Estimations of flood waste from rural dumpsites located on floodplains from Neamţ, County, Romania

Florin Constantin Mihai (1)

1 UAIC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași = Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași

Waste dumping is a serious environmental threat to major rivers from extra- Carpathian Region of Neamţ county in the proximity of villages because the lack of waste collection services. In this context, floodplains are frequently susceptible to such bad practices, these areas being also exposed to stronger floods. The paper aims to calculate the potential waste taken from these areas in order to assess a quantitative impact of these bad practices.

Mots clés: dumpsite; floodplain; rural waste; floods; quantitative assessments

Domaines: Environnement et Société; Ingénierie de l'environnement; Milieux et Changements globaux; Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Géographie; Etudes de l'environnement

Florin Constantin Mihai. Estimations of flood waste from rural dumpsites located on floodplains from Neamţ, County, Romania. Bulletin UASVM Agriculture, 2013, 70 (2), pp.447-448. ⟨hal-01150700⟩