The escalating loads of municipal solid waste (MSW) end up in open dumps and landfills,
producing continuous flows of landfill leachate. The risk of incorporating highly toxic landfill …

Nowadays, sanitary landfilling is the most common approach to eliminate municipal solid
waste, but a major drawback is the generation of heavily polluted leachates. These …

Leachate usually includes toxic organic and inorganic pollutants, heavy metals, ammonia
nitrogen compounds, and other dissolved and suspended contaminants. Careful …

Among the several biofilm-based bioreactors, moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR) have
been extensively used for wastewater treatment due to low operational costs, technical …

Municipal solid waste final disposal represents an environmental burden worldwide since
landfilling, or open dumping, is still the preferred solution for the end of life of solid discarded …

Landfills are the primary option for waste disposal all over the world. Most of the landfill sites
across the world are old and are not engineered to prevent contamination of the underlying …

This paper reviews the most relevant uses and applications of zeolites in anaerobic
digestion processes. The feasibility of using natural zeolites as support media for the …

With the continuous demand from industry for chemical raw materials, a large amount of
high-salinity wastewater containing phenol is discharged into the aquatic environment, and …

Last two decades have brought commendable respect for biofilm processes in wastewater
treatment. Preeminent components from both the biofilter processes and activated sludge …

Various processes that have been successfully developed for wastewater treatment
(treatment of industrial wastes/effluents) have been surveyed with special reference to …