Landfill closure best available technique development: case study of Serbia

Abstract

Waste disposal is the last but inevitable step in waste management and it significantly effects the environment. According to the Serbian Waste Management Strategy, disposal sites should be closed and new, sanitary regional landfills should be established. In this paper, case study method has been used to analyse technical regulations in order to determine the need for more detailed elaboration of the Best available technique (BAT) for landfill closure. Based on the analyses results, a number of proposals have been formulated and elaborated aimed to ensure pollution prevention and environment protection on the old and new landfills. A new national model for improvement BAT landfills closure is proposed. Proposed BAT improvements for landfill cover might be used on the international level, because many countries do not have BAT elaborations beside the Landfill Directive.