Abstract
Decisions related to closure and post-closure of a landfill must be made at the design stage to project how the landfill will be configured and used after its disposal capacity is exhausted. This chapter discusses the ways that sustainable landfilling practices impact final disposition, closure, and post-closure planning and how operations throughout the landfill’s life can be used in combination with sustainable landfilling technologies to create conditions at closure that are consistent with the site’s sustainable landfilling goals. Important considerations such as identifying the termination of the post-closure care period (and how sustainable landfilling can affect the timing of post-closure care), how landfill reclamation and reuse can be incorporated as a viable strategy, and how the final site use and configuration can be impacted by sustainable practices during or after active operations.
Keywords
- Landfill
- Bioreactor
- Closure
- Post-Closure
- After-Care
- Mining
- Reclamation
- Leachate
- Gas
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Townsend, T.G., Powell, J., Jain, P., Xu, Q., Tolaymat, T., Reinhart, D. (2015). Final Landfill Disposition. In: Sustainable Practices for Landfill Design and Operation. Waste Management Principles and Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2662-6_17
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