Proposal of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems for Reduction of Carbon loading to Landfill site

Abstract

Reduction of carbon loading to landfills (biodegradable and non-biodegradable organic carbon) is important to green house gas emission and to a shortage of capacity in landfill sites. Since most waste is incinerated in Japan, such a carbon loading comes from organic matter in the incombustible refuse, as they have been carried to landfill sites without any treatments. Objectives of this study are to estimate carbon loading in landfilling incombustible refuse in the typical systems depending on incineration in Japan, and to propose municipal solid waste management systems for reduction of carbon loading to landfill site, considering landfill criteria in Germany that has reduced carbon loading to landfills.