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The Spanish controlled landfills, again to study
06/11/2007
November 6, 2007
During 24 and 25 October Ategrus - technical Association for the waste management, urban hygiene and environment- held in the city of Lleida, and coinciding with the Tektonica fair, its 9th Annual Conference on controlled landfill sites.
Waste disposal is still today the most commonly used in Spain gestión-disposición option. However, a few years ago, and in particular since the advent of the European directives of waste and landfills, that this type of disposition faces numerous legislative and technical challenges: containment to the best of the contaminación-gasesleached-, climate change, social rejection, obligation to decline of the organic poured, application of new technologies, integration into new models of integral management of wastes, maximum materials recovery. These challenges have brought new concepts of landfill, ranging from the vertedero-reactor to the landfill of rejection of high stability.
Conferences organized by Ategrus in Lleida since 1991 on disposal and waste management, have already become reference for the entire sector of the controlled landfill sites. Its aim is to create a meeting space where the technicians of the sector can be up-to-date on the latest legislative changes and to know the best available techniques on the market and the current investigation, to adapt best to this changing legislation.
In addition, this Congress allowed the results of the 4th edition of the Observatory made by Ategrus on the situation in Spain of controlled landfills of inert waste, urban and dangerous, that will be of great interest to the entire sector.
The main themes that addressed, include the following:
- Situation of landfill sites in Spain and Europe
- Management of landfill sites
- Climate change, emission and landfill gas rights
- Treatment of leachate
- Waterproofing and sealing
In addition to the technological and legal type lectures by professionals of great prestige both in Spain and in several European countries, the Observatory of controlled landfills of inert, urban and hazardous waste that our Association has just develop and whose results will present highlightsshowing the real situation of existing landfills, with reliable data that will be of great help to all the technicians who come.
