Aims & Scope
Aim & Scope
The CLEAR Working Group emerged from a recognized need among participants at an IWWG-workshop, which was held in the context of a conference (the Second Intercontinental Landfill Symposium, Asheville, North Carolina, October 2002) for a mechanism to coordinate international research on landfill gas emissions. In the mean time 6 other CLEAR-meetings and workshops were held at:
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Ninth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium Sardinia 2003
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ICLRS in Sapporo (Japan), at Sardinia 2005
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ICLRS in llivare (Sweden)
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BOKU Waste Conference Vienna, April 2007
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Sardinia 2007
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5th ICLRS in Colorado (US)2008
Group members have already begun to compile common methodologies and develop recommendations for new and developing techniques so that data can be compared among laboratories and experimental systems. Discussions were also initiated regarding the development of modeling approaches for the observed environmental systems. As research efforts are coordinated and new results are generated, the group can begin to serve as a clearing house and point of contact for those seeking information about measuring, modeling, and mitigating landfill gas emissions. Landfill operators,legislators, industry groups, and citizen groups will be able to access information through contact with CLEAR. Furthermore, collaborations from within the group will be published in international journals, so that ready access to information will be available to the research community. Some of the research topics that are being addressed by CLEAR members include:landfill gas generation and emissions control and mitigation strategies for LFG-emissions prediction and modeling on a regional, national and global basis contribution of landfill methane to the greenhouse effect and climate change microbial methane oxidation biodegradation of NMOCs in landfill cover soils. The working group provides a forum for members to discuss and exchange ideas, generate hypotheses, and to jointly consider and relate results and findings from diverse projects. By fostering international and interdisciplinary communication and pooling data, research advances will be accelerated, and future research needs will be identified and synthesized more effectively. From the synergy fostered by CLEAR, more innovative and comprehensive approaches and strategies to measure,characterize, and mitigate landfill gas emissions will emerge.
Updated September 17, 2009