The drunks will steal from them.. However, the impact reductions are lower when biogas is exploited for generating biofuel. Figure 3. However, in the REF, 97% of the generated methane is flared with no recovery and 3% is lost to the atmosphere (Borjesson and Berglund, 2006). Two alternative scenarios are proposed in which the Aikan Technology is implemented in Bordo Poniente to replace the existing composting technology, and is combined with transitioning the current post-treatment of the closed landfill gas by flaring, to collection that provides Mexico City with combined heat and electricity. The landfills operations employ two hundred people, and each year, 50,000 school children visit the site to learn about climate change and environmentally responsible garbage management. Methane is up to 28 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth, and garbage can continue to emit gases even years after a landfill is closed. Fashion and Waste: What Are the Largest Landfills on Earth? Some are effective, contemporary, and cutting-edge, while others are unhygienic and pose significant threats to human and environmental health. Until 2011, the methane generated from the landfill in Bordo Poniente was not being collected for energy, but was rather flared, that is, it was transformed to carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere. But city officials say they are bringing the problem of Mexico Citys trash under control, finding uses for much of the garbage before sending the remainder to the dump. BioCycle Global estimates that its waste disposal capacity is 1.765,000 metric tons. We should all try to do our bit to preserve our environment from all the rubbish we produce through our collective waste. Avoided production of N and P contributed less to the decrease (99 and 19 MJ ton1 of organic waste, respectively). For estimating direct emissions from composting the amount of organic waste (i.e., food and yard waste) is required (IPCC, 2006). This study should also represent a starting point for policies intending to reach bilateral agreements with more developed countries such as Denmark (Coelho et al., 2018), and thus beginning the international exchange of information and strategies. Goedkoop, M., Heijungs, R., Huijbregts, M., De Schryver, A., Struijs, J., and van Zelm, R. (2013). Data Quality Guideline for the Ecoinvent Database Version 3. Data on the total amount of organic waste composted in 2014 was provided by the Environment Department of Mexico (SEDEMA., 2014) and is provided in Table S3 (see Supplementary Information). In December of 2011 the landfill portion of Bordo Poniente was closed, and therefore, beginning in 2012 it only received organic waste for composting. NPR's Richard Knox has recently reported on the health risks plaguing Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is the largest composting plant serving Mexico City with an annual capacity of about 912,500 tons of organic waste and an area of 30 hectares (Duran Moreno et al., 2013). Anything you change is going to alter that tradition, he said. Int. Public tenders were an effective mechanism for supporting this waste-to-energy project. We have no reason to believe these numbers have lowered in the time since, as online fast fashion retail soars. Where there are humans, there is trash. Green measures: As reported by the South Korean Ministry of Environment, they produce 50 MW of electricity by harnessing the methane gas in the garbage at the Sudokwon landfill. In January, neighborhood protests in the towns near the landfills temporarily blocked Mexico City from trucking the garbage there. Its the countrys largest landfill. Task 37 - Energy from Biogas and Landfill Gas. The neighborhood garbage trucks carry their own pepenadores, three or four volunteers who dig through household waste. Positive impacts of the project include enough clean energy to power about 35,000 homes plus public streetlights as well as the creation of local construction and operation jobs. This is in line with the goal of build back better after the pandemic, said Pon. Figure 2. Green measures The development of renewable energy resources in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. CIUDAD NEZAHUALCYOTL, Mexico Pablo Tllez Falcn has long ruled supreme over one of the worlds largest dumps at the edge of Mexico City. ISO14040:2006. