This book is a comprehensive and authoritative statement of a thorough research carried out on abandoned dumpsite soil and lateritic soil as liners and covers in waste containment structure. It provides a backgroud information to general principle, containment migration in abandoned and lateritic soil, and specific guidelines for the design of new waste containment facilities. This is as result of intensive research activities carried out in the Laboratory coppied over eight years experience in teaching undergraduate geotechnical engineering courses.