While not specific to tailings, knowledge of geosynthetics is valuable to tailings engineers. This webinar presents an overview of the worldwide industry known as “Geosynthetics”. Each type will be described and elements of their primary design function will also be explained. Applications will then be addressed in the four major thrust areas that geosynthetics have focused upon. They are: transportation and geotechnical (paved and unpaved roads, walls, slopes); geoenvironmental (landfills, surface impoundments); hydraulic engineering (dams, tunnels, canals); and private development (parks, sport fields, aquaculture, agriculture).