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This book will serve as a ready reckoner of contemporary information regarding municipal solid waste landfill biomining, treatment of landfill leachate and heavy metals in a single platform. The academicians, researchers, and students at master's and doctoral levels will be able to understand the current trends in municipal solid waste landfill operations, which will help in augmenting their research. Construction of new landfills requires huge monetary investments, which can be avoided if old landfills were bio-mined for resources and the space can be re-used as new landfills. Landfill leachate is a hazardous waste which needs proper treatment that could generate value-added products such as clean energy and biofertilizers. In this book, each chapter would provide the background, methodology, and relevant calculations for sustaining landfill operations. Also, the case studies based on best practices in municipal solid waste landfilling are discussed in this book.

1.      Preface2.      Specific radioanalytical methods for the detection and identification of the trace concentrations of lead in the environment.3.      Lead contamination and its dynamics in soil plant system.4.      Radioactive lead: Environmental distribution and modelling.5.      210Pb as NORM in terrestrial radioecology modelling.6.     Influence of 210Pb soil speciation on its transfer to plants.7.    Lead in the urban environment: Distribution, pollution and potential risks.8.     Impact of lead contamination on agro-ecosystem and human health.9. Lead pollution and human exposure: forewarned is forearmed, and the question now becomes how to respond to the threat.10. Physiological and biochemical changes in plant growth and different plant enzymes in response to lead stress.11.  The mechanisms involved in photosynthetic apparatus protection against lead toxicity.12.  Lead pollution monitoring and remediation through terrestrial plants in mesocosm constructed wetland.13.  A review of phytoremediation of lead. 14. Appendix