Forum meeting June 2016

Chair: Keith Knox

Delegates:

Meeting Notes

Welcome and Introduction to the meeting [Professor William Powrie, University of Southampton]

Keynote: Full scale studies of accelerated stabilization techniques [Timo Heimovaara, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands

Keynote: Danish initiative to define site specific Final Storage Quality criteria [Ole Hjelmar, Danish Waste Solutions]

Perspectives on landfill aftercare:  Introductory presentations and Round table discussion [Keynote speakers + Charles Wright, Norfolk County Council; Mike Brennan, Suez;  Nicky Ingrey, Environment Agency; Jan Gronow, Resource and Waste Solutions

LANDSS update and future of Forum  [Richard Beaven, University of Southampton]

A new life cycle assessment approach for evaluation of landfill aftercare [David Turner, Empa, Switzerland (previously University of Southampton)]

Closed landfills: managing the information legacy [Kevin Wilson, Cemex]

Regulating landfills using measured methane emissions  [Mark Bourn, EA]

Wrap up, what next

The meeting closed at ~4pm.  It was agreed that a feedback form would be sent out to all delegates, the results of which would be used to work out a viable way to keep the Forum meetings running.