Landfill Zoning and Site Selection (Case Study: Tabriz City)

Abstract

Ever growth of population and following of that, increasing of landfills have caused that environmental experts pay attention to it. Understanding of environmental processes require the knowing of ecological relations between life and non-life creatures and nutrient cycle and important cycles such as water cycle and nitrogen cycle. Latexes in produced landfills sometimes persist with heavy metals in many years. Usually heavy metals containing with organic compounds in molecular structure show no severance. Landfill excretion management in suburban areas of large cities such as Tabriz is inevitable. To observe multiplicity layers in landfill excretion we used geographic information system for site selection. Results showed that landfill excretion in Tabriz is none desirable due to the status of groundwater and geological formations and the sense that compost industry to be established in this city.

Keywords

• landfill
• ecological relations
• compost
• ground water
• tabriz
• gis