Enhanced Landfill Mining in view of multiple resource recovery: a critical review

Jones, Peter Tom; Geysen, Daneel; Tielemans, Yves; Passel, Steven Van; Pontikes, Yiannis; Blanpain, Bart; Quaghebeur, Mieke; Hoekstra, Nanne

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.05.021

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“…Moreover, enhanced landfill mining (ELFM) is proposed and defined as the ''the safe conditioning, excavation and integrated valorization of landfilled waste streams as both materials (Waste-to-Material, WtM) and energy (Waste-to-Energy, WtE), using innovative transformation technologies and respecting the most stringent social and ecological criteria'', and emphasized the material and energy recovery (Krook et al, 2012;Jones et al, 2013). The process of landfill mining and material-energy recovery is shown in Fig.…”

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“…After screening and separating the stored waste, metals and construction waste can be regenerated, soil-like materials can be applied as organic fertilizer to green spaces and gardens (Joseph et al, 2007), and materials with high calorific value can be treated by waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies (e.g. incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, plasma technologies, combinations) for energetic valorization and material recovery (Krook et al, 2012;Bosmans et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2013). Landfill mining is considered if the environmental pollution is urgent, land is scarce, or combustible waste treatment and energy recovery facilities are available (Zhao et al, 2007;Jain et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2013).…”

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“…incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, plasma technologies, combinations) for energetic valorization and material recovery (Krook et al, 2012;Bosmans et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2013). Landfill mining is considered if the environmental pollution is urgent, land is scarce, or combustible waste treatment and energy recovery facilities are available (Zhao et al, 2007;Jain et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2013). Recent researches mostly focuse on the components and characteristics of stored waste and http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2014.09.029 0956-053X/Ó 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.…”

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A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

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a b s t r a c tLandfill mining is an environmentally-friendly technology that combines the concepts of material recycling and sustainable waste management, and it has received a great deal of worldwide attention because of its significant environmental and economic potential in material recycling, energy recovery, land reclamation and pollution prevention. This work applied a cost-benefit analysis model for assessing the economic feasibility, which is important for promoting landfill mining. The model includes eight indicators of costs and nine indicators of benefits. Four landfill mining scenarios were designed and analyzed based on field data. The economic feasibility of landfill mining was then evaluated by the indicator of net present value (NPV). According to our case study of a typical old landfill mining project in China (Yingchun landfill), rental of excavation and hauling equipment, waste processing and material transportation were the top three costs of landfill mining, accounting for 88.2% of the total cost, and the average cost per unit of stored waste was 12.7 USD ton À1 . The top three benefits of landfill mining were electricity generation by incineration, land reclamation and recycling soil-like materials. The NPV analysis of the four different scenarios indicated that the Yingchun landfill mining project could obtain a net positive benefit varying from 1.92 million USD to 16.63 million USD. However, the NPV was sensitive to the mode of land reuse, the availability of energy recovery facilities and the possibility of obtaining financial support by avoiding post-closure care.

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“…The amount of waste deposited annually in the large dumpsites exceeded 1.5 million m 3 (350 000 t), thus the total accumulated amount of disposed waste could reach 3 million m 3 .…”

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“…[2] have defined the landfill mining as "a process for extracting minerals or other solid natural resources from waste materials that previously have been disposed of by burying them in the ground". If the focus is made on resource recovery from landfill, than it can be referred as enhanced landfill mining -"safe conditioning, excavation and integrated valorization of landfilled waste streams as both materials and energy, using innovative transformation technologies and respecting the most stringent social and ecological criteria" [3].…”

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Landfill Mining in Latvia

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A lot of efforts and scientific research have been done in the field of material and energy recovery from waste, offering source separation and recycling of waste, landfill gas extraction from landfill cells, composting of biodegradable waste etc. Nevertheless, disposal of waste in dumpsites and landfills has been and still is the most widely used waste management method throughout the world, including Latvia. In recent years a concept of a landfill as an endpoint of waste is slowly changing to a concept of landfill as a place for temporary storage of waste. According to Hogland et.al., there are up to 500 000 landfills and dumpsites in Europe, that contain valuable resources which can be recovered and used in production of new products. Since implementation of the Council Directive of April 26, 1999 on the landfill of waste, more than 500 dumpsites have been closed and 11 new sanitary landfills have started operating in Latvia. Largest part of the dumpsites are remediated, however the rest are still waiting for remediation projects. During the last twenty years practical examples of waste excavation from dumpsites and landfills have been carried out, showing that resource recovery from deposited waste can be a solution, especially in the cases of high land value or scarcity of covering materials. The aim of the paper is to assess the existing status of nonremediated dumpsites to identify the problems and challenges potentially faced for conducting the landfill mining projects in Latvia, as well as to show the existing practice on landfill mining in our country. The results of the paper show that some of the most challenging problems are issues of the ownership of dumpsites, the unknown content of the waste deposited, the lack of appropriate treatment technologies for excavated waste, as well as the lack of legislative acts concerning landfill mining and land use after cleaning of dump site. The case of excavating dumpsite 'Kekava' near Riga city is analyzed in the paper.

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The Sustainable Inorganic Materials Management (SIM²) Consortium at KU Leuven

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The transition towards resource efficient, closed-loop economies is an urgent necessity as our world is facing resource shortages and unprecedented environmental challenges. Research groups in Metallurgy, Geology, Chemical Engineering, Building Materials, Chemistry, Economics, Process Psychology and Law at KU Leuven (Belgium) have recently connected their expertise in the area of recovery and recycling of inorganic materials into a structural collaboration, the 'Sustainable Inorganic Materials Management' (SIM²) program. This has led to a growth and an intensification of research projects as well as local and international research cooperation, propelling SIM 2 In our presentation we will highlight the vision, the organization in collaborative programs as well as the research topics of the program at KU Leuven. In addition we will elucidate the role of SIM to a flagship topic for the involved research groups and for the KU Leuven as a whole. 2 in co-organizing a potential urban mining node for an EIT-KIC on critical raw materials.

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Enhanced Landfill Mining in view of multiple resource recovery: a critical review

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A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

Landfill Mining in Latvia

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Enhanced Landfill Mining in view of multiple resource recovery: a critical review

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A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

A cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining and material recycling in China

Landfill Mining in Latvia

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