SESSION F08 / 15 ottobre 2025 / 17:30 - 19:00
Workshop: How to achieve climate neutrality in landfilling
Chair / Presidente: M. Ritzkowski (DE)
Landfills are major contributors of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Diffuse emissions of methane gases are making a contribution to climate change. Moreover, waste handling (collection, transport, placement and compaction) and operation of the equipment for gas and leachate collection and treatment are causing further GHG emissions, whereas further indirect emissions are caused by the transport of construction materials. Minimizing these emissions is an important task which should be amended by additional efforts to substitute CO2 emissions by the generation of renewable energy from and on the landfill sites. The aim is to achieve climate neutral landfills over their entire lifetimes. The intention of the workshop is to demonstrate and discuss options for GHG emissions reduction in (all) different phases of the landfill lifetime and to evaluate the possibility of achieving a concept for climate neutral landfills in future.
