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Implementation of a new environmental impact assessment for municipal waste landfills as tool for planning and decision-making process

✍ Fernando Calvo; Begoña Moreno; Ángel Ramos; Montserrat Zamorano 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 261 KB

Among Latin American countries, Chile is the leader in terms of end-disposal of waste by landfill, with coverage of 83%. Accordingly, advances in waste management are currently being applied to minimize the environmental impact of existing sites. This has given rise to the need to undertake an envir