Waste Landfill

Hazardous waste is generated by almonst all type of manufacturing industries. Many company leaves different type of hazardous waste and other waste depeding upon the manufacturig process, product and process used in manucaturing process. there is variety of different waste catagories .different categories of waste like municipal waste, hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste and inert waste etc. are generally dumped into speciall made secured landfill, defined as waste disposal sites for the deposit of waste onto or into land. Landfills are divided into basically three classes:

Hazardous Waste Landfill

• landfills for hazardous waste;
• landfills for non-hazardous/slide waste;
• landfills for inert waste.

The Directive does not apply to:

• the spreading on the soil of sludges (including sewage sludges and sludges resulting from dredging operations);
• the use in landfills of inert waste for redevelopment or restoration work;
• the deposit of unpolluted soil or of non-hazardous inert waste resulting from prospecting and extraction, treatment and storage of mineral resources as well as from the operation of quarries;
• the deposit of non-hazardous dredging sludges alongside small waterways from which they have been dredged and of non-hazardous sludges in surface water, including the bed and its subsoil.

Waste should not me send to landfill directly. it should be stablize with standard procedure. a standard waste acceptance procedure is laid down so as to avoid any risks:

• waste must be treated before being landfilled;
• hazardous waste within the meaning of the Directive must be assigned to a hazardous waste landfill;
• landfills for non-hazardous waste must be used for municipal waste and for non-hazardous waste;
• landfill sites for inert waste must be used only for inert waste;
• criteria for the acceptance of waste at each landfill class must be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the general principles of Annex II.

The following waste needs special treatment before sending it to in a landfill:

• liquid waste;
• flammable waste;
• explosive or oxidising waste;
• hospital and other clinical waste which is infectious;
• used tyres, with certain exceptions;

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The Directive sets up a system of operating permits for landfill sites. Applications for permits must contain the following information:

• the identity of the applicant and, in some cases, of the operator;
• a description of the types and total quantity of waste to be deposited;
• the capacity of the disposal site;
• a description of the site;
• the proposed methods for pollution prevention and abatement;
• the proposed operation, monitoring and control plan;
• the plan for closure and aftercare procedures;
• the applicant's financial security;

Every States must ensure that existing landfill sites may not continue to operate unless they comply with the provisions of the Directive as soon as possible.

Every States must report to the pollution control board the implementation of the Directive.

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