Landfill gas emission monitoring: Editorial to Special Issue

Beaven, Richard and Scheutz, Charlotte (2019) Landfill gas emission monitoring: Editorial to Special Issue. Waste Management, 87, 833-834. (doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.039).

Record type: Editorial

Abstract

Countries that have ratified the 1994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have an obligation to report national emission inventories of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which include contributions from landfill methane. Fugitive emissions of landfill gas (LFG) in 2010 were estimated to account for approximately 8% of the global anthropogenic emissions of methane to the atmosphere (Fischedick et al., 2014). Currently, landfill gas emission reporting is largely based on estimations using gas generation models. Methods for monitoring methane emissions from landfills are generally poor and there is a need to develop more robust methodologies and encourage their uptake within the industry in general. The collection of papers in this Special Issue, together with a number of other papers recently published in Waste Management, draw together recent developments in the topic of LFG emission monitoring techniques.

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