Industrial Waste Management with Application of RIAM Environmental Assessment: A Case Study on Toos Industrial State, Mashhad

Systematic industrial waste management is one of an important issue due to high environmental risks caused by improper waste disposal. Hence, present research was conducted to investigate environmental aspects of optimal disposal and management methods of industrial waste of Toos industrial estate in Mashhad. In this work, one of the environmental impact assessment methods called Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) was applied. Thus, various disposal options such as open dumping, sanitary landfill, gasification and incineration from the viewpoint of the physical, chemical, biological, ecological, cultural and social, economical and environmental aspects were evaluated. All of these aspects were compared due to selection of disposal methods through application of RIAM technique. The obtained results showed that sanitary landfill led to more beneficial effects than the other four mentioned options. Therefore, the best method of choice in compare to other options for waste management in the industrial estate of Toos, Mashhad was selected.