Regional Landfill Policies
Policy paper on redeveloping closed landfills, Province of Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands
In our province landfills take up more than 1200 hectares. This involves around 600 landfills. The province has a vitality that goes hand-in-hand with a heavy demand for space for housing, industrial estates, recreation, agriculture and nature conservancy ... More
Background information about the situation in Lithuania
Lithuania is not very densely populated. In size and population (3.5mio) it is about equal to the republic of Ireland. Some (large) parts have population densities as low as 10 people / sqkm. Major cities are Vilnius (550 ... More
Landfills in Western Greece
The Western part of Greece is a mountainous area not densily populated. Landfills were often left as they were. Due to European and national legislation the region started to investigate the landfills and set up a program for ... More
Policy for Landfill aftercare in the Province of Verona, Italy
The Province of Verona has adopted some initiatives in order to control and provide directions for the aftercare, monitoring and self check of landfill sites during the post closing management period. In this article we present the adopted ... More
Learning about landfills in Oldham, Lancashire, United Kingdom
The town of Oldham, Lancashire, UK joined the Sufalnet network mainly to learn from other countries and because the objectives of Sufalnet were in line with the strategic themes of the Council. In return Oldham gave information about ... More
Wielkopolska, Poland: getting in control of waste management
Increasing amounts of accumulated waste, both industrial and municipal, and also its illegal or inadequate landfilling presents a serious threat to human health and the environment of the Wielkopolska Region. The first goal for the authorities in the ... More
Environmental Monitoring and Aftercare Programme for Closed Landfills in the region of Cova da Beira (Portugal)
After landfill closing and sealing a local monitoring program has to be implemented to control the environmental conditions in that area, in order to detect and teake actions against eventual dysfunctions related to landfill behaviour after sealing. In ... More