| Title: |
Green Remediation Best Management Practices: Landfill Cover Systems & Energy Production
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| Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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| Country: |
USA
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| Year: |
2012 |
| Availability: |
EPA 542-F-11-024
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| Author 1/Producer: |
US Environmental Protection Agency
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Passive and hydraulicContainment
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Sustainable / green remediation
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| Short description: |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Principles for Greener Cleanups outline the Agency's policy for evaluating and minimizing the environmental footprint of activities undertaken when cleaning up a contaminated site. Use of the best management practices (BMPs) recommended in EPA s series of green remediation fact sheets can help project managers and other stakeholders apply the principles on a routine basis while maintaining the cleanup objectives, ensuring protectiveness of a remedy, and improving its environmental outcome. Remediation at thousands of sites across the United States involves hazardous waste from former industrial landfills or waste piles, aged municipal landfills, or illegal dumps. A cover system is commonly installed at these areas as part of proper closure to serve as a surface barrier that contains the source material, reduces contaminant exposure or migration, and manages associated risk. The environmental footprint of activities needed to install and maintain a cover system can be reduced by adhering to EPA's Principles for Greener Cleanups (December 2011
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 01/02/2012
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