Responsible Landfill Design and Operation Versus Landfill Containment Legislation

Landfill operators everywhere must be prepared to give a thorough demonstration that their practices are environmentally sound, or they will lose public support as rising local awareness of environmental quality develops.

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HDPE Telescopic Leachate Shafts

Use of HDPE Telescopic Leachate Shafts for leachate collection and extraction are described and explained.

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Landfill Reclamation

Landfill reclamation is a technique which can be very beneficial and profitable to developers in certain cases. To reclaim the land of an old tip returns it to normal use and the land can then be used for housing and factories etc. Read more about Landfill Reclamation in this article now!

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Why Landfill Construction Quality Assurance is so Important to the Installation of Landfill Geomembrane Liners

Landfills nowadays each contain huge amounts of organic materials and hold a huge potential to pollute the local groundwater for generations in the containment systems upon which their design is based fail to function as intended. The engineering of a landfill is no different to other engineered structures, in fact in many ways, especially due [...]

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Dense Asphaltic Concrete Can be an Alternative to HDPE Liners

Dense Asphaltic Concrete can be an extremely versatile product, suitable for many types of applications. The ancient civilizations of Egypt, Babylon and Assyria all used bituminous lining materials and mortars for waterproofing and building, some more than 5,000 years ago, and many examples of their work remains intact even today. More recently with the advances in hydraulic [...]

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