This two day course brings landfill managers and operators up to date with the full range of aspects of landfill design, operations, management, closure and aftercare.
Course content includes:
- The regulatory environment, the role of Federal, State and Local Government
- Planning and approvals
- Landfill site selection criteria
- Solid waste management options and the role of landfilling
- Developing and maintaining a landfill environmental management plan
- Landfill facilities
- Cell construction and liners, natural and geosynthetic
- Occupational health and safety issues
- Gatehouse and weighbridge operations
- Waste separation and recycling options
- Waste receival, spotting and screening
- Landfill equipment
- Landfill operations, compaction, maximising airspace usage and cover options
- Special and hazardous wastes
- Leachate generation and management
- Landfill gas generation and management
- Noise, odour, dust, litter and fire control and management
- Drainage and stormwater management
- Environmental monitoring and data analysis
- Innovative use of waste materials in landfill operations and restoration
- Remediation of problems at operating landfill sites
- Communication, education, consultation and liaison with external agencies
- Landfill economics
- Asset management of landfill sites
- Landfill closure and aftercare
- Rehabilitation of former landfill sites