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Contribution of a Well-Managed Landfill to Sustainable Development

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Waste management is one of the activities either explicitly or implicitly included in most of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thus, a strong argument can be made for the strategic importance of improving landfill management, insofar as this action will lead to progress towards a number of SDGs, especially in developing countries. Waste policies in many countries aim to minimise the negative effects related to the generation and management of waste on human and environmental health. While in some countries, this requires reduction, recovery, reuse and recycling before disposal can be considered as an environmentally friendly and economically viable option, however, these steps are not implemented properly in most countries. This study aimed at reviewing the literature on landfill and sustainable development-related studies retrieved from Web of Science and Scopus databases. Contribution of the findings from these studies to sustainable development was outlined including the identification of research prominent terms with a focus on landfill management and sustainable development. A well-managed landfill can contribute to a circular economy on different scales with minimum impact. The result from this study provides the universal measure that is needed to limit the negative impacts of waste right from generation to final disposal and capitalise on its wide-ranging potential. Utilising innovative landfill strategies will promote renewable energy generation and other aspects of sustainable development.

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    O. O. Ololade & I. R. Orimoloye

  2. Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

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  1. Research and Development Center, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Chinnappan Baskar

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Seeram Ramakrishna

  3. Chemistry and Bioprospecting Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Shikha Baskar

  4. Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Rashmi Sharma

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Amutha Chinnappan

  6. Department of Basic Science, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Ololade, O.O., Orimoloye, I.R. (2022). Contribution of a Well-Managed Landfill to Sustainable Development. In: Baskar, C., Ramakrishna, S., Baskar, S., Sharma, R., Chinnappan, A., Sehrawat, R. (eds) Handbook of Solid Waste Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4230-2_46

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