Identifying Environmental Impacts of Solid Waste Landfill Using of Site Selection Criteria (Case Study; Solid Waste Landfill of Rasht)

Landfill of Rasht has been selected without any site selection process. Pollutants from this site, which is located near to Siahroud River, are discharged into Anzali Wetland. This research aims to evaluate landfill of Rasht by current methods for identifying impacts. In this study, landfill site selecting methods such as Oleckno, Drastic and Monavari method was used and compared together. The results show that this site was classified as a good category in Oleckno Method, moderate in Drastic method and unacceptable category in Monavari method. Comparing the results shows a heavy variation. The reasons of this differ in number of parameters and also for the lack of weighting in some methods. Also the results show that considering more parameters in evaluating of landfills can reveal more negative impacts. This research reveals that, the methods whit both specific weight and abundance of parameters show more reasonable results.