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Environmental Policy and Waste Management Solutions

The document outlines the six steps to making environmental policy and discusses the environmental effects and benefits of urbanization. It includes calculations for solid waste management in a residential area and determines the area required for a new landfill site based on projected waste generation. The calculations consider population, waste density, and planning restrictions for landfill height.

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Environmental Policy and Waste Management Solutions

The document outlines the six steps to making environmental policy and discusses the environmental effects and benefits of urbanization. It includes calculations for solid waste management in a residential area and determines the area required for a new landfill site based on projected waste generation. The calculations consider population, waste density, and planning restrictions for landfill height.

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List the six steps to making environmental policy

2. Discuss briefly Environmental effects and


Benefits of Urbanization
Solved
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Problems are the particular of
solid waste generated. Determine the
total moisture content on wet and dry
basis.
2. A residential area of about 40ha
contains 400 single family residences
and 8ha with multiple-family units
housing 400 people. With two curb-side
pick ups per week, how many trips on
each collection day would one packer
truck need to make to serve this area if
its capacity is 5 tones ? Assume four
residents per single-family unit.
Solution
Population served:
 Single family at 4 residents per
unit=4*400
=
1600 people
Multiple family at 50 residents per
hectare
=50*8 = 400
people
Total =1600+400 = 2000 people
 Waste quantity:
Assume the residential per capital
[Link] the area required for a new landfill
site with a projected life of 20 years for a
population of 150000 ,generating 2.5 kg per
household per day. Assume the density of waste
is 400 kg/m3 and 5 persons per household. A
planning restriction limits the height of the
landfill to10m.

Solution
Solution
 Total waste generated = 2.5/5 x (150,000)
= 75000 kg/day
= 27.375 x 106 kg/year
 Volume of landfill space required = (27.375 x
106kg/year)/400kg/m3
= 68437.5 m3/year
Required land area = 68437.5m3/10m
= 6843.75 m2/year
 Increasing this area by 50% to allow for roads, receiving areas,
fencing, etc, required area for 20 years becomes
Areq. = 6843.75 m2/year x 20years x 1.5
= 205312.5 m2
= 21 ha.

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