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva. In 2009, the Mexican federal government suspended plans for building Centros Integrales de Reciclado y Energa (CIRE - Integral Waste-to-Energy Plants) because of heated opposition from local residents in the locations chosen. The Bordo Poniente landfill is famously known for being one of the worlds most polluted and contaminated landfills. The 326-acre Deonar landfill on an eastern Mumbai suburb is the oldest dump in India, having been set up by the British in 1927. A few weeks ago, though, the city closed its giant Bordo Poniente landfill for good, padlocking the gate and trucking the garbage to distant new dumps. More than 1,000 trash pickers rely on the refuse at the Bordo Poniente landfill everyday for their livelihood. As the human population increase and become richer and more wasteful, the size and scale of rubbish heaps continue to grow, sometimes reaching unfathomable proportions and dimensions. The Ecology and Development Centre identified at least 30 failed garbage dump projects since the 1980s. An international public tender to generate clean electricity from landfill methane was released shortly thereafter. However, production of N fertilizer drives a moderate decrease of net CO2 emissions (8 kg CO2eq ton1 of organic waste). The garbage will never run out, predicted Mr. Tllez, who is 74, at the start of an hourlong monologue during which he cited Socrates (despite being illiterate himself) and compared himself to Galileo. Toxic substances, including arsenic, mercury, excessive levels of ammonia, nitrogen, and bacteria, have polluted the air, underground aquifers, and soils. Mater. These are complex processes., He has no confidence in city officials plans to reduce and compost garbage. Green measures: At that time, a power company known as BMLMX had just secured a deal with the Government of Mexico to use the methane from the landfill site to create electric power that would be able to light the streets of Mexico for the next 25 years. These little scraps w, Disability & Fashion: What You Need to Know & Whos Leading the Conversation. "The cumulative sewage of 3 million people flows through open ditches. Results are displayed as equivalent kg of CO2 per ton of dry weight organic waste. Generally, the SW is mixed and requires sorting prior to further treatment, thus increasing the total costs of the SW management system (Santibez et al., 2013). Indeed, transfer of environmental related technology and information from developed to developing countries is needed especially because in the latter, municipalities face budget insufficiencies, lack knowledge, lack equipment, and have deficient infrastructure (Abarca et al., 2013). The garbage was not separated, covered or compacted, but was often burned. In the past two decades, the number of garments produced annually has doubled. This paper represents a first step toward a complete assessment of a potential technology transfer between Denmark and Mexico. It is estimated that this measure will avoid at least 70% of the 1.4 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2e) equivalent that the landfill would have generated by 2050. Working Paper by Lisa Viscidi. For the REF scenario, the impact was roughly balanced (Figure 5). "We are tossing valuable materials into the trash, and there is the whole problem of the absence of re-use and recycling. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency reports that landfill gas accounts for 17.7 percent of all the nations methane emissions. The methane gas produced from decomposing waste there is tapped to be used for electricity and fuel. In this paper we perform a life cycle assessment (LCA) to compare the environmental performances of the existing, and two alternative waste management systems in Mexico City. Why dont they give them real contracts? he said. The Aikan Technology starts with the separation of organic from the inorganic matter (e.g., plastic bags, metals) by means of a sorter. The Aikan Technology consists of three phases: (i) hydrolysis, where solid organic matter is made soluble by microbial enzymatic degradation, (ii) methane production, where bacteria transform volatile organic matter into methane, and (iii) composting, where organic matter is sanitized and transformed into compost. Copyright 2019 Chvez, Caro and Thomsen. However, technology transfer cannot succeed without a pre-assessment in terms of environmental, economic, technological, and socio-cultural performances. An indigenous community in southern Venezuela says it is being marginalized by the government. S1 was also the best performing scenario with regards to fossil depletion, scoring 52 kg oil eq ton1 of organic waste (Figure 4). CC: data analysis and paper writing; DC: paper writing; MT: paper writing and general supervision. Gabriel Quadri de la Torre, a former federal environmental official who is running for president under the banner of a minor party, said that with proper management, the city could have used Bordo Poniente for many more years, piling new layers on older parts of the dump. B., Lybk, R., Garcilasso, V. P., Mariano, M., et al. Governments are developing The Puente Hills Landfill