40 Years After Loscoe: Landfills Have Changed. Can We Still Predict Their Behaviour?

If you want a practical, up-to-date understanding of UK landfill behaviour and what it means for monitoring, compliance and risk, this paper is essential reading.

Co-authored by Egniol’s Michelle Moran, together with Marcus Holden – Holden Environmental, Stewart Davies – Principal Consultant WRC and presented by co-author Robert Gregory – Retired Landfill gas consultant, this paper offers a clear, evidence-led review of how modern landfills behave compared to those of the 1980s. With today’s landfills dominated by treatment-derived residuals such as fines and AD rejects, gas generation is faster, more variable and harder to predict using traditional models.

The paper explores the rise of EWC 19 12 12 fines, emerging gas components such as hydrogen, and the challenges of interpreting inconsistent monitoring results across reactive waste batches.