Abstract
In Ivory Coast, most of the uncontrolled dumpsites are open-air and is one of the most common methods adopted. To study the impact of the solid waste on soil, soil samples were collected from the dumpsite of M’Ploussoue Park in Bonoua. The physical and chemical parameters such as size particle, pH, Exchangeable cations, CEC and the contents in heavy metals, were studied using various analytical techniques. It has been found that most of all the heavy metals analyzed contents exceeds the permissible limits in accordance with CCME soil quality standards. It’s conclude that M’Ploussoue Park dumpsite is characterized as polluted site whose the contamination is due to the solid waste materials that are dumped in the area.
Highlights
In Ivory Coast, most of the dumpsites are open-air (Kouamé and al., 2006) and is one of the most common methods adopted since years in almost all the cities, due to the low budget for waste disposal and non-availability of trained manpower (Hakkou and al., 2001)
The high organic matter content observed in open dumpsite soil than in control site soil could be attributed to the nature of various types of municipal solid wastes found in study area such as paper, used batteries, electronic goods, wood, plastic paper, straws, buckets, tin cans, sacks, clothes, glass bottles, cotton wool, food wastes, leaves, fruit wastes, medicine bottles, foams, ashes, water sachet, card board and human excreta
Other researchers attributed the high concentration of organic matter observed in the dumpsite soil to the presence of nonfermentable materials in the wastes which tend to resist to the decomposition and break down very slowly (Akpaki and al., 2014; Ziraba and al., 2016)
Summary
In Ivory Coast, most of the dumpsites are open-air (Kouamé and al., 2006) and is one of the most common methods adopted since years in almost all the cities, due to the low budget for waste disposal and non-availability of trained manpower (Hakkou and al., 2001). These last decades, the rapid rate of industrialization, population and modernization have contributed to generate million tons of solid wastes of different categories ( hazardous wastes, nonhazardous wastes) which are generally constituted of both the degradable and non-degradable substances (Praveena and Rao , 2016). Several wastes from different sources find the way
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