SMART data collection and inteGRation platform to enhance

availability and accessibility of data and infOrmation in

the EU territory on SecoNDary Raw Materials

Overview of Smart Ground project

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Rawfill – SMARTGOUND workshop Sardinia 2019

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under Grant Agreement No 641988
1. SMART GROUND ID

• Project Start Date: 01 October 2015

• Project Duration: 30 Months

• Total Budget: 2.5 Mln

• EC contribution: 100 %

• 14 Partners from 5 EU countries

• H2020 - Waste 4c - 2014

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2. State of the Art

Enormous number of operational landfills

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3. SMART GROUND Objectives

To Collect • Quantitative and structural knowledge from existing SRM

To Integrate and Harmonize • The data and information collected

To Identify • The most promising markets

• The environmental, economic and social impacts triggered by

To Evaluate different processes

• The existing legislation at EU and national level on waste

To Analyze management and diffusion of best practices

• The social benefits of the positive impact of dumps exploitation to

To Support obtain SRM among citizens & policy makers

To Build a Secondary Raw • SMART GROUND Database

Materials Inventory

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4. Mining Europe - from waste to profit

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5. Waste Relevant for SMART GROUND

29% 9%

32%

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 6. Characterization of Pilot Sites

• Construction & Demolition Waste

• Municipal Waste

• Mining waste

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7. Estimating the Potential of Pilot sites

SMART GROUND Methodology:

Collection of information about landfill and SRM flows: number of

closed/active landfills, types & ages

Collection of indicators from landfills and processing plants

Quantitative indicators related to the investments & economical utilization of

SRM: actual research, sampling & laboratory analysis to verify the potential of
the landfills. Contacts with operators or associations to guarantee co-
operation.

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8. WP Structure

WP1
WP6 Management
Characterization
and modeling of
potential site

WP4
WP3
Implementation -
Databank Training -
creation Networking

WP2
Material flow,
socio-economic
and
environmental WP5 Dissemination & Exploitation
impacts

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9. Tools

Enhanced Landfill Mining Toolkits Decision Support Tool

Available at: Available at:
www.smart-ground.eu/training-toolkits.php www.smart-ground.eu/training-dst.php

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9. Enhanced Landfill Mining Toolkits

• Present necessary information for stakeholders interested in conducting an Enhanced

Landfill Mining project

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9. Decision Support Tool

• Provides:
• Economic evaluation
• Environmental assessment
• Social valuation
for a proposed ELFM project
• Five MSW compositions (or input own)
• Typical/own parameters
• Nine ELFM scenarios differing in level of
processing and technological effort
• Selection criteria
• Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)

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10. SMART GROUND Platform

Unique user-friendly database

Cartography-
satellite
imagery

SMART GROUND

Reports &
Statistics
Advanced Search &
Retrieval
Data from EU
Open Database
INSPIRE & ISO
Compliant

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 10. SMART GROUND Market Place & Needs Fulfilled

Constructors and civil engineering:

Identify companies that provide Legislators:
recycled materials for construction. Decision making for evaluating
feasibility from environmental
Citizens: point of view
More transparency and access to Regulatory compliance and
general information about landfill regulation adaptation
mining and its evolution
Provide data for their statistics

Decision makers:
Decision making for evaluating feasibility from
Academia: environmental and financial point of view
Find suitable data to feed their analysis and research Offer their available SRM, consult the price of
To easy the exchange of experiences, knowledge and SRM of other landfills, and identify
results potential demand and recycling companies
To spread the results of their research Optimise extraction and mining operations
Students: find information and data to develop their
Managers of waste recycling
works and research work at college
companies:
Find suitable waste material provider.

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10. Smart Ground database

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10. Smart Ground database

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10. Smart Ground database

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10. Smart Ground database

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10. Smart Ground database

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11. Smart Ground homepage

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