Prof. Lechner di BPLHD Jabar

Prof. Lechner, I would like to thank you about your explanation to my questions. In Indonesia, the difficulty on solid waste management is social responsibility, and not the technology. Not only the people on grass root, but also the public servants and politicians haven’t take care to their refuse and community sanitation yet. We could say, all of the landfills in Indonesia are in the form of dump or open dumping, that not allowed in Austria.

Ok..., it’s a nice lecture. Good luck.

Gede H. Cahyana

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Senin, 9 Juli 2007 saya mengikuti kuliah ringkas Prof. Lechner di BPLHD Prov. Jawa Barat. Bertempat di kantornya di Jln. Naripan No. 25, Bandung, kuliah itu sedikit banyak memberikan satu tambahan ilmu tentang pengelolaan sampah di Austria. Sebagai dosen di Boku University, Austria, pakar persampahan ini memulainya dengan sanitary landfill (sanfil) lalu diikuti oleh composting.

Menurutnya, di Austria juga tidak semua orang sadar akan pengelolaan sampah. Masih banyak yang tak peduli pada sampah dan baru sebagian yang memilah-milah sampahnya. Hanya saja, mereka sudah punya sanfil yang betul-betul sanfil, artinya dikelola dengan taat asas sehingga air lindinya (leachate) pun sudah disalurkan dan diolah. Bagaimana di negara kita? Jangankan di Bandung, dalam lingkup Indonesia saja hal ini belum dilakukan (minimal dilakukan dengan baik).

Berikut ini profil singkat Prof. Peter Lechner.

Sekarang sebagai Head of the Institute for Waste Management, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. 1970 Master of Science (MSc) in Civil Engineering and Water Management at BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. 1974 to 1993 Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management, Vienna University of Technology. 1988 Doctoral Thesis (PhD): Optimizing of Composting, Vienna University of Technology. Since 1993 Institute of Waste Management, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna.

The research conducted by Prof. Lechner deals with subjects related to the study of:

• Organic matter, biological treatment methods including old landfill sites and landfills for mechanically and biologically pretreated waste (Goals: Development of methods based on natural and biological processes and methods of analysis which produce new additional information, promote understanding of biological mechanisms and enable product and process control).
• Inorganic Wastes and Incineration Residues Including Industrial Waste Disposal Sites (Goals: Development of methods and techniques for the pretreatment and assessment of incineration residues and inorganic wastes; Development of an understanding of the short- and long-term occurrence of mechanisms affecting the stabilisation and destabilisation of landfilled waste by using modern analytical methods and modelling of such processes).
• Waste Logistics (Goals: Development and assessment of methods and techniques for the control of product and material streams and their composition, as well as of information flows in keeping with best practices in the co-ordination of logistics. When looking for optimum solutions, it is necessary to investigate the processes of waste generation, collection and recovery and their background with due consideration of social aspects, and to estimate and quantify the impact and changes of such parameters).

External professional activities:

1970 to 1972 Siemens AG, Austria
1972 to 1974 Civil Engineering Office Lengyel in Vienna

Other: He is Founder member and Chairman of the Austrian Compost Quality Society (Kompostgüteverband Österreich), Member of several standards committees, Consultant for the City of Vienna and waste management companies, Member of the editorial strategy group of the journal Waste Management, Member of the editorial board of the journal Müll und Abfall.

Some recent papers:

Lechner P., Smidt E.: Humic acids, a parameter for compost quality – a new approach for a sustainable soil management. In: Proceedings SARDINIA 2003 Ninth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium (6-10 October 2003, S.Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) / CD. Hrsg.: T.H. CHRISTENSEN, R. COSSU, R. STEGMANN. CISA, 2003.

MOSTBAUER P., RIEGLER H., LECHNER P.: Artificial Weathering of Inorganic Waste – Evaluation of Laboratory Weathering and Leaching Methods. In: Proceedings SARDINIA 2003 Ninth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium (6-10 October 2003, S.Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) / CD. Hrsg.: T.H. CHRISTENSEN, R. COSSU, R. STEGMANN. CISA, 2003.

H.-HUMER M., LECHNER P.: Effect of Methane Oxidation on the Water Balance of the Landfill Cover and the Vegetation Layer. In: Proceedings SARDINIA 2003 Ninth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium (6-10 October 2003, S.Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) / CD. Hrsg.: T.H. CHRISTENSEN, R. COSSU, R. STEGMANN. CISA, 2003.

SABBAS T., POLETTINI A., POMI R., ASTRUP T., HJELMAR O., MOSTBAUER P., CAPPAI G, MAGEL G., SALHOFER S., SPEISER C., HEUSS-ASSBICHLER S., KLEIN R., LECHNER P. (members of the pHOENIX working group on Management of MSWI Residues): Management of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Residues. In: Waste Management 23 (2003), pp. 61-88, Elsevier Science Ltd., 2003.

SMIDT E., LECHNER P., SCHWANNINGER M., HABERHAUER G., GERZABEK M.H.: Characterization of Waste Organic Matter by FT-IR Spectroscopy: Application in Waste Science. In: Applied Spectroscopy Vol. 56, No. 9, p. 1170 f. Hrsg.: Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 2002.

LECHNER P., HEISS-ZIEGLER C., H.-HUMER M.: How Composting Can Optimize Landfilling. In: BioCycle - Journal of Composting & Organics Recycling Vol. 43 No. 9 (September 2002), The JG Press Inc., ISSN 0276-5055, 2002.

MOSTBAUER P., LECHNER P., SABBAS T.: Long-Term Impact of Waste Storage on the Environment. In: Conference Proceedings and Monographs, Vol. 2, Ecology and Eco-Technologies, Proceedings of the Review Conference on the scientific cooperation between Austria and Poland (24.-28. Februar 2002, Wien), pp. 223-231. Hrsg.: Marian A. Herman, Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 2002.

SABBAS T., LECHNER P.: Developing an Assessment Method for the Middle- to Long-Term Pollutant Flux of Inorganic Residues. In: Proceedings from the Solid Waste Association of North America’s 6th Annual Landfill Symposium, pp. 153-163, SWANA, Silver Spring, 2001.

HUMER M., LECHNER P.: Microorganisms Against The Greenhouse Effect – Suitable Cover Layers For The Elimination of Methane Emissions From Landfills. In: Proceedings from the Solid Waste Association of North America’s 6th Annual Landfill Symposium, pp. 153-163, SWANA, Silver Spring, 2001.

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