%0 Journal Article
%T Closure Alternatives for Municipal Waste Landfills.Study Case: Municipal Waste Landfill Medias,Sibiu County
%A MIH£¿IESCU R.
%A L. MUNTEAN
%A C. BODEA
%A Cristina MODOI
%J Proenvironment Promediu
%D 2010
%I Bioflux Society
%X In the recent decades, the environmental impact produced by municipal solid wastes has received specialattention. All new EU countries are involved in the process of implementation of the European Council Directive31/99/EC on the landfill of waste in the European Union. As consequence National legislation, adapted to fit the EUrequirements, focuses on integrated waste management and environmental control of municipal solid waste landfills,from start-up to closure and assimilation into the environment. In Romania, by Government decision, HG 349/2005,was established the obligatoriness of closing unconform waste landfills located in urban areas starting at July 2009. Asconsequence the owner of municipal waste landfill Medias started the proceedings of closure for the landfill. The aim ofthis study is to compare, from an environmental point of view, different alternatives for the closure of the municipalsolid waste landfill Somard-Medias (Romania).
%K municipal wastes
%K waste landfill
%K waste directive
%U http://proenvironment.ro/promediu/article/viewFile/5508/5138