ABSTRACT
While an impressively large array of reclamation choices is today available [1], the selection of the most appropriate solution is governed far more by national perceptions of the problems which might arise (and by the differing legislation, regulations and soil quality criteria these have generated) than by technical or economic factors. Thus a solution found to be entirely acceptable in (say) Denmark can be rejected as quite inadequate only a few kilometres across the international boundary, into the neighbouring German regional state.
