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Assessment of Additional Land Area Required for MSW Landfills/Dumps in Million-Plus Cities of India: Two Scenarios

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This paper examines the status of land being used for dumping municipal solid waste (MSW) in India. The additional land area required for disposal of municipal solid waste generated by 53 major urban cities of the country has been evaluated. Estimation of land requirement has been done considering two scenarios: one considering rapid adoption of waste processing done by municipalities leading to reduction of waste reaching landfills to 25% till end of year 2048 and other considering scenario of slow waste processing practice leading to reduction of waste reaching landfill to 50% till the end of year 2048. The analysis shows that 5685 hectares of additional land will be needed for rapid scenario and 11369 hectares will be needed for slow adopted scenario till year 2048. Thus increase in land demand by year 2048 can be reduced to half by ensuring the fast track adoption of waste processing to be done by municipalities.

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The authors acknowledge the support from IFCI Venture Capital Funds Ltd., New Delhi, for the research.

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  1. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Swati Rani, Manoj Datta & A. K. Nema

  2. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

    Amit Kumar

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Rani, S., Kumar, A., Datta, M., Nema, A.K. (2019). Assessment of Additional Land Area Required for MSW Landfills/Dumps in Million-Plus Cities of India: Two Scenarios. In: Ghosh, S. (eds) Waste Management and Resource Efficiency. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7290-1_42

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