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