Editorial

Advances in modern society coincide with the use and reuse of materials, consumption of resources and innovation in engineering applications. Commiserate with technical advances comes environmental- and energy depletion-related concerns, which must be balanced with the need to develop industrial and agricultural activities. Environmental geotechnics attempts to span the gap between environmental-related problems and geotechnical considerations for construction and design of infrastructure, but particularly in designing controls for contaminants. Controlling pollutants goes beyond in situ subsurface containment or destruction to novel reuses of industrial byproducts, new uses for natural geomaterials, energy generation or capture from industrial activities, to understanding osmotic...