M5 L1 Introduction of Landfills
Landfilling is an unit operation for final disposal of ‘MSW’ on land, designed and constructed by incorporating essential components. For today’s context, the term “Landfill” encompasses other terms such as ‘secured landfill’ and ‘engineered landfills’ ; sanitary landfill’ of MSW, only if the latter is designed on the principle of waste containment and is characterised by the presence of a liner and leachate collection system to prevent ground water contamination. The term ‘sanitary’ landfill has been extensively used in the past to describe MSW disposal units constructed on the basis of ‘dump and cover’ but with no protection against ground water pollution. Such landfills do not fall under the term ‘municipal solid waste landfills.’ This video is an educational resource and is focused on Introduction to landfilling, Principle of operation, Suitability of waste, and Methods of landfilling. Here as one learns the content, he/she will be able to explain introduce landfilling as disposal technique, State principle of operation and explain need of sanitary landfills