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Co-funded by the walloon

region

Overview of critical factors for


landfill mining projects
– drivers, health and safety
measures

Dr. eng. Claudia NECULAU


Coordinator of Rawfill
Head of R & D and Innovation Department - SPAQuE

Dr. Laura Lamair


Rawfill project assistant
R & D and Innovation Department - SPAQuE

RAWFILL - Sardinia Symposium 2019


Drivers to start a landfill
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mining project
region

Environmental protection

• Surface water and groundwater protection


• Landfill instability
• Decrease the biogas content
• Remove dangerous waste deposits
• Decrease the negative impacts related to the presence of the
landfill mining

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Drivers to start a landfill
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mining project
region

Ressource recovery

• Recovery of Soil
• Recovery of Energy
• Recovery of Critical
secondary material

(Mc Arthur foundation)

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Drivers to start a landfill
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mining project
region

Lifetime extension of the landfill

• Mainly in USA
• Difficulty to find new locations to implement new landfill

Decrease of the cost related to landfill post-closure care

• Strict requierement for landfill post-closure care


• Landfill mining = long-term solution

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Drivers to start a landfill
mining project
Ottignies
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region

Land recovery and urbanization

• Redevelopment project for Kelmis


residential, industrial and
recreative areas
• Increase the value of the lands
surrounding the landfill

(Example in Wallonia – SPAQuE inventory)

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Health improvement after
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landfill mining operations
region

• Decrease of anxiety related to the presence of waste deposits


• Increase of air, soil and water quality
• XX

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Safety measures
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region

• Biogas issue
- Risk of explosion during the landfill mining operations
- Biogas containing micro-pollutant

• Physical and chemical stability of the landfill


• Structural stability of the landfill
• Prevention or minimisation of pollutant leaching
• Landfill older than 1940 – Potential risks of finding bombs

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Co-funded by the walloon
region
Claudia Neculau
Coordinator of the projet RAWFILL

c.neculau@spaque.be

RAWFILL - Sardinia Symposium 2019

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