1.2. Land Filling
Rapid advancement in the field of mining and real estate aroused the need of land filling .Proving its
worth land filling has emerged as one of the cheapest and easiest method of SWM burn out mines and
low level areas are target areas of dumping solid waste thus levelling the ground for useful purpose. This Anubhav Ojha et al. / APCBEE Procedia 1 ( 2012 ) 193 – 198 195
method suffers from the disadvantage of releasing poisonous gases like methane causing deterioration of
environment. This method is not applicable in upper lying areas.