Since landfill leachate generally presents a lot more substantial environmental
threat as well as given the limitation on time, resources, and
the scale of the work undertaken, this must be noted that main scope of
this research study is only landfill leachate not landfill gas or landfillwaste. A cut off had to be drawn to define the manageable size of the
study and the word ‘holistic’ is used specifically within this scope
which is landfill leachate. Therefore, it is worth mentioning that the
term ‘holistic’ in this paper implies an overall framework with a wholesystem
and unified approach (Arquette et al., 2002; Aven and
Kristensen, 2005) that covers all aspects and factors of the baseline
study (See Section 3.2) from the start to end in the context of landfill
leachate only – neither landfill gas nor (more or less) degraded landfill
waste, as the inclusion of these two would have grown the paper
beyond limits and the depth of study specifically around landfill leachate
alone was going to be compromised.