Most of the cities in developing Asia are practicing open
dumping and partly controlled landfilling without gas recovery.
These simple disposal methods have well-documented adverse
impacts on climate change, human health and the environment and there is general agreement that improvements are needed [4,5]. Inaddition, space for landfill construction is limited in and around cities. Waste therefore often has to be transported long distances out of the urban area which requires additional resources and increases operation costs