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Study on Municipal Solid Waste Refuse Characteristics and Leachate Samples of Coimbatore City


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1 Department of Civil Engineering, Govt. College of Technology, Coimbatore-614 013, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Civil Engineering, Govt. College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
 

Characterization of municipal solid waste (MSW) and its leached liquid were was carried out, which not only forms a key for an efficient solid waste management system and to asses potentiality of impairing the ecosystems, but also provide information about the rate and extent of decomposition of dumped waste. For the qualitative analysis, both the samples of solid waste and its leachate, were collected from the disposal site, analyzed and are presented in this paper.
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S. P. Jeyapriya
Department of Civil Engineering, Govt. College of Technology, Coimbatore-614 013, Tamil Nadu, India
M. K. Saseetharan
Department of Civil Engineering, Govt. College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

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Characterization of municipal solid waste (MSW) and its leached liquid were was carried out, which not only forms a key for an efficient solid waste management system and to asses potentiality of impairing the ecosystems, but also provide information about the rate and extent of decomposition of dumped waste. For the qualitative analysis, both the samples of solid waste and its leachate, were collected from the disposal site, analyzed and are presented in this paper.