Extended Environmental Multimedia Modeling System (EEMMS) with Analytic Hierarchy Process for Dual Evaluation of Energy Consumption and Pollutants in Solid Waste

The dual assessment of environmental risks and energy consumption of solid waste is crucial for ensuring environmental safety and energy consumption management. Using risk assessment tools to inform best management practices for reclamation is very important. In this paper, a former Extended Environmental Multimedia Modeling System (EEMMS) combined with the Monte Carlo Method (MCM) of risk assessment was further used for exploring the fate and migration of pollutant leakage in the CFSWMA landfill. Specifically, MODFLOW combined with the EEMMS-MCM system has been applied using Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) as a typical indicator to model the behavior of leachate components. An EEMMS-MCM integrated risk assessment for a 20-year period was conducted. The case study of BOD emissions from the CFSWMA landfill shows that even the leachate did not have a serious impact on Canadian territory during the 20 years; however, non-sorption chemicals are mainly affected by the groundwater flow, whereas sorption chemicals are affected by the partition coefficient (or sorption). Further, this study introduces energy consumption factors such as soil and surface water bodies, and constructs an integrated dual assessment framework for the environmental risks and energy consumption of pollutants. In summary, by integrating the EEMMS pollutant migration model with an environmental risk and energy consumption assessment, a dual assessment of environmental risks and energy consumption is achieved.