The Landfill

a Swiss workshop on land disposal.- the landfill as a reactor: Biological and chemical processes.- The landfill ecosystem: A microbiologist's look inside a "black box".- Geochemical processes in landfills.- Water and element balances of landfills.- Control of reactor landfills by barriers.- Group report: Biological and chemical processes.- material transport and properties of a reactor envelope.- Geotechnical engineering of land disposal systems.- Interactions of leachates with natural and synthetic envelopes.- Chemical effects on clay farbric and hydraulic conductivity.- Group report: Material transport and properties of reactor envelopes.- scientific and technical criteria for final storage quality.- Strategy in landfilling solid wastes.- Hydrogeological criteria for final storage quality.- Transport models for leachates from landfills.- Ecotoxicological criteria for final storage quality.- Group report: Final storage quality.- methodology for the evaluation of the final storage quality.- Methodical guidelines in federal ordinances to assign wastes to treatment and final storage.- Physical and chemical methods for the characterization of hazardous wastes.- Waste deposit influences on groundwater quality as a tool for waste type and site selection for final storage quality.- Group report: Methodology for the evaluation of final storage quality.