The Safety Situation of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills in Hungary from a Disaster Management Perspective – Part 1

Abstract

Today, nearly seventy municipal solid waste landfills in Hungary fully comply with European Union directives. Experience has shown that some sites have not yet been recultivated and that there are several illegal landfills. Waste fires are a special area within disaster management that have not yet been legally regulated nor interven-tion procedures have been established. In the first part of the series of articles I will present the key aspects that should be taken into account when defining a possible legal regulation. In addition, I plan to evaluate the prevention and response meas-ures to hazards that are specific to landfills.