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12/02/2015 EURELCO | European Enhanced Landfill Mining Consortium 1

Peter Tom Jones (General Coordinator EURELCO)

ENHANCED LANDFILL MINING: Remining Europe


What is Enhanced Landfill Mining – Rationale and

Definition

• EU Waste Management is governed by the EU Waste Hierarchy (Ladder of Lansink)

• Key attention for climbing the

ladder for freshly created Urban Solid Waste and Industrial Waste FLOWS, leading to: • Improved recycling

technologies

• Incineration RUSW with energy recovery

• Phasing out landfilling


EU Waste Management versus Urban Mining/Recycling


Present situation for RUSW: landfilling and incineration still dominate


Solutions: Comprehensive Raw Materials Programme

Use

End-of-Life

New scrap

Metals, alloys and compounds

Natural resources

1. Recycling

2. Substitution

150.000-500.000 Landfills in EU-28

Single-use USW

Mixed USW/IW

Monolandfills containing industrial

residues

Raw materials

production

ELFM resources

Primary mining

3. Primary mining

Enhanced landfill mining

Product manufacture

1. Recycling/Urban Mining

• EU-28: 150,000 to 500,000 historic and active landfills • Varying in size, depth, type, degree and monitoring level (Single

Use USW Landfills, Mixed USW/IW Landfills, monolandfills containing one particular Industrial Waste residue, managed versus unmanaged landfills

• These landfills constitute enormous resource stocks which can no longer be ignored, independently of the required recycling policies and technologies for dealing with newly generated waste flows

• ELFM = RE-MINING EUROPE!


ELFM Rationale


Solutions: Comprehensive Raw Materials Programme

Use

End-of-Life

New scrap

Metals, alloys and compounds

Natural resources

1. Recycling

2. Substitution

150.000-500.000 Landfills in EU-28

Single-use USW

Mixed USW/IW

Monolandfills containing industrial

residues

Raw materials

production

ELFM resources

Primary mining

3. Primary mining

Enhanced landfill mining

Product manufacture

1. Recycling/Urban Mining


(Enhanced) Landfill Mining: Various landfill types

Definition ELFM – Flemish ELFM

Consortium


Enhanced Landfill Mining = “the integrated valorization of (historic and/or future) landfilled waste streams as both materials (Waste-to-Material) and energy (Waste-to-Energy), using innovative transformation technologies and respecting the most stringent social and ecological criteria.”

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

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.05.021

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.05.021


Enhanced Landfill Mining – transdisciplinary science

Quadruple Helix Innovation

• Government, Academia, Industry and Citizens collaborating together to drive structural changes far beyond the scope of any one organisation could achieve on it’s own

• Involve all stakeholders in quadruple helix to innovate and experiment in real world settings, in creating frictionless ecosystems


ELFM In-situ mining version (without full excavation)

Leachate generation (active)

Biogas Upgrading

Leachate generation (passive)

Biometallurgy

Solvometallurgy

Metal recovery

Metal Solubilisation

Monolandfills containing

industrial residues

ESR1

ESR2

ESR3

ESR4

Mixed Urban Solid Waste/Industrial Waste Landfills

Biogass production (passive)


ELFM Ex-situ mining version (with full excavation)

metals

fines

ESR5-6

Vitreous by-product

RDFPreprossessing

syngas

metals

ESR7-10

Thermal conversion

Inorganic polymers

Glass ceramics

Valorization

ESR11-12

Mixed Urban Solid Waste/Industrial Waste Landfills

Possible scheme for ex-situ ELM for USW type of landfills


ELFM and GasPlasma – beyond incineration: from downcycling to upcycling


ELFM and GasPlasma – beyond incineration: from downcycling to upcycling

Improving the intrinsic business case of the ELFM project


The rise of Enhanced Landfill Mining – Achievements

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Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) has gradually obtained more coverage and

credibility in the EU:

• Flanders: Multi-actor research consortium since 2008 www.elfm.eu

http://www.elfm.eu


ELFM Consortium Governance model

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• Several national research projects are running in Flanders, Wallonia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic Region, Austria, etc.

• Erection EUROPEAN ENHANCED LANDFILL MINING Consortium in march 2014 www.eurelco.org

• EURELCO received EIP RMC Status

http://www.elfm.eu

http://www.eurelco.org

EIP RMC status EURELCO

• An RMC is a joint undertaking by several partners, who commit to activities aimed at achieving the EIP's objectives between 2014 and 2020

• Early 2014 the High Level Steering Group of the EIP confirmed that 80 commitments fulfilled the required criteria.

