Sampling old municipal wastes

[Richa Singh]

Hello ppl,

Do we have any standard protocol or guidelines for sampling Municipal wastes in an old waste dump site?

Plz help!

Thanks and Regards
Richa

[Utsav Shashvatt]

I personally do not know if such a protocol exists, but you can email people in academia, one of our professors Dr Anil Dikshit has probably researched this areas http://www.cese.iitb.ac.in/people/facinfo.php?id=dikshit#research.

[Utsav Shashvatt]

CPCB has some literature on it
http://www.cpcb.nic.in/upload/NewItems/NewItem_149_Protocol.pdf
EPA also has some literature on it
https://www.epa.ie/pubs/advice/licensee/EPA%20Landfill%20Monitoring...

[P. Nand Kishore]

It depends on why you want to sample MSW from old dumpsite. What is the purpose ? Do you want to check whether after sieving, the fine material can be used as compost ? A representative sample can be lifted by cone and quarter method, sometimes you may like to lift samples from different depths of the heap (by simply digging or using auger)..

[ganesan viswanathan]

Dear Richa Singh,

The Old Dump Sites of MSW are  mixure of MSW & Bio Medical waste.Once the MSW s are contaminated with Bio medical waste.The entire waste shall be treated as Bio medical waste and treated accordingly.Recovery of any recyclable /Reusable substances resulting to Health hazard.There are only two Options.

i) Tne Entire waste shall be rearranged and capsuled/closed as Sanitary Land Fill.

ii)The Waste in large shall have high calorific value.Hence it may be disposed through Waste TO Energy Plant.

Rgs

Ganesan

 

[Richa Singh]

Thank u so much for your kind suggestions Sir :)


ganesan viswanathan said:

Dear Richa Singh,

The Old Dump Sites of MSW are  mixure of MSW & Bio Medical waste.Once the MSW s are contaminated with Bio medical waste.The entire waste shall be treated as Bio medical waste and treated accordingly.Recovery of any recyclable /Reusable substances resulting to Health hazard.There are only two Options.

i) Tne Entire waste shall be rearranged and capsuled/closed as Sanitary Land Fill.

ii)The Waste in large shall have high calorific value.Hence it may be disposed through Waste TO Energy Plant.

Rgs

Ganesan

 

[Richa Singh]

Thank you so much for the prompt reply sir.
The purpose is to adopt economically and technically feasible technology solution for the treatment of existing wastes in a dumpsite and reclamation of the same. But before that we need to do the sampling. I was looking for any standard protocol/guidelines for sampling of wastes in an old waste dumping site. (how many sampling locations, sampling depth, sample quantity etc.)

P. Nand Kishore said:

It depends on why you want to sample MSW from old dumpsite. What is the purpose ? Do you want to check whether after sieving, the fine material can be used as compost ? A representative sample can be lifted by cone and quarter method, sometimes you may like to lift samples from different depths of the heap (by simply digging or using auger)..

[Richa Singh]

Thanks!
Utsav Shashvatt said:

CPCB has some literature on it
http://www.cpcb.nic.in/upload/NewItems/NewItem_149_Protocol.pdf
EPA also has some literature on it
https://www.epa.ie/pubs/advice/licensee/EPA%20Landfill%20Monitoring...