Uncontrolled landfill investigation: a case study in Athens

This is a paper published in Waste Research and Management 1999, 17, 159-164 . The whole paper can be found at:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3213642/Uncontrolled-landfill-investigation-a-case-study-in-Athens

Uncontrolled landfills comprise one of the most important topics as regards to Solid Waste Management (SWM) in Greece. The enviromental impacts of these landfills are closely related to some particular characteristics, namely the composition and quantity of the disposed solid wastes and the conditions that control the physicochemical processes inside the waste volume, which in fact determine the rehabilitation plan . The objective of this paper is to present a method to gain all these crucial data. The definition of the necessary information in order to have a sufficient knowledge about the landfill processes and the choice of the appropriate overall measurements (biogas, geophysical methods) are the key factors to transced the problem of unconformity and the absence of data, without wasting time and money.