Circular Economy in Municipal Solid Waste Landfilling: Biomining & Leachate Treatment

Dr Pankaj Pathak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. Her research interests include sustainable management of solid waste (MSW, e-waste, and industrial waste), green and clean energy resources, stabilization/solidification of contaminated soil/sediment, geochemistry. She has published several papers in top-ranking SCI journals as well as number of books/book chapters. She also serves as a reviewer for various international journals.Prof. Sankar Ganesh Palani is an Associate Professor of Environmental Biotechnology and the Coordinator of Global Sanitation Graduate School at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. He did his PhD in Environmental Science & Engineering from Pondicherry (Central) University, India and had his post-doctoral training at Institut National des Sciences Appliquees, Toulouse, France. Prof. Ganesh has about 24 years of sandwich experience in academia and industry across SAARC, the Middle East and European countries. Prof. Ganesh has been involved in several academic, translational, and societal projects on solid waste and wastewater treatment, focusing on anaerobic digestion. He has published 2 books, 14 book chapters, and 85 research papers in reputed international and national journals and conferences. Prof. Ganesh is a "Faculty-preneur" being the Director of 'AlMac ProTech' a startup company that has spun off from his research on high-rate thermophilic anaerobic digestion of organic waste.

• 1. Solid waste management and landfill in high-income countries.- 2. Landfill mining: significance, operation and global perspectives.- 3. Open dumps and circular economy: Assessing landfill mining potential, benefits and challenges for Indian dumpsites.- 4. Environmental issues due to open dumping and landfilling.- 5. Molecular tools- A future perspective approach for monitoring landfill leachates and validating bioremediation process.- 6. An Overview of Physicochemical and Biological Treatment of Landfill Leachate.- 7. Advancements in operation of bioreactor landfills for enhanced biodegradation of municipal solid waste.- 8. Anaerobic co-digestion of landfill leachate with other feedstocks.- 9. Anaerobic ammonia oxidation enrichment to enhance landfill leachate treatment.- 10. Valorization of inert solid waste from landfill activities.- 11. Biomined and Fresh Municipal Solid Waste as Sources of Refuse Derived Fuel.- 12. Recovery of Metal Values by Treating the Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Ashes.