Scope and focus of RAWFILL

project

Marta POPOVA

European Projects Manager

SPAQUE
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 SPAQυE company, Walloon region, Belgium in key figures:

 1991 created by the initiative of the Walloon government

 85 experts (soil, groundwater, human health, energy)
 55 brownfields with developped economic projects, or
 599,5 of ha valorised in Wallonia
 17 ongoing rehabilitation projects, or 204 ha
 17 rehabilitated landfills, or 224,87 ha
 6 000 potentially polluted sites
 30 sites under environmental supervision
 9 projects of renewable energy (photovoltaics, biomass, biogas)

RAWFILL
RAWFILL = RAW materials recovered from landFILLs

Funding: Interreg North – West Europe (2014-2020)

Duration: March 2017 – September 2020

Budget: € 3.8 million (€ 2.29 million ERDF)

RAWFILL: focus on developing new methods to reduce

the economic risk of launching LFM projects

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RAWFILL thackles the following challenges :

- Environmental risks: +/- 100.000 landfill sites in NWE-

local pollution, human health, flooding risk, high after-care
costs, etc.

- Lack of detailed information related to the economical

potential of landfill sites (quantity, quality, value of
recoverable materials and of the land)

- The high costs of investigation methods on landfill sites in

order to support the evaluation of their economic potential

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RAWFILL’s contribution to encourage future profitable LFM projects :

1. A common enhanced structure of inventories of landfill sites (ELIF)

by integrating their economic potential

2. An innovative investigation method of landfill sites by optimising the

traditional methods of soil sampling and using modern geophysical
multi - methods of characterisation

3. A Decision Support Tool (RAWFILL DST) supporting a step-wise

decision making for a dynamic landfill management

These methodologies are currently being tested on several pilot sites.

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 Pilot sites of RAWFILL –
for testing some of the tools

Stockley Le Marais, Meerhout,

park (UK) BE BE

Emersons
Green, Leppe,
UK DE

Lingreville,
FR

Les Champs Onoz site,

Jouault, FR BE

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Long-term effects - 2 working groups :

- a LFM knowledge sharing group with the EURELCO platform and

with other interested stakeholders from the NWE regions

- a LFM policy platform – dedicated group of policy promoters within

the LFM platform – recommandations to foster policy change

22nd October - Workshop on the landfill of Leppe in Lindlar, Germany

interested in joining the WGs ? Contact me!

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RAWFILL project unites 8 partners from 4 EU regions with
complementary expertise:

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 Advisory Board of RAWFILL

- 23 Associated partners and other stakeholders

- Mission of the members :

1. Dissemination of the project results

2. Expanding the number of stakeholders and interested groups in LFM
3. Sharing experience in LFM
4. Exchanging expert opinion/ recommandations on the project activities and
delivrables

3rd Advisory Board meeting on December 3rd in Brussels

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Claudia Neculau Marta Popova
Coordinator of RAWFILL European Projects Manager

c.neculau@spaque.be m.popova@spaque.be

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 Links between RAWFILL and SM@RTGROUND project

RAWFILL: characterise RAWFILL: rank LFs with

N° 2.
LFs regarding raw RAWFILL DST
materials & energy N° 3. regarding ELFM potential
potential
N° 4.
N° 1.
RAWFILL: select one LF
site and give all suitable
RAWFILL: ELIF and information
innovative characterisation
on preselected sites
N° 1.

Use SMARTGROUND
DST regarding ELFM
methods to process
raw materials

RAWFILL: set of
LFs in the ELIF

Process
LFM project
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