Forty years after Loscoe, it is time to think again about landfill

Forty years ago, a bungalow in Derbyshire was destroyed by landfill gas. That morning shaped everything Michelle Moran has done in the three decades since. Now, as the people who built this industry head for retirement and approximately 20,000 unregulated legacy sites sit quietly in the ground, she asks whether the waste sector is ready to look at the part it has spent forty years apologising for.

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Landfill: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow landfill risk assessment

Landfill: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Landfill is not a solved problem. Michelle Moran’s presentation at the North West Resources Forum takes a long view — from the legislative turning point of 1986 through to the residual waste challenges the sector faces today — and asks what it will take to manage what we have left behind.

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