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Indonesia’s waste and mining slopes under pressure: Deadly landfill collapse in Bekasi and industrial landslide in Morowali
- Mar, 09, 2026
- Landslides Landfill Engineering Slope Stabilization News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Indonesia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A major waste landslide at the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST) in Bekasi, West Java, has resulted in multiple fatalities and renewed concerns about landfill stability at one of S...
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Large-scale landfill slope failure strikes central Philippines
- Jan, 10, 2026
- Landslides Landfill Engineering Slope Stability News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Philippines
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Rescue teams in Cebu City are continuing round-the-clock operations after a massive landfill collapse at the privately operated Binaliw site left dozens of workers missing. The failure occurred while...
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Landslide at Cebu City landfill kills one, exposes waste slope stability risks
- Jan, 08, 2026
- Landslides Landfill Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Philippines, Cebu City
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A fatal landslide struck the Cebu City landfill in Barangay Binaliw on January 8, 2026, claiming the life of one landfill worker and injuring several others. The collapse affected a Material Recovery...
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Purdue Geotechnical Society’s 19th G.A Leonards Lecture now on YouTube
- May, 05, 2023
- Geoenvironmental Engineering Remediation Technology Contaminant Transport Geosynthetics For Containment Landfill Engineering Groundwater & Seepage Other Geotechnical News On Research / Academia Other News
- United States, Indiana, West Lafayette
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
Professor Krishna Reddy gave the 19th G.A. Leonards Lecture on “Sustainability and Resiliency-Based Innovation: Research and Practices in Geoenvironmental Engineering”, which was hosted by the Purdue...
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Large waste landslide struck in Colombia's landfill
- Apr, 28, 2020
- Landfill Engineering Landslides Site Characterization & In-Situ Testing (General) News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Colombia, Bogotá
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A large waste landslide struck in a landfill located outside of Bogota, the capital city of Colombia. The incident occurred in Dona Juana, a sanitary landfill that receives mixed municipal solid wast...
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FHWA publishes research report on Spread Footings for Highway Bridges
- Dec, 20, 2017
- News On Research / Academia Ground Improvement Landfill Engineering Geomatics Deep Foundations Foundation Design / Construction
- Singapore
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The FHWA National Geotechnical Team announces the availability of the completed research report titled "Selection of Spread Footings on Soils to Support Highway Bridge Structures" (FHWA-RC/TD-10-001)....
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Paper documents failure at Payatas landfill in the Philippines that killed 330
- Jul, 10, 2000
- News On Publications Landfill Engineering Slope Stability
- landfill κοντά Payatas, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A paper published by Jafari, Prof. Tim Stark and Prof. Scott Merry describes the conditions under which the ~30 m failure took place. The paper is part of Vol. 2 Issue 3 of the International Journal o...
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Waste Slide at a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill in the island of Zakynthos, Greece
- Jan, 26, 2013
- Other News Landfill Engineering Landslides
- Zakynthos, Greece
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Numerous news outlets in Greece report on Saturday the 26th of January, that a waste slide took place at the Municipal Solid Waste landfill of the island of Zakynthos in Greece. The slide took plac...
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