Compression behaviors of mechanically biologically treated wastes of Tianziling landfill in Hangzhou, China

This study aimed to investigate the compression behaviors of mechanically biologically treated (MBT) wastes. For this purpose, the short-term compression-rebound and long-term compression tests were conducted on MBT wastes collected from Hangzhou Tianziling landfill in China. The results showed that the duration of immediate compression was obtained as 15.17–36.67 h and was comparable to municipal solid waste (MSW). The immediate compression ratio was 0.233–0.247, and it was comparable to the aged high food waste content (HFWC)-MSW, fresh and aged low food waste content (LFWC)-MSW, but much lower than the fresh HFWC-MSW. The mechanical creep ratio ( C′ αc ) was 0.012–0.018, being close to the fresh and aged MSWs. The bio-induced compression ratio ( C′ αb ) was 0.143–0.174. The compression ratio rose exponentially with temperature (5–42 °C) in both mechanical creep stage and bio-induced compression stage, and it increased much faster in the bio-induced compression stage. The resilient strains was only 2.1–3.3% of the compression strain at the same stress interval, suggesting that the compression strain consisted of mostly plastic deformation and negligible elastic deformation. The above findings can provide a reference for settlement prediction and storage capacity estimation of an MBT waste landfill.