ABSTRACT
While land disposal continues to be the cheapest of disposal technologies from an initial cost standpoint, there are implications beyond initial cost that must be considered. As land disposal is and always will be simply land storage, it represents nothing more than a stopgap measure for proper waste management. Just as the disposal of nonhazardous wastes has begun to move toward such technologies as trash-to-steam to solve space problems, the hazardous waste management industry has moved towards thermal, chemical, and biological treatment methods as the answers to disposal problems. That hazardous waste management is still a relatively new industry and that traditional disposal methods have been inexpensive has provided little incentive in the past for large expenditures on research into new technologies. Colleges and universities have generally been slow to offer courses in hazardous waste management.
