The Landfill

Peter Baccini is Professor Emeritus at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH), where he was Professor of Resource and Waste Management. Paul H. Brunner is Professor at the Institute for Water Quality, Resources, and Waste Management at Vienna University of Technology. Paul H. Brunner is Professor at the Institute for Water Quality, Resources, and Waste Management at Vienna University of Technology.

Landfill, as an indispensable part of every waste management system, is subject to a critical revision. The existing scientific, technical, and regulatory concepts are discussed in group reports on the basis of 14 review papers. Landfills are considered as chemical and biological reactors, which can be active over a time span of several centuries. Thus the common goal of the participants of the workshop was to define both scientific and technical criteria for landfills with final storage quality. This new concept is of fundamental importance for environmental engineers and scientists.

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a Swiss workshop on land disposal.- the landfill as a reactor: Biological and chemical processes.- The landfill ecosystem: A microbiologist's look inside a "black box".- Geochemical processes in landfills.- Water and element balances of landfills.- Control of reactor landfills by barriers.- Group report: Biological and chemical processes.- material transport and properties of a reactor envelope.- Geotechnical engineering of land disposal systems.- Interactions of leachates with natural and synthetic envelopes.- Chemical effects on clay farbric and hydraulic conductivity.- Group report: Material transport and properties of reactor envelopes.- scientific and technical criteria for final storage quality.- Strategy in landfilling solid wastes.- Hydrogeological criteria for final storage quality.- Transport models for leachates from landfills.- Ecotoxicological criteria for final storage quality.- Group report: Final storage quality.- methodology for the evaluation of the final storage quality.- Methodical guidelines in federal ordinances to assign wastes to treatment and final storage.- Physical and chemical methods for the characterization of hazardous wastes.- Waste deposit influences on groundwater quality as a tool for waste type and site selection for final storage quality.- Group report: Methodology for the evaluation of final storage quality.