Environmental Risk Discrimination and Assessment for Municipal Solid Waste Secure Landfill Site

Abstract

With the development of urbanization, the amount of municipal solid waste is increasing. Landfill is the main method for disposing the urban garbage at present in China. But the secure landfill site is not safe completely because it has a lot of risks threatening surrounding environment. After types of environmental risk in municipal solid waste secure landfill site were analyzed, I summarized that the risks in waste secure landfill site include water environment risks, air environment risks and waste pile sliding risks which are results caused by anthropic, equipment and natural factors. The methods of calculating risk probability, affecting scope and intensity were presented. The ways and means of risk prevention and management were put forward.

Keywords

• Municipal solid waste; secure landfill site; environmental risk.