A Study of the Impact of Municipal Solid Waste on Some Soil Physicochemical Properties: The Case of the Landfill of Ain-El-Hammam Municipality, Algeria

Table 3

Physicochemical analysis of the landfill soil of A.E.H. compared with previous studies.

Study site (Landfill)	Strata	pH	EC (μS·cm^−1)	Total limestone (%)	Organic matter (%)	Heavy metals (mg·kg^−1)						Reference
						Cd	Pb	Ni	Zn	Cr	Cu
Algeria (Ain-El-Hammam)	0	7.4	2.0	4.8	1.7	0.5	7.3	20.0	43.0	76.0	18.8	Current study
	1	7.3	2.1	4.7	1.6	1.2	55.5	40.7	88.8	94.2	76.3
	2	7.2	2.3	4.6	3.4	1.5	58.4	41.6	91.0	96.6	78.7
	3	7.0	2.8	4.4	4.5	1.6	60.4	42.2	92.8	98.9	80.1
Czech Republic (Pilsen)	—	—	—	—	—	0.2	5.4	44.1	42.0	86.7	51.2	[34]
Ghana (Accra)	—	—	—	—	—	0.9	59.2	5.1	297.1	17.9	27.0	[35]
Tunisia (Tunis)	—	—	—	—	—	1.1	55.2	28.6	92.1	32.4	48.2	[36]
Italy (Malagrotta)	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	53.6	10.3	25.6	16.8	6.3	[37]
Poland (Lubna)	—	—	—	—	—	0.3	21.0	2.1	11.0	4.5	2.7	[38]
Spain (Getafe-Madrid)	—	—	—	—	—	—	16.9	6.4	73.9	1.5	13.5	[39]
Morocco (Ahfir-Saidia)	—	—	—	—	—	—	61.8	47.2	68.1	51.5	—	[40]
Nigeria (Port Harcourt)	—	—	—	—	—	1.3	12.4	—	84.2	—	46.2	[41]