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12/7/2016 NeWS A7. Circular economy and landfill mining: key concepts to exploit waste as new resources SUM2016
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NeWS A7. Circular economy and landfill mining: keyconcepts to exploit waste as new resources
SESSION A7 17:20 – 19:00
Chair / Presidente: G. Dino (IT)
Raw materials (RM) and Critical Raw Materials (CRM), are both crucial to Europe’s economy,industry and growth. Minerals and metals represent the basis for any industrial productionprocess. They provide both everyday products and new solutions for modern infrastructureand technologies. Increase in population and living standards will continue to drive growingdemand for raw materials. Due to these developments resource efficiency measures suchas optimizing reuse and recycling of these materials from anthropogenic deposits such aslandfills is of increasing relevance. Europe has somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000landfill sites which represent potentially a significant reserve of critical and secondary rawmaterials (CRM and SRM). Such “new ore bodies”, from municipal and industrial landfills aswell as from mining waste can be exploited through landḆکll mining. This approach to wastemanagement is closely linked to two pillars of the EU policy: waste recycling and resourcepreservation.
Furthermore, the recent adoption of the EU Circular Economy Strategy which includesrevised legislative proposal on waste waste management, has introduced a step change inthe productive cycles planning: each productive cycle has to be re-designed, in order not toproduce waste. Each product coming from a productive activity (products, by-products,secondary raw materials, etc…) has to be employed as “final product”, SRM for otherproductive cycles, etc…: very little quantity of waste has to be landfilled.
In this context it is fundamental to highlight that WASTE has to be considered as aRESOURCE. The two key concepts that underpin these new resources are: landḆکll miningand circular economy approaches.
The discussions and debates introduced in the present networking session are:
“state of the art” about EU waste production and waste management
landfill mining situation across Europe and potential with a UK case study
impacts (positive/negative) connected to waste management VS impacts
(positive/negative) connected to landfill mining
recycling potential of SRM
circular economy approach
Case studies:
SMART GROUND project presentation
Landfill mining: the point of view of a MSW management company (landfill and treatment
plant)
Aggregate from C&DW: the point of view of a C&DW recycling plant
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