into a regional park for outdoor enjoyment. Personnel with a low educational level operate the waste management system in Mexico City (Buenrostro and Bocco, 2003; Zurita et al., 2018). The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2019.00030/full#supplementary-material, Abarca, L. G., Maas, G., and Hogland, W. (2013). Save the planet. Theres also an issue of waste within the luxury fashion industry: in 2018, it became public knowledge that Burberry had destroyed over. However, cooperation among national and local governments proved challenging (Huh and Kim, 2018). A functional unit of 1 ton (dry weight) of organic waste feedstock was used to quantify all inputs and outputs of the treatment processes in order to compare the resource use efficiency and environmental performance of the REF and alternative scenarios. Scenario 1 performed best in all three categories, and while S2 also provided impact reduction, it was lower than S1. Overall, Hector Castillo Berthier tells the paper he estimates some 250,000 people in Mexico City rely on trash. Rev. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), globally, approximately 2.01 billion tons of solid waste are generated yearly. The site is also being converted into a recreational regional park. Challenges for biogas production and use in Brazil and lessons to learn from Denmark, in European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings 2018 (26thEUBCE) (Copenhagen), 14931494. There is also a waste museum on the site. The most relevant contribution in scenario S2 for avoiding impacts was the substitution of transportation fuel with biofuel, causing avoided emissions from diesel of 112 kg CO2eq ton1 of organic waste (dry weight; Figure 3). We have made great advances, and now others are coming to take the business we have created.. A guideline on separate waste collection was adopted with new waste regulations in July 2017 and is expected to increase the amount of reused or recycled waste and decrease the amount of illegal waste disposal (Tsydenova et al., 2018). This study represents a preliminary step in terms of environmental assessment and thus provides important information for policymakers attempting to achieve more sustainable management of solid waste in Mexico. According to the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD), the landfill was opened in 1957 as the privately owned San Gabriel Valley Dump. (2013). Waste Manag. Ruiz, B., Rodrguez-Padilla, V., and Martnez, J. The Deonar landfill has a 2,000-ton-per-day capacity and receives 5,500 tons of garbage daily. In any given day, the city generates over 8,000 tons of waste, with 3,800 tons coming from households and the rest from institutions. Apex Regional (2,200 acres / 890 hectares). The methane gas from the landfill has been converted to annually generate 102,189 MW-hours of green energy that serves to power 100,000 homes. (accessed September 2018). Around the globe, waste can tell both an environmental and social story. First, officials cracked down on illegal dumping by other states at Bordo Poniente. It mixes with ubiquitous piles of garbage," Knox reports. Green measures: CLP installed power production units at the West New Territories (WENT) Landfill to assist the Governments objective of boosting waste-to-energy and renewable energy programs. Wherever there are people, there is always garbage. / 48.93472N 10.97444E / 48.93472; 10.97444. 2017, 19. 30, 469485. As process, the municipal waste collection service by 21 metric ton lorry (average valid for all the countries e.g., GLO) was used. Res. This study provides relevant information in terms of environmental performances and thus constitutes a preliminary reference point demonstrating the potential environmental benefits of technology transfer between developed and developing countries. Municipal authorities documented severe respiratory diseases within this population, which had an average life expectancy of 50 years. Negative values represent avoided impacts, or positive impacts (a potential environmental benefit). China produces 189,000,000 tons of trash annually, and the Laogang dump alone collects more than 36,50,000 tons of municipal waste, equivalent to 5% of the combined waste. In 2017, it was estimated that the fashion industry. 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Available online at: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:645158/FULLTEXT01.pdf (accessed September 2018). We estimated the distance of the transport as average distance between all the districts in Mexico City and Bordo Poniente. In both S1 and S2 the compost is used in the agricultural sector as a soil amendment that substitutes for some production and use of mineral fertilizer. Available online at: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/mexico_renewable_energy_future_0.pdf, Persson, M., Jonsson O, and Wellinger, A. He ticks them off: street sweepers, garbage collectors, pepenadores, junk dealers and the families they support. While we all understand the concept and have seen the occasional landfill throughout our lives, the locations and characteristics of the biggest ones arent as widely known. Figures 35 report the LCA results calculated for the climate change, fossil depletion, and cumulative energy demand, respectively. Energy Rev. Local authorities thought, . 39, 251263. (2018). While technology transfer and financial assistance, from developed countries to developing countries, are still hard to obtain, the Clean Development Mechanism may provide important opportunities. It covers an area of 600 hectares and was receiving 12,600 tonnes of waste a day, 7,000 of them from municipalities in the state of. The methane generation from landfill is estimated by using the IPCC waste modeling according to IPCC (2006) (see Supplementary Information for more details about the estimation). According to the International Energy Agency, if methane were efficiently harnessed for such uses from the New Delhi dumps, 25 Megawatts of electricity might be generated. It is situated on the river Altmhl, 11 km south of Weienburg in Bayern . For instance, we found that both S1 and S2 scenarios would save a relevant quantity of CO2e ton1 of organic waste compared to REF (Figure 3). Meng, Y., Ling, T. C., and Mo, K. H. (2018). 33, 11511158. Over 700,000 trees have been planted on the Sudokwon landfill, according to South Pole Carbon Asset Management Limited. Therefore, the production of electricity and heat was more important than the production of biofuel in terms of environmental impact mitigation. That's 50 percent more than it created in 2007 and expected to double over the next 12 years. Presidents no longer come calling. REF represents the reference scenario with compost production without biogas recovery; S1 represents biogas recovery and composting through Aikan Technology for electricity and heat providing; and S2 represents biogas recovery and composting through Aikan Technology for biofuel production for the transport sector. Don Pablo, as all the workers call Mr. Tllez, presides from an office decorated with photographs showing him accompanied by presidents. Our analysis evaluates the potential environmental advantages of implementing Aikan Technology that recovers biogas used for electricity, heat, and biofuel production in Mexico. While officials were looking forward to new ways of recycling, burning and composting waste, there was opposition. Weidema, B. P., Bauer, C., Hischier, R., Mutel, C., Nemecek, T., Reinhard, J., et al. This waste is deposited in the Narela Bawana, Bhalswa, Okhla, and Ghazipur landfills, which have a combined acreage of 316. Available online at: at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/581913/EPRS_STU%282017%29581913_EN.pdf, G20 (2017). When it comes to tackling global environmental problems, international agreements ascribe high importance to environmental technology transfer. Waste is dumped into these cells through conveyor belts, dump trucks, and excavators. In this context, transitioning the waste management system to more sustainably harvest and provide bioenergy will allow Mexico to reduce the environmental impacts associated with the waste and energy sector (Tsydenova et al., 2018). Or buy some modern trucks?. Inventario de Residuos Slidos CDMX - 2014. The crisis became acute as "more urban areas became densely populated, so that waste was further concentrated," said Ramn Ojeda, secretary-general of the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation (ICEAC). Daily, over 7,200 tons of Hong Kongs waste (as of 2014) are deposited in the WENT landfill. La Chureca was the largest open dumpsite in Central America and received more than 4 million cubic metres of waste during its lifetime. From 2012, Bordo Poniente plant only receives organic waste for composting. In case of cumulative energy demand, a positive value corresponds to energy consumption whereas negative value is avoided energy consumption. This excess causes the waste to pile up to nearly 30 meters. The consumption of hydrocarbon fuels in Mexico has been increasing over time and in 2014 it resulted about 88.7% of the gross primary energy supply (Alemn et al., 2014). The 2003 Federal Waste Law regulates waste management and procedures for opening and closing waste dumps, but does not clarify who owns the garbage - the source producer, the collector or the waste dump manager? In the last 10 years, governments have closed some of the most polluted landfills in the region, including sprawling facilities in Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua. 39, 14. In S1, biogas recovery is exploited to provide heat and electricity. Actions, including agenda in policy development, formulation, adoption, and evaluation, are also required to achieve the goal of reducing carbon emissions and waste generation while providing energy in a profitable manner. A few weeks ago, though, the city closed its giant Bordo Poniente landfill for good, padlocking the gate and trucking the garbage to distant new dumps. The largest landfill in the world is the Bordo Poniente landfill in Mexico City, Mexico. All the distances and the average distance estimated (16 km) are showed in Table S5 (see Supplementary Information). The metropolitan area of Mexico City, home to some 24 million people, has only two garbage dumps in the state of Mexico, and they are in danger of overflowing now that Bordo Poniente is closed. add this location to a collection. Italys Malagrotta trash dump is the largest in Europe. And that is even before the city deals with the opposition Mr. Aboitiz expects to face from the sanitation workers union. They are going to bet on a reshuffling of the informal systems.. Municipal wastewater treatment in Mexico: current status and opportunities for employing ecological treatment systems. Some 250 poor families lived inside the huge La Chureca dumpsite, in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, which was closed in 2016. In S2, biogas is upgraded and exploited to produce biofuel for use in the transport sector. (2017). Sci. Only one-tenth of the garbage they sort through can be set aside for recycling. Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production. The electricity produced is transferred to the national grid, and thus avoids the production and use of coal-based combined heat and power. The Bordo Poniente landfill site has been in use since 1985. Sustainability. The massive landfill in Incheon, South Korea, is 570 acres in size and was documented by photographer Michael Wolf in 2007. The dump is located 200 miles from Raleigh, North Carolina, and currently holds the Guinness World Record for being the largest landfill in the world. He has to fulfill his commitment.. Concerning the collection and transport of waste, diesel-driven garbage trucks collect, and transport the waste to the Bordo Poniente plant. The Sudokwon landfill is an example of how waste materials may be effectively used for good. by United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal. International agreements ascribe a key role to environmental technology transfer, particularly when it is applied to global environmental problems (Chuffart, 2013; Coelho et al., 2018). Since its inception in 1992, the 4,292-acre Sudokwon landfill in Incheon, South Korea receives 18,000 to 20,000 tons of waste daily from Seoul, with a 22 million in population and the South Korean capital city. Coelho, S. T., Carmo, B. S., Holm-Nielsen, J. Futhermore, as human populations grow and affluent societies become increasingly wasteful, rubbish heaps grow as well, at times reaching unbelievable proportions and scales. In a year, China generates 189,000,000 tons of waste, according to a 2012 World Bank report on solid waste management around the world. The 618-acre Malagrotta Landfill in Rome, Italy has a holding capacity of 60 million tons. In February, The New York Times reported on the closing of the Bordo Poniente landfill in Mexico. IPCC (2006). It should be noted that Bordo Poniente landfill has been closed in 2011. Opt not to print. Afghan refugee Shafiq Mohammed, 9, and other children search through a dump on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Around 14 million people live in Guangzhou, making it the biggest metropolis in China. In S1 and S2, we considered a biogas yield of 80 Nm3 ton1 of organic waste (wet weight), of which about 70% is methane (Kristensen, 2014). Total Environ. This Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency is focusing on environmental justice, the "fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people" when it comes to environmental regulations and policies. In an Al-Jazeera video about the Warao, men, women and children pick through piles of garbage. Reference scenario refers to Bordo Poniente landfill, which is located 18 km northeast of Mexico City Center. The landfill has ceased to receive 3,600 tonnes of garbage a day, while 3,000 tonnes are going to make compost, 800 tonnes of plastic bottles, cardboard and metals are being recycled, and 600 tonnes are used to produce alternative fuels, according to the ministry of works and services. In addition to being a giant landfill in the country, a materials recovery plant is still in use there. Bear in mind that these lists can vary somewhat depending on the information provided by landfill owners and representatives, and weve taken into account the data from World Atlas. (2008). Fossil depletion (FD), expressed in kg oil eq. The yearly disposal quantities of SW for the last six decades, and the SW composition, at the Bordo Poniente landfill can be found in Tables S1, S2 (see Supplementary Information). Borjesson, P., and Berglund, M. (2006). 138, 298312. The operator of the landfill is Grupo Mexico, and it is the largest landfill operator in Mexico. This project focused on the production of renewable energy with high-energy waste from the city's Rafey landfill to provide a power supply that would foster commercialization in nearby communities and urban areas. The overall variations in LCA results among the three scenarios were mainly due to the different options proposed for biogas exploitation. Indeed, while keeping the separation plant open at Bordo Poniente placates the pepenadores, it makes little economic sense. 32, 140153. Closing open dumpsites and moving towards sustainable waste management systems is a key to achieving Clean Air for All, the theme of the first International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, observed on September 7, as established by the United Nations General Assembly. The city agreed not to close the separation plant where the pepenadores pick through garbage, even though it means the trash must first be delivered to Bordo Poniente, and then reloaded onto trucks to be hauled to the new dumps hours after the pepenadores have finished extracting what they can sell. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.224. Puente Hills methane gas is currently used to turn a 50-megawatt power turbine that generates enough power to fulfill the power needs of 70,000 Southern California homes. There are more and more layers of informality. The CH4 emission from the Bordo Poniente landfill was estimated using a First Order Decay (FOD) model (IPCC, 2006). The results of each impact category are examined via contribution analysis in the following sections. Regarding the process relative to the anaerobic digestion plant average global data from Ecoinvent as well as for Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potassium fertilizers. Renewable energy sources in the Mexican electricity sector. In the old days, politicians counted on the trash pickers as a base of support. Aikan Agri To-Faset Biogas og Kompostering af Organisk Affald Fra by og Land. Between 7000-8000 of trash are produced daily in the city. ICEAC was created in Mexico in 1994 with the aim of resolving environmental conflicts by negotiation between states, individuals and legally recognised bodies such as companies and NGOs. Recycling of wastes for value-added applications in concrete blocks: an overview. IEA Bioenergy. For the REF scenario, the largest impact was represented by emissions into the atmosphere (77 kg CO2eq ton1 of organic waste (Figure 3). United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Are you sure you want to print? Contam. How Much Waste Does US Produce Compared To The Rest Of The World. The project cut across the public services of waste management and electricity generation, so local political commitment was integral to success. The kg of oil eq released from the transport of organic waste (1.31 kg oil eq ton1 of organic waste) was near completely balanced by reductions caused by avoided production of N and P (1.05 and 0.18 kg oil eq ton1 of organic waste, respectively). It's also dangerous for the people, especially in a time of cholera. Positive performance values represent negative environmental impacts (a potential environmental burden or damage). As a result, toxic gases polluted the air, soil and water around the dumpsite, sickening locals, particularly the 2,500 waste pickers who combed the landfill for recyclables. Cumulative energy used to transport organic waste (62 MJ ton1 of organic waste) was reduced by avoided production of N and P (50 and 11 MJ ton1 of organic waste, respectively). Issues have included air contamination, soils poisoned from harmful chemicals, and underground aquifers. The estimation of disposed waste quantity in Bordo Poniente during the period 19602011 was developed using the per capita generation of waste by the Mexico City population. Concerning the electricity, the specific Mexican medium voltage (average valid for Mexico e.g., MX) provided by Ecoinvent was used. The boundaries of the system considered in this study are presented in Figure 1. Available online at: https://www.oecd.org/site/tadffss/Mexico-Peer-Review.pdf. As of 2014, plans were made by the Mexican government to tap into the landfills methane gases to produce 60 megawatts of electric power. 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