Landfill Leachate Management—Control and Treatment

Sanitary landfills have been the most popular methods of municipal solid waste disposal for the last decades, all over the world, but waste management policy has been greatly turned toward waste minimizing and reuse. Incineration and energy recovery play an important role in waste reduction and energy conversion. Sanitary landfills, however, still exist and will continue to be used for solid waste and residue disposal in many countries. The designs of landfill leachate treatment and landfill closure requirement is one of the major engineering challenge for environmental compliance. The main issue is related to the question: How to select a method for landfill leachate treatment which will be in line with relevant regulations and with reasonable cost and operation complexity? Which one is a right for particular site? Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing nowadays with implementation of solid waste management project throughout the country, which includes issues related to the landfill leachate treatment. This paper presents leachate containment and treatment as well as a brief overview of the subject issue in Bosnia and Herzegovina.