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Landfill provides a safe disposal option for wastes that can’t be recycled, composted or used to generate energy. Modern landfills are engineered to very high specifications ensuring that all waste deposited in a landfill will be safely contained and, that when it is restored, the landfill will blend naturally into the surrounding landscape. Restored landfills are often used for farming, as golf courses, for forestry or as public open space.
Landfill is still the principal means of managing most of the waste, although landfilling of municipal waste has decreased (in England) from 79% in 2000/01 to an estimated 55% at the end of 2007. Around 44% of industrial and commercial waste is also managed by landfill. The Landfill Directive has set targets of reducing the amount of waste going to landfill and the Landfill Tax was introduced in 1996 in an attempt to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. However, landfill will always be an important option for certain domestic, commercial and industrial wastes produced in the UK. |
Landfill Operation
Landfill Directive
Landfill Gas & Leachate
Landfill Tax and Landfill Communities Fund
A third of renewable electricity in the UK comes from landfill gas
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