Control Mechanism of Bad Odor Generated from Sanitary Landfill Leachate Using Swiss Pharm BioMist Berihun D * Department of Urban Environmental Management, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Sub City Wo. 11, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia * Corresponding author: Berihun D, Department of Urban Environmental Management, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Sub City Wo. 11, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tel: +251116600921; E-mail: dessalewb@gmail.com Received date: March 24, 2017; Accepted date: April 10, 2017; Published date: April 13, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Berihun D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract Among the variables that could influence the citizens’ sense of a healthy environment, odor emissions play an important role, as they deeply affect the human life quality and psycho-physical wellness. An odor is a mixture of light and small molecules that are able to stimulate an anatomical response in the human olfactory system. Sensory analyses by odor panels are important in defining odorous nuisances. Biodegradable mist can be applied to liquid or solid waste, as a surface treatment, by incorporation, or dosing during processing. As the limits of urbanization are extending to far flying areas in Addis Ababa, Sandefa Sanitary Landfill site has been established since December 2015. The new Sandefa Sanitary Landfill site is located about 35 km from Addis Ababa city and 5 km South-West of Lagedadi Dam, at North-Eastern side of Addis Ababa in Oromia Region, Finfine Zuria special zone, Bereh Woreda, in Ele Kebele close to a town called ‘Laga Tafo’. However, the new municipal solid waste landfill leachate is causing a great concern to the communities settled around. The main objective of this study is assessing the applicability of BioMist in removing the Odor from landfill leachate at specified environmental conditions. In order to come up with realistic solution, field observation, field measurement and experimental/sample analysis standard method is employed. The result showed that BioMist is effective in removing bad odor and improving water quality at lower concentration. Keywords: Biodegradable; BioMist; Color; Landfll; Leachate; Odor; Sandefa Introduction In the perspective of the improvement of life quality and citizen’s wellness, odor pollution is becoming a more and more relevant issue. In fact, among the variables that could infuence the citizens’ sense of a healthy environment, odor emissions play an important role, as they deeply afect the human life quality and psycho-physical wellness [1]. An odor is a mixture of light and small molecules that are able to stimulate an anatomical response in the human olfactory system. Sensory analyses by odor panels are important in defning odorous nuisances. Detection to Treshold (DT) is a method of determining the total odor of a sample by having panelists evaluates progressively more diluted samples until the sample is below odor threshold [2]. Te DT can be used to establish the relative strength of diferent odorous sites. Tis method was based on applying of the Flavor Profle Analysis Method, Standard Method 2170, to odorous air sample [3]. Tis method is known as the Odor Profle Method (OPM). Te character of the odor provides a clue as to what is causing the odor as operations at a facility may have distinct odors. Odor wheels can be used to help defne the odor character. Odor wheels consist of three segments: the inner circle listing categories such as Sulfde; the outer circle giving specifc odors falling into that odor category (e.g., Rotten Eggs, Rotten Cabbage, and Rotten Garlic); and outside the wheel are specifc chemicals matching to the odors (e.g., Hydrogen Sulfde, Dimethyl Disulfde and Dimethyl Trisulfde) [4]. One of the major odor problems is the municipal solid waste landfll leachate. Leachate is the liquid residue resulting from the various chemical, physical and biological processes taking place within the landfll. Landfll leachate is generated by excess rainwater percolating through the waste layers in a landfll. Generally, leachate may contain large amounts of organic matter (biodegradable, but also refractory to biodegradation), as well as ammonia-nitrogen, heavy metals, chlorinated organic and inorganic salts, which are a great threat to the surrounding soil, groundwater and even surface water [5,6]. Te composition of landfll leachate, the amount generated and the extraction of potential pollutants from the waste depend upon several factors, including solid waste composition, degree of compaction, absorptive capacity of the waste and waste age, seasonal weather variations, levels of precipitation, Landfll temperature, size, hydrogeological conditions in the vicinity of the landfll site, engineering and operational factors of the landfll, pH, landfll chemical and biological activities [7]. A simplifed water balancing equation takes all of these factors into account and allows designers to predict an amount of leachate that will be produced by the landfll. Biodegradable Mist is liquid antibacterial disinfector, this single preservative is broad spectrum and cost efective antimicrobial that is active against gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria, mildews and microzyme, wound disinfector, air-clear, deodorizer for conditioner, embalmment for plastic. It is widely used as a combination sanitizer-disinfectant for hospital, livestock and personal hygiene sectors/sugar and waste treatment. Biodegradable mist’s main focus is to provide odor control solutions with worldwide expertise and best in class products which ofers strong detergency and rapid, safe, powerful antimicrobial activity at low concentration. Berihun, Adv Recycling Waste Manag 2017, 2:2 DOI: 10.4172/2475-7675.1000129 Research Article Open Access Adv Recycling Waste Manag, an open access journal ISSN: 2475-7675 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 1000129 Advances in Recycling & Waste Management: Open Access A d v a n c e s i n R e c y c li n g & W a s t e M a n a g e m e n t