Question

(e) A landfill site is suitable for constructing​

Answer 1

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One of the most important causes of environmental pollution is certainly an inadequate waste management. The three factors that have primarily influenced this problem area are: ever increasing amount of municipal solid waste (which causes increasingly pronounced space occupation), increasing amount and types of hazardous waste, as well as lack of awareness on the importance of acting promptly in this field. Particular problems in waste management occur in developing countries, where the awareness of the importance of environmental protection has not yet achieved a satisfactory level and where, out of economic or political reasons, professional guidelines associated with waste management are not observed. Problems emerge either due to a lack of legislation, or obsolete legislation, lack of trained personnel, inadequate waste management infrastructure, financial constraints in the establishment of a modern waste management system, population lacking the awareness about solid waste management, impossibility of selecting appropriate space for landfill development, lack of standards, etc.

Great problems in waste management in Serbia are caused by increasing amount of waste, lack of sanitary landfills built under international standards (which is inefficient and ecologically acceptable), as well as by the fact that the principle of hierarchy in waste management is not observed at all. Problems emerging in the field of environmental pollution and the manner of responding to pollution through the planning documentation, only increase the importance of this problem area.

Waste management is a complex process which implies a control of the entire waste management system (from waste generation, through collection and transportation of waste, to waste treatment and disposal), along with the support of legislation and appropriate institutional organization. The accent in the present paper is placed on spatial planning as an inevitable instrument for strategic waste management. The paper also points out the importance of spatial aspect in the waste management planning process.

Answer 2

Answer:

Landfill site selection.- In planning, landfill site selection occupies extremely important place. In the widest sense, the natural, social, political, economic and technical factors have an important role in landfill site selection, thus it follows that the selection is to be made by a multidisciplinary team of experts. Given that landfill construction is considered as a non-economic activity, a special task is to select landfill site from the aspect of the use of buildable land and its price, as well as other natural or urban values which have an important role in relation to rationality and planned landfill remediation or its rehabilitation, i.e. reconstruction [5]. From technical and technological aspects, for the planning, design, construction and exploitation needs, it is necessary that on each landfill site the following is ensured: