Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CYCLES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 282-289Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10163-013-0147-4
Keywords
Natural disaster; Environmental contamination; Guideline; Treatment of flood waste
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- Ministry of Environment (ME), Republic of Korea [2013-NIER-1946-306-02] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Natural disasters such as typhoon, flood, and heavy rainfall cause damage in South Korea every year during the summer season. After each rainy season, South Korea suffers not only from flood wastes but also from debris that pile up at dams and stagnate at the estuary of the river. Thus, it is very important to handle these types of wastes as quickly as possible to recover from flood damages and to prevent environmental contamination such as offensive odor and water contamination by the leachate from flood wastes. Other countries such as Japan or USA have established and implemented regulations and guidelines for flood waste. Note, however, that South Korea did not establish practical guidelines; hence, the urgency of establishing practical measures for flood waste. In this study, we suggested various ways of making environmentally sound guidelines including the method of reducing the amount of flood waste by environmentally sound treatment process for flood waste, and the method of setting up and operating the temporary storage site for purposes of efficient separation and treatment of flood waste.
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