10.17862/cranfield.rd.4898183.v1
Luisa Canopoli
Luisa
Canopoli
Stuart Wagland
Stuart
Wagland
Frederic Coulon
Frederic
Coulon
Landfill mining report_2016.pdf
Cranfield Online Research Data (CORD)
2017
landfill sites
Mining engineering
Raw materials
rare earth elements
Environmental Science
Civil Geotechnical Engineering
Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
Environmental Technologies
2017-04-21 10:46:25
Journal contribution
https://cord.cranfield.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Landfill_mining_report_2016_pdf/4898183
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era of rising consumption has led to resource scarcity across major industries.
One way to overcome this challenge and ascertain future supply of resources is
recovery of landfilled material. This so-called landfilled mining may valorise
previously discarded material streams for a number of purposes and contribute
to a circular economy. Across England and Wales, there are more than 20,000
landfill sites of which 90% have been closed before 1996. Besides the general
belief that valuable resources can be found within landfills, mining the waste
has a number of additional benefits. One stems from the fact that they often
lack modern environmental protection technology, which may lead to negative
environmental and health impacts. The combination of these facts poses an
interesting opportunity for combined resource-recovery and remediation
strategies. The report at hand is in place to assess viability and feasibility
of landfill mining processes across England and Wales in a step-wise approach