Landfilling of waste has increased dramatically over recent years and there have been many examples of landfills which are unacceptable on environmental and health grounds. This is one of a group of international reference books which address this problem, specifically in this case covering the strongly contaminated wastewater developed from landfills.

Landfilling of waste is an international issue of environmental and political concern, and should be viewed as part of an integrated waste management system. This third work in a series of reference books provides an overview of the state of the art of landfill, and identifies new directions in landfill technology and research.