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Given the potential magnitude of sustainable landfilling technologies, proper planning is required to avoid common pitfalls and increase the odds of successful implementation. A series of region-specific (such as regulations) and site-specific (such as landfill dimensions and operational constraints and opportunities) planning considerations are presented. The concepts of operations and monitoring, closure and post-closure care, economics, and sustainability are presented in the context of sustainable landfilling and how differences in these different concepts (relative to traditional sanitary landfilling) must be planned for in advance.
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Townsend, T.G., Powell, J., Jain, P., Xu, Q., Tolaymat, T., Reinhart, D. (2015). Planning for Sustainable Landfilling Practices. In: Sustainable Practices for Landfill Design and Operation. Waste Management Principles and Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2662-6_3
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