Przemysl Chemiczny, Vol.88, No.5, 484-492, 2009
The survey of odorant sources in the wastewater and solid waste management in Poland and evaluation of their noxiousness on the basis of questionnaire examinations
Seventy wastewater treatment plants, 49 solid waste dumping sites, 13 municipal waste segregation plants and 6 plants for biolog. treatment of municipal waste were surveyed to det. the occurrence of nouxious odor emissions. According to the results of conducted poll, the open sludge higienization chambers were the source of most nouxious odors (75% cases). The closed sludge settling tanks were found totally harmless. The public protests against the odors were lodged in only 5 cases of dumping sites.