Monitoring of Inorganic Pollutant from a Waste Incineration Plant in Rainfall, Groundwater and Washed-Leaves Water

摘要

Incineration destroys hazardous waste, reduces mass and volume of residues and recovers energy content from un-recyclable materials. However, when compared with other methods, the combustion process has also the disadvantages of creating harmful solidwastes and large volume of toxic gaseous emissions. The concentrations of inorganic (heavy metals) and organic (dioxins and furans) pollutants in atmosphere increase. The airborne pollutants originating from various diffuse and point emission sources (namely: industry, farming practices, waste incineration, domestic heating systems and vehicular traffic) deposit on soil, vegetables and are also present in rainfall. The aim of this work is the identification of heavy metals in rainfall, in groundwater and in washed-leaves water, which describes the airborne particles fallen from the trees.