Monitoring Expanse Near LakhodairLandfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore,Paksitan
Solid waste management in any large urban city like Lahore requires special disposal measures. In this regard, Lakhodair landfill and Mehmood booti dump sitescollect and handle major bulk of all the solid waste coming from ten towns of Lahore, with the city’s waste generation rate of...
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doaj-8b5d518e4e4749deb27418a2fa54a27e2020-11-25T02:06:01ZengSociety of Economic Geologists and Mineral TechnologistsInternational Journal of Economic and Environment Geology2223-957X2223-957X2020-02-011044045Monitoring Expanse Near LakhodairLandfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore,PaksitanMaimoona Khalil, Nausheen Mazhar, Dania Amjad0Department of Geography, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan. Department of Geography, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United KingdomSolid waste management in any large urban city like Lahore requires special disposal measures. In this regard, Lakhodair landfill and Mehmood booti dump sitescollect and handle major bulk of all the solid waste coming from ten towns of Lahore, with the city’s waste generation rate of being 0.84kg/capita per day. Spatial expanse of both the sites was calculated in Arc GIS 10.3 system. The findings clearly showed that the extent of both these dump sites had increased during 2006-2016 due to an enormous rise in solid waste generation. During 2006, the area of Mehmood Booti dump site and Lakhodair Landfill site was only 15 hectares and 17 hectares respectively. By 2016, this area had increased to 32 hectares and 52 hectares respectively. The mapping of these two sites can help in future researches based on investigating the disease patterns among people residing around these sites and by determining methane emissions in the study areahttp://www.econ-environ-geol.org/index.php/ojs/article/view/351/250remote sensinggissolid wastelandfillopen dumpsiteslahore |
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Monitoring Expanse Near LakhodairLandfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore,Paksitan |
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Monitoring Expanse Near LakhodairLandfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore,Paksitan |
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Monitoring Expanse Near LakhodairLandfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore,Paksitan |
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Monitoring Expanse Near LakhodairLandfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore,Paksitan |
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Monitoring Expanse Near LakhodairLandfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore,Paksitan |
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monitoring expanse near lakhodairlandfill and mehmood booti dump sites of lahore,paksitan |
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Society of Economic Geologists and Mineral Technologists |
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International Journal of Economic and Environment Geology |
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2223-957X 2223-957X |
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Solid waste management in any large urban city like Lahore requires special disposal measures. In this regard, Lakhodair landfill and Mehmood booti dump sitescollect and handle major bulk of all the solid waste coming from ten towns of Lahore, with the city’s waste generation rate of being 0.84kg/capita per day. Spatial expanse of both the sites was calculated in Arc GIS 10.3 system. The findings clearly showed that the extent of both these dump sites had increased during 2006-2016 due to an enormous rise in solid waste generation. During 2006, the area of Mehmood Booti dump site and Lakhodair Landfill site was only 15 hectares and 17 hectares respectively. By 2016, this area had increased to 32 hectares and 52 hectares respectively. The mapping of these two sites can help in future researches based on investigating the disease patterns among people residing around these sites and by determining methane emissions in the study area |
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remote sensing gis solid waste landfill open dumpsites lahore |
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