• EURELCO was one of the 80 commitments that were given the official status of “EIP RMC, thereby corroborating the EU-wide relevance of the vision and mission of EURELCO.

• The EURELCO RMC was initially signed by KU Leuven, VITO, Group Machiels (Belgium), Stena Metall & Linköping University (Sweden) and VTT (Finland).


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• Several national research projects are running in Flanders, Wallonia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic Region, Austria, etc.

• Erection EUROPEAN ENHANCED LANDFILL MINING Consortium in march 2014 www.eurelco.org

• EURELCO received EIP RMC Status

• ELFM is key part of new EIT KIC Raw Materials

http://www.elfm.eu


• Western co-location centre, hosted at KU Leuven, unites industrial and research core partners from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

• Main areas of innovation will be: • Recycling of complex End-of-Life

products and urban mining; • Recovery of valuable RM from

industrial residues and landfill mining;

• Circular economy; • And Substitutes (lightweight,

composites); Deep exploration and mining (incl. sea floor); Mineral processing.

• Also “Eastern” CLC with MUL works

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EIT Raw Materials Integrates ELFM at the highest level


Why EURELCO

?


Non-technical barriers are manifest:

• Legal (e.g. Landfill Directive & Waste Framework Directive)

• Social acceptance (NIMBYISM)

• Economics (public versus private benefits)

• Resistance by several (traditional) industrial sectors

Nevertheless, acceptance of the concept and commercial

breakthrough of ELFM less straightforward than for urban mining of critical

metals


Establishment of EURELCO

– March 11, 2014


46 Members, 12 EU Member States, 1000 € Entrance fee

Company Knowledge Institute Association Public Body

Aachen University

Montanuniversität Leoben

Arche, Bioterra, DEME, Ecorem, Envisan, GreenVIlle, InSpyro, JM Recycling NV, Point Consulting Group, Tauw, Witteveen en Bos

Ghent University, KU Leuven, Uhasselt, VITO, i-Cleantech Vlaanderen ANB, OVAM

OonKAY Deltares, Wageningen University

Axion Consulting, Terra Recovery Cardiff School of Engineering, Cranfield University

Danish Waste Association

Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Aveiro, New university of Lisbon

CINIGeo - Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Ingegneria delle Georisorse, University of Padova National Research Council of Italy

VTT

Enveco National Technical University of Athens

LundaHydro, Stena, ScanArc KTH, Linköping University, Linnaeus University

Estonian University of Life Sciences


46 Members


Mission and vision


Mission. To be a an open, quadruple helix network that supports the required

technological, legal, social, economic, environmental and organisational innovation

with respect to Enhanced Landfill Mining within the context of a transition to a circular,

low carbon economy.


Vision. By 2020 Enhanced Landfill Mining is implemented EU wide as a key component of a resource efficient, circular and low carbon economy. The EU’s 150.000 to 500.000 landfills provide for a substantial part of the EU’s material, energy

and land needs. ELFM has paved the way for breakthrough exploration, separation, transformation and upcycling

technologies that are also used for recycling/urban mining of newly produced waste and residues.


Tasks

• Maps and shares information on Enhanced Landfill Mining projects and programmes in the EU’s Member States;

• Further elaborates Enhanced Landfill Mining;

• Integrates ELFM with both traditional recycling/urban mining and other landfill mining concepts (…);

• Keeps track and stimulates the innovation in science and technology for exploration, excavation, separation/recovery, transformation/upcycling (…);

• Analyses national and EU Landfill and Waste/Materials Management legislation;

• Develops policy guidelines for improved legislation frameworks (revised EU Waste Hierarchy) and economic incentives in line with the expected public benefits of ELFM;

• Develops and applies scientifically based methods for evaluating ELFM in terms of social, environmental and economic impacts, from a local, regional to global perspective;

• Develops and executes ELFM research, demonstration and coordination projects;

• Disseminates the technological and non-technological features of ELFM (..)


EURELCO is a network that


EURELCO Management Structure


EURELCO National ELFM Consortia

Figure 3: Schematic diagram of the envisaged network of national ELFM Consortium networks


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