Journal
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume 70, Issue -, Pages 282-292Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.08.044
Keywords
Carbon footprint emissions; Waste to energy; Landfills; Incineration; Anaerobic digestion; Recycling
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Funding
- Ministry of Education, Malaysia under MyRA grant scheme [0153AB-J13]
- Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
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Malaysian authorities has planned to minimize and stop when applicable unsanitary dumping of waste as it puts human health and the environment at elevated risk. Cost, energy and revenue are mostly adopted to draw the blueprint of upgrading municipal solid waste management system, while the carbon footprint emissions criterion rarely acts as a crucial factor. This study aims to alert Malaysian stakeholders on the uneven danger of carbon footprint emissions bf waste technologies. Hence, three scenarios have been proposed and assessed mainly on the carbon footprint emissions using the 2006 IPCC methodology. The first scenario is waste dumping in sanitary landfills equipped with gas recovery system, while the second scenario includes anaerobic digestion of organics and recycling of recyclable wastes such as plastic, glass and textile wastes. The third scenario is waste incineration. Besides the carbon footprint emissions criterion, other environmental concerns were also examined. The results showed that the second scenario recorded the lowest carbon footprint emissions of 0.251 t CO2 eq./t MSW while the third scenario had the highest emissions of 0.646 t CO2 eq./t MSW. Additionally, the integration between anaerobic digestion and recycling techniques caused the highest avoided CO2 eq. emissions of 0.74 t CO2 eq./t MSW. The net CO2 eq. emissions of the second scenario equaled -0.489 t CO2 eq./t MSW due to energy recovery from the biogas and because of recycled plastic, glass and textile wastes that could replace usage of raw material. The outcomes also showed that the first scenario generates huge amount of leachate and hazardous air constituents. The study estimated that a ton of dumped waste inside the landfills generates approximately 0.88 m(3) of trace risky compounds and 0.188 m3 of leachate. As for energy production, the results showed that the third scenario is capable of generating 639 kW h/t MSW followed by the second scenario with 387.59 kW hit MSW. The first scenario produced 296.79 kW h/t MSW. In conclusion, the outcomes of this study recommend an integrated scenario of anaerobic digestion and recycling techniques to be employed in Malaysia. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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