Potential Impacts of Leachate From Waste Mixed With CCA-Treated Wood Destined to Landfills

Emmanuel Emem Obong Agbenyeku; Edison Muzenda; Innocent Mandla Msibi

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2717-8_36

Potential Impacts of Leachate From Waste Mixed With CCA-Treated Wood Destined to Landfills

Emmanuel Emem Obong Agbenyeku, Edison Muzenda, Innocent Mandla Msibi

Chemical, Materials & Metallurgical Engineering

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Abstract

The best option considered in waste management as against landfilling is recycling. However, landfilling is predominantly the method of waste disposal in South Africa and in developing countries. South Africa disposes 41,000 tons of solid waste daily which includes chunks of construction and demolition (C&D) debris, municipal solid waste (MSW) and wood waste. Leachate generation and percolation is expected in these landfills as rain and/or runoffs enter the waste body. Arsenic, copper and chromium leach from Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA)-treated wood when in contact with water. As such, laboratory tests using a bespoke device were carried out to explore the environmental risk of different disposal situations in monofills and/or open dumps. The study therefore, presents the results for the wood waste and revealed that CCA-treated wood formed hazardous concentration levels of chromium and arsenic which if not properly contained in real life scenarios, could have consequential contamination impacts on human and environment health.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WCECS 2015
Subtitle of host publication	Transactions on Engineering Technologies
Editors	S. I. Ao, H. Kim, M. Amouzegar
Publisher	Springer Singapore
Pages	513-524
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-10-2717-8
ISBN (Print)	978-981-10-2716-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2717-8_36
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Agbenyeku, E. E. O., Muzenda, E., & Msibi, I. M. (2015). Potential Impacts of Leachate From Waste Mixed With CCA-Treated Wood Destined to Landfills. In S. I. Ao, H. Kim, & M. Amouzegar (Eds.), WCECS 2015: Transactions on Engineering Technologies (pp. 513-524). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2717-8_36

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Potential Impacts of Leachate From Waste Mixed With CCA-Treated Wood Destined to Landfills. / Agbenyeku, Emmanuel Emem Obong; Muzenda, Edison; Msibi, Innocent Mandla.

WCECS 2015: Transactions on Engineering Technologies. ed. / S. I. Ao; H. Kim; M. Amouzegar. Springer Singapore, 2015. p. 513-524.

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