Solid waste disposal comparison between open dumping and sanitary landfill (Kg. Pertok Machang, Kelantan (open dumping) and Puchong, Selangor (sanitary landfill) / Mohd Budiman Putra Hassan

• Main Author: Hassan, Mohd Budiman Putra
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Municipal refuse. Solid wastes; Sanitary landfills
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/24127/2/24127.PDF; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/24127/

Humans and animals have used the resources of the earth to support life and to dispose of wastes. In early times, the disposal of solid wastes did not pose a significant problem, for the population was small and the amount of land available for the assimilation of wastes was large. Ecological phenom...