Nowadays

harmonious coexistence between human and environment is important to social sustainable development. Various questions between human and environment are brought for the municipal solid waste increases sharply. The sanitary landfill method is considered as the most extensive and completed method which has got more and more concerns and been studied. The construction of sanitary landfill is closely related with a great deal of respects in the field of environmental geotechnology. On the basis of current materials which introduce the domestic and international relevant development situations

in accordance with the characteristics of Xi’an city

the following aspects: landfill site and type

solid waste engineering property index

seepage prevention treatment

settlement computation and slope stability are discussed. The corresponding suggestion and expected directions are also given.