This document provides an outline and overview of solid waste management. It discusses the classification and composition of solid wastes in Hong Kong, as well as various disposal and treatment methods like sanitary landfills, incineration, composting, and recycling. It covers the relevant legislation and Hong Kong's solid waste management strategy. Transfer stations and their functions are also explained. The document examines the environmental impacts of construction and solid waste, and introduces environmental management systems and ISO 14000 standards.
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Outline
1. Introduction
2. Refuse Disposal/collection in Buildings
3. Transfer Station
4. Solid Waste Disposal Methods
5. Sanitary Landfills
6. Legislation of Waste Control/Management
7. Solid Waste Management Strategy in Hong Kong
8. Construction & Environment
9. Environmental Management System
10. Appendix 1 โ Wastes
11. Appendix 2 โ What have we done ?
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Introduction
1. Classification of Solid Wastes
2. Composition of Wastes in Hong Kong
3. Recycle, Recover, and other pretreatment processes
4. Summary of Waste Disposal Methods
5. What are the problems we are facing on solid waste
disposal ?
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Classification of Solid Wastes
โข Domestic wastes
โข Commercial wastes
โข Industrial wastes including food-processing residue,
ash, plastic, package wastes, etc.
โข Construction wastes
โข Hospital wastes
โข Bulky waste including trees, furniture, telephone poles,
etc.
โข Hazardous wastes comprising of explosives,
radioactive materials, toxic material, etc.
โข Others : marine mud, sludge, livestock, abattoir, PFA,
etc.
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Methods of Waste Disposal
โข Domestic Wastes โ by landfill, incineration, recycling
โข Construction wastes โ by public dump, recycle,
landfill,
โข Dredged & Excavated spoil โ by marine dumping,
public dumping
โข Etcโฆโฆ.
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What are the major solid wastes in HK ?
โข Construction & Demolition
โข Domestics
โข Industrial
โข Commercial
โข Special
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How Construction Wastes are disposed of ?
โข Reclamation (public dump)
โข By landfills
โข Moving towards more dumping dump
โข Not much reuse
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What are the major composition of Domestic Wastes ?
โข Putrescibles
โข Papers
โข Plastics
โข Others
โข Textiles, metals, Glass, Bulky wastes
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What are the major composition of Industrial & Commercial
Wastes ?
โข Papers
โข Plastics
โข Rattan/Wood
โข Putrescibles
โข Others
โข Metals, glass, bulky wastes
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Disposal of chemical wastes
โข Chemical wastes disposed at Chemical wastes
Treatment centre at Tsing Yi,
โข Others by landfills
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What conclusion can you draw ?
โข Disposal is mainly one-way result in resource scarcity
at one end and disposal problems at the other.
โข Papers, Construction wastes, glass, etc. are valuable
wastes that can be recycled, reused, recover
โข Government should promote to use less and produce
less wastes
โข A lot of wastes are disposed of by landfill that requires
a lot of land
โข Landfill also creates environmental problems such as
groundwater, air and noise pollution, explosion, traffic,
disease, etc.
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Use of Pre-treatment process
(see figure)
โข Grinding
โข Pulverizing
โข Sorting
โข Separating
โข Compacting
โข Reuse, Recycle
โข Disposed of by landfill, incineration,
โข Generate power
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What other countries are doing ?
โข Recycling and resource recovery in Japan โ well
organised and successful
โข Use of other methods such as composting, pyrolysis,
Anaerobic digestion
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What are the functions of a transfer station ?
โข Compaction
โข Size reduction by grinding, shredding, pulverising
โข Material recovery
โข Loading for transportation
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What are the considerations of a transfer
station ?
โข Haul distance to the disposal site
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Transfer Station in HK
โข 1992 โ Island East
โข 1994 - Sha Tin
โข 1997 โ Island west, Kowloon west
โข 1998 - outlying islands
โข 2000 - NWNT
โข 2005 - NNT
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Pros of Sanitary Landfill
โข Process is sanitary
โข Highly skilled personnel not required
โข After restoration, landfill site can become recreational
land
โข Natural resource returned to land
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Cons of Sanitary Landfill
โข Large area is required
โข Transportation cost
โข Produce hazardous gas
โข Ground and Surface Water contamination
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Selection of Landfill site
โข Economic
โข Socioeconomic
โข Environmental/Geotechnical
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Process of Landfill
โข Trench method โ trucks dump the wastes
into trench and a bulldozer spreads &
compacts, and covers them at the end of
day
โข Area method โ bulldozers spread out the
waste and a scraper hauls the cover
materials
โข Ramp method โ the wastes are compacted
but the cover is excavated directly in front
of the working face
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What are the problems with landfill ?
โข Groundwater contamination by
leachate
โข Gas generation
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What is leachate ?
