Open AccessClosure Solutions for a Non-Compliant Landfill: Case Study from Parța Non-Compliant Landfill, Timiș County, Romania
Author(s) -
Creţan Ioana-Alina,
Moscovici Anca
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/603/4/042009
Subject(s) - closure (psychology) , environmental science , environmental planning , waste management , municipal solid waste , landfill gas , municipal or urban engineering , environmental engineering , population , engineering , environmental health , medicine , economics , market economy
Non-compliant landfills contain significant amounts of waste accumulated for years, representing significant sources of soil, air and groundwater pollution and population illness. All non-compliant urban landfills have closed storage before the year 2009. The non-compliant urban deposits in Timis County were unfinished and did not meet the conditions for the protection of environmental factors according to the Government Decision no. 349/2005 on waste disposal, Decision transposing Directive no. 1999/31 / EC on the storage of waste, therefore the required closure procedures that were finalized in the year 2015. The paper aims to present closing procedures that were taken to close the Parț a non-compliant landfill as part of the Integrated Waste Management System in Timis County, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Sectoral Operational Program Environment 2007 - 2013, Priority Axis 2, “Development of integrated waste management systems and the rehabilitation of contaminated historical sites”