The Landfill: Reactor and Final Storage Swiss Workshop on Land Disposal of Solid Wastes Gerzensee, March 14–17, 1988

Introduction a Swiss workshop on land disposal....Pages 1-5
Introduction the landfill as a reactor: Biological and chemical processes....Pages 7-14
The landfill ecosystem: A microbiologist's look inside a “black box”....Pages 15-38
Geochemical processes in landfills....Pages 39-81
Water and element balances of landfills....Pages 83-115
Control of reactor landfills by barriers....Pages 117-130
Group report: Biological and chemical processes....Pages 131-136
Introduction material transport and properties of a reactor envelope....Pages 139-143
Geotechnical engineering of land disposal systems....Pages 145-173
Interactions of leachates with natural and synthetic envelopes....Pages 175-200
Chemical effects on clay farbric and hydraulic conductivity....Pages 201-251
Group report: Material transport and properties of reactor envelopes....Pages 253-261
Introduction scientific and technical criteria for final storage quality....Pages 263-273
Strategy in landfilling solid wastes....Pages 275-291
Hydrogeological criteria for final storage quality....Pages 293-325
Transport models for leachates from landfills....Pages 327-340
Ecotoxicological criteria for final storage quality....Pages 341-352
Group report: Final storage quality....Pages 353-356
Introduction methodology for the evaluation of the final storage quality....Pages 359-362
Methodical guidelines in federal ordinances to assign wastes to treatment and final storage....Pages 363-369
Physical and chemical methods for the characterization of hazardous wastes....Pages 371-398
Waste deposit influences on groundwater quality as a tool for waste type and site selection for final storage quality....Pages 399-415
Group report: Methodology for the evaluation of final storage quality....Pages 417-424