Abstract: Rapid increase in urbanization and per capita income has lead to high rate of Municipal Solid Waste(MSW) generation (0.34kg/capita/day in 2016) and it is expected to have even higher rate of 0.70 kg/capita/day. In many developing countries solid waste is collected from the source and is disposed by open dumping. There is very minimal treatment and very less human control in open dumping. Open dumping has huge environmental impacts. Hence, a better approach to this situation is needed. Many methods like bioreactor landfill have been successfully implemented in many developing countries but these methods have large area demand and large operational and maintenance costs. Also, these methods are centralized incurring large transportation costs..............
Keywords: Municipal Solid Waste, Calorific value, Incineration, additive materials.
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