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The Role of Bioreactor Landfill Concept in Waste Management in India

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The sustainable landfilling concept has several advantages over conventional waste management practices in addressing various socio-economic and environmental concerns. This study presents an overview of the sustainable landfilling concept and various unit processes associated with it. The waste management approaches followed in the city of Bangalore and the benefits of applying the sustainable landfilling concept are discussed. A review of the bioreactor landfills, landfill mining, and biocover systems are presented. Laboratory scale bioreactor studies on the degradation of mechanically and biologically treated waste of Bangalore city under anaerobic, aerobic, and semi-aerobic conditions are presented. The performance of bioreactor landfills and the selection of waste treatment units are greatly influenced by the municipal solid waste properties and hence are reviewed in the study.

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The authors thank the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India for supporting the project on Development of methodologies for Rehabilitation of Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites in India under IMPacting Research INnovation and Technology (IMPRINT); Grant No.IMP/2019/000442/SH, 2019. The financial support by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, India is greatly acknowledged by the authors.

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Sughosh, P., Sivakumar Babu, G.L. The Role of Bioreactor Landfill Concept in Waste Management in India. J Indian Inst Sci 101, 659–683 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41745-021-00248-y

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