMGlteQNk
• hydrology;
(Kualiti Alam Modular Incinerator)
• population;
• Transportation;
• Etc…

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Case study KA… Kualiti Alam L/fill

• Site selection of KA? 1. Design


2. Materials-HDPE (pg: 831)
3. Monitoring system
4. Vegetation
5. Etc (pg: 824)

Tips: How to tackle leachate?

Precipitation/run-off water control

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Reference: Tutorial 7
• Michael D. LaGrega. Hazardous Waste Mgmt. Mc Graw Hill. Textbook no. 13-9 to 13.14

• Kualiti Alam Sdn Bhd Compare the characteristics between


• KUB-Berjaya Enviro Sdn Bhd “landfill at Kualti Alam (schedule
waste)” and “landfill at Bukit Tagar
• The Star Online
KUB-Enviro (solid wastes)”?
• https://www.doe.gov.my/portalv1/wp-
content/uploads/2015/01/Environmental_Quality_Control_
of_Pollution_From_Solid_Waste_Transfer_Station_And_La
ndfill_Regulations_2009_-_P.U.A_433-2009.pdf

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