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Assessing landfills in terms of sustainability is a difficult task and needs to be addressed comprehensively. In this paper, we present an initial operationalisation of this approach for a pragmatic legal landfill assessment and its application to assess two prototypic Swiss landfills as part of a pilot study. Thereby, the six generic criteria of SPA are specified using 18 functional key variables (FKVs), such as ‘control of pollutant release’ or ‘resilience to intended human impacts’. The first results from the pilot study indicate that SPA and its generic criteria provide a purposeful guiding framework for achieving a systemic and comprehensive SD assessment that seems (i) to be feasible for practical application, (ii) sensitive for relevant SD issues and (iii) transparent for the addressees of the assessment results. The results show that thermal treatment of the unrecyclable part of the waste stream is the preferred option for waste management when compared to modern landfilling. Furthermore, Eco-indicator 99 method is used to investigate the human health, ecosystem quality and resource use impact categories.
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Sivakumar Babu, G.L., Lakshmikanthan, P., Santhosh, L.G. (2017). Assessment of Landfill Sustainability. In: Sivakumar Babu, G., Saride, S., Basha, B. (eds) Sustainability Issues in Civil Engineering. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1930-2_15
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