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Project good practices
the Bird Rock, den Helder
Summary: Bird Rock is built by cleaning and reusing of 90.000 m3 contaminated soil and nowadays the structure provides a safe breeding ground for multiple bird species.
Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands (Nederland)
Restoration of non-compliant landfill sites in Larnaka...
Summary: The practice "Restoration of non-compliant landfill site in Tersefanou Larnaka District», one of the 10 high risk landfill sites of Cyprus.
Location: Κύπρος, Cyprus (Κυπρος)
Landfill Aeration as a contribution to landfill stabilisation and...
Summary: The aerobic in situ stabilisation accelerates biodegradation processes in landfills with an acceleration factor 3-5 compared to anaerobic degradation.
Location: Hamburg, Germany (Deutschland)
Quality management plan: Monitoring technical elements during...
Summary: Surface capping and basal liners have to meet defined technical standards. The monitoring of the installed quality is defined in the quality management plan.
Location: Brandenburg, Germany (Deutschland)
IPCC – Model to calculate the Methane Gas Production in...
Summary: The practice describes a method created by IPCC to calculate the amount of landfill gas production.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany (Deutschland)
Evaluation of groundwater observation of landfills
Summary: Evaluation of the measured groundwater pollution (gwp) by comparison with trigger level (tl) and forecast over the period until the gwp falls below the tl.
Location: Brandenburg, Germany (Deutschland)
Brandenburg policy: Classification of closed landfills with...
Summary: Brandenburg police to classificate small landfills in a rural area, ruled by the “Guideline for closing measures of landfills with low risk potential”.
Location: Brandenburg, Germany (Deutschland)
Evapotranspiration-optimized capping systems
Summary: A surface capping system was installed with requirements to soil quality that maximizes evapotranspiration and reduces the groundwater recharge rate.
Location: Brandenburg, Germany (Deutschland)
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Save the date - 6th thematic event - Nov 12-13, 2019
The sixth thematic event will focus on the economic and legal aspects of landfill management projects and will take place on November 12-14 in Malta.
Thematic event recycling technology in LfM projects
The fifth thematic event on July 2-3, 2019 focused on the recycling technologies in landfill management projects. Do you want to know what was on the programme?