TITLE:
Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Site Selection in Jacobabad Using RS/GIS Techniques
AUTHORS:
Saba Zehra, Sheeba Afsar, Yasmeen Anis
KEYWORDS:
Solid Waste Management, Geographic Information System, Remote Sensing, Landfill Site
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.7 No.10,
October
16,
2019
ABSTRACT:
Solid
waste management is a worldwide concern, particularly in the developing countries. The solid waste disposal
and landfill site management is a serious issue. City planners and municipal
corporations have to confront with the problem of Municipal Solid Waste
Management all over the world, especially in the developing countries.
Population growth is responsible for an increase in residential, commercial and
infrastructure development, which poses adverse effects on the environment. One
of the most serious and challenging environmental challenge being faced by the
municipal corporations of developing countries is urban solid waste management.
Dumping of municipal waste in unsuitable areas poses serious challenges to the
local habitants of the neighborhood.
Municipal solid waste, if not properly managed, is one of the major
environmental issues that could further lead to different diseases’
transmission, aesthetic and odor nuisance, and atmospheric and water pollution,
etc. This paper aims to deal with the selection of suitable site for disposing
off municipal solid waste management being produced at the Jacobabad City using
Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing techniques. In the Jacobabad
City, the existing open dumping systems are not environmentally sound posing
serious environmental threats. Loads of generated waste (about 64 tons/day as
per 2012 estimates) has been dumped into the inappropriate sites. Keeping
in view the complicated process of landfill site, this study considers all the
environmental, social and technical factors (distances from residences,
proximity to road networks, schools, health facilities and reservoirs) to
determine the best site for Municipal Solid Waste disposal in Jacobabad City.
Different analysis like buffer analysis, Euclidean distance and overlay
analysis were also performed in this study to come up with the most suitable
landfill site.