
The Background
Norfolk County Council (NCC) has a duty of care as well as a responsibility to ensure that its landfill sites do not pose a threat to the environment.
Landfill gas and leachate are by-products of landfill treatment and it is the Council’s priority to manage them appropriately. The Council currently disposes leachate from several closed landfill sites. These landfills are now no longer permitted to accept new waste, with the latest closing in 2014.