Environmental Researches

Environmental Researches

Identifying Environmental Impacts of Solid Waste Landfill Using of Site Selection Criteria (Case Study; Solid Waste Landfill of Rasht)

Authors
F Ghanbari 1
N Abedinzadeh 1
H Aliani 2
1 Environmental Research Institute. Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Rasht, Iran
2 Department of Environmental Science, Graduate School of the Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Landfill of Rasht has been selected without any site selection process. Pollutants from this site, which
is located near to Siahroud River, are discharged into Anzali Wetland. This research aims to evaluate
landfill of Rasht by current methods for identifying impacts. In this study, landfill site selecting
methods such as Oleckno, Drastic and Monavari method was used and compared together. The results
show that this site was classified as a good category in Oleckno Method, moderate in Drastic method
and unacceptable category in Monavari method. Comparing the results shows a heavy variation. The
reasons of this differ in number of parameters and also for the lack of weighting in some methods.
Also the results show that considering more parameters in evaluating of landfills can reveal more
negative impacts. This research reveals that, the methods whit both specific weight and abundance of
parameters show more reasonable results.
 
Keywords
environmental impacts
Site selection criteria
Landfill
Pollution
Oleckno
DRASTIC