A hazardous waste landfill is an infrastructural object, without which establishment of hazardous waste management system is not possible. Waste, which can not be incinerated or otherwise processed, such as asbestos waste, waste from galvanic workshops, is permanently disposed of at a landfill.

There should be established one such final disposal landfill site in Latvia. The establishment should be carried out in accordance with the EU directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of waste and corresponding Latvian legislation. It should be taken into account that the volume of hazardous waste can considerably increase with the ratification and implementation of new legislative acts. For instance, waste resulting from the cleaning of fume gases from boiler-houses will have to be disposed of at landfills with the implementation of the directive "On Major Incineration Systems", as according to the classification this waste is considered to be hazardous waste.

To ensure groundwater protection from pollution and control of potential pollution, the landfill is designed as a complicated civil engineering building, the cross-section of the structure is shown in the scheme.

Before the disposal hazardous waste is being packed and, according to the content, is being stored in separate partitions to avoid blending and so that it could be taken for recycling.

Hazardous waste landfill in Rotterdam.