โข Leachate is a liquid produced from
a landfill that contains dissolved,
suspended and/or microbial
contaminants from solid wastes
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How leachate can be contained ?
1. Provide soil cover and surface drainage to
prevent infiltration of rain
2. Liners to contain or attenuate the leachates
3. Use under drains (single or double) to collect
the leachate for further treatment
4. Use slurry cut off wall/trench to contain the
leachate
5. To select a site in arid area
6. To select a site above ground water
7. To continuously monitor groundwater quality
in the vicinity of the site
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What typical gases are generated from landfill ?
โข CH4
โข CO
โข H2S
โข N2
โข NH4
โข H2
โข โฆ
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How Gas Generation is controlled ?
1. Passive Venting โ the local geology
allows the migration of gas to be
collected by perimeter trench
2. Active Venting โ install gas
extraction vent which is connected
to a vacuum or blower to force the
gas for collection
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What Constitute a good landfill ?
1. Aesthetics measures regarding health
and safety and quality of life of
neighbours or pass by
2. Ground water protection
3. Surface water protection
4. Control of landfill gas
5. On site health & safety
๏ฎProvide Extensive protection on
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Aesthetics
1. Provide slope berm and vegetation
along the perimeter of the site
2. Provide dust screen
3. Prevent wind-blown dust
4. Prevent erosion and animals
5. Do not allow ponding of water
6. Compact and cover waste daily
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Groundwater protection
1. Provide liner
2. Provide leachate collection system
3. No groundwater around site
4. Provide ground water monitoring
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Surface water protection
1. Choose site in arid (dry) area
2. Provide surface drainage to divert
surface runoff
3. No ponding of water on site
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Control of landfill gas
1. Provide fully lined landfill
2. Provide active venting system
3. Choose site away from people
4. Monitor gas around site
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On site health & safety
1. Cover soil daily
2. Confine in-coming waste to one
working area
3. Provide safety training and safety
procedures
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What are the legislation for Waste
Management
โข Waste Disposal Ordinance, 1980-
responsible for licensing of all types
of wastes
โข Regulations for livestock wastes in
1987.
โข Regulations for chemical waste
disposal, 1992.
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What are the industries and community
facilities that require special requirements for
waste disposal ?
โข Industries e.g.
โข Electricity, gas generation
โข Metal finishing
โข Printed circuit board,
โข Tannery processing
โข ..etc
โข Community facilities e.g.
โข abattoirs
โข Hospitals
โข Markets, cooked food stalls
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Government structure
โข Policy Development โ Environmental
Protection Department
โข Service Provision โ Refuse collection (FEH);
Special Waste collection (EPD); Solid Waste
disposal (EPD); Special waste disposal (EPD);
Sewage treatment (DSD)
โข Legislation enforcement โ Waste
import/export (EPD); Livestock waste (EPD);
Marine dumping (EPD); Domestic waste
storing, collection, littering (FEH);
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Waste Management in HK
1. Municpal disposal by - 3 large landfills, 9 planned transfer
stations
2. Construction wastes disposal by - public dump for
reclamation after segregation, sorting and recycling. Also
adopt Polluters Pay Principle
3. 30% clinical waste by incineration and 70% by landfill
4. Marine mud by controlled dumping at specified seabed
5. Waste reduction Plan by
1. Waste minimisation by changes in peopleโs practice
2. Waste recovery and recycling
3. Reduce the volume of waste
4. Disposal in environmentally satisfactory ways
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Impact of Construction
1. Continuous reclamation
2. Extraction of fossil fuel
and minerals
3. Consumption of
resources
4. Construction activities
1. Cause changes to
ecosystem
2. Loss of forest
3. Loss of cultivated land
4. Air, noise, groundwater,
ozone pollution
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Measures to reduce Impact to
Environment
1. Reuse of building materials โ e.g. use brick on
pavement surface instead of concrete
2. Recycle of materials โ e.g. Use crushed
concrete for roadbase
3. Reduce energy consumption โ e.g. use less
energy means less electricity means less
wastes from electric company
4. Design & build energy efficient buildings
5. Promotion by education programme
6. Conduct EIA and EMS
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What is a EMS
โข EMS is a systematic approach for
implementing environment
management particularly at
organisation level.
โข Through identifying, minimising,
preventing and managing the
environment impacts
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What does EMS consist ?
โข 1. Environmental policy
โข 2. Organisation Structure
โข 3. Environmental Management
Programme
โข 4. Audit of the programme &
system
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Why EMS ?
โข Comply with legislation
โข Demand from customers
โข Competition
โข Save cost
โข Reduce risk
โข Investment approval
โข Pressure from environmentalists
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What is ISO14000 ?
โข A series of standards on
environmental management
โข ISO14001 set out the framework in
management system for
โข tracking environmental
performance,
โข setting objectives,
โข developing procedures, and
โข reviewing progress.