What is it about?

Geotechnical classification of municipal waste is recommended and may facilitate long-term analysis of the state of a landfill, particularly for proposals and solutions regarding landfill closure and future land use at these sites.

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Why is it important?

Information on the composition, shape and size of particles in a landfill can be of great importance for analysing the mechanical characteristics of municipal waste.

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These properties form the basis of a new geotechnical classification system for municipal waste, which is presented in this paper.

Dragoslav R Rakic
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology

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This page is a summary of: Contribution to the Geotechnical Classification of Municipal Waste, Environmental Geotechnics, November 2018, ICE Publishing,
DOI: 10.1680/jenge.18.00028.
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