Introduction to LFM

Marta POPOVA
European Projects Manager
RAWFILL project

SPAQUE, Belgium

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Introduction to LFM

 State of the art:

~ 500.000 landfill sites in Europe

 Threats:
Environment, land-use restrictions
and global negative impacts

 Opportunities:
Recovery of large volumes of
resources through Landfill Mining

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Landfill Mining: a process for extracting minerals or other solid

natural resources from waste materials that previously have been
deposit of by burying them in the ground.

Interest of landfill mining: to reduce the amount of landfill mass

encapsulated within the closed landfill and/ or temporarily remove
hazardous material to allow protective measures to be taken before
the landfill mass is replaced.

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Introduction to LFM –
evolution of the landfill-related
terminology
Environment
ELFM2
H2O

LFM ELFM
WtL Dynamic ELFM
ELFM WtL Landfill
Management

WtM WtM
WtM WtE
WtE
Social aspects

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Introduction to LFM –
publications in the press

Series Annual Meeting New

Champions World Economic Forum
(21-6-2017)
Series 50 Ideas to Change the World
Financial Times (8-1-2018)

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RAWFILL

RAWFILL = RAW materials recovered from landFILLs

RAWFILL develops:

- knowledge and tools to provide reliable data on the landfill mining

potential of the landfills

- boost the launching of LFM projects

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