Corporate presentation European Enhanced Landfill Mining Consortium (EURELCO) - Jones - February 2015

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Peter Tom Jones (General Coordinator EURELCO)
ENHANCED LANDFILL MINING: Remining Europe

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What is Enhanced
Landfill Mining
– Rationale and
Definition

3. • EU Waste Management is
governed by the EU Waste
Hierarchy (Ladder of Lansink)
• Key attention for climbing the
ladder for freshly created Urban
Solid Waste and Industrial
Waste FLOWS, leading to:
• Improved recycling
technologies
• Incineration RUSW with
energy recovery
• Phasing out landfilling
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EU Waste Management versus Urban Mining/Recycling

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Present situation for RUSW: landfilling and incineration still dominate

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Solutions: Comprehensive Raw Materials Programme
Use
End-of-Life
New scrap
Metals, alloys
and compounds
Natural
resources
1. Recycling
2. Substitution
150.000-500.000
Landfills in EU-28
Single-use USW
Mixed USW/IW
Monolandfills
containing industrial
residues
Raw
materials
production
ELFM
resources
Primary mining
3. Primary mining
Enhanced landfill
mining
Product
manufacture
1. Recycling/Urban
Mining

6. • EU-28: 150,000 to 500,000 historic and active landfills
• Varying in size, depth, type, degree and monitoring level (Single
Use USW Landfills, Mixed USW/IW Landfills, monolandfills
containing one particular Industrial Waste residue, managed
versus unmanaged landfills
• These landfills constitute enormous resource stocks which can
no longer be ignored, independently of the required recycling
policies and technologies for dealing with newly generated
waste flows
• ELFM = RE-MINING EUROPE!
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ELFM Rationale

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Solutions: Comprehensive Raw Materials Programme
Use
End-of-Life
New scrap
Metals, alloys
and compounds
Natural
resources
1. Recycling
2. Substitution
150.000-500.000
Landfills in EU-28
Single-use USW
Mixed USW/IW
Monolandfills
containing industrial
residues
Raw
materials
production
ELFM
resources
Primary mining
3. Primary mining
Enhanced landfill
mining
Product
manufacture
1. Recycling/Urban
Mining

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(Enhanced) Landfill Mining: Various landfill types

9. Definition ELFM –
Flemish ELFM
Consortium
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Enhanced Landfill Mining =
“the integrated valorization of (historic
and/or future) landfilled waste streams as
both materials (Waste-to-Material) and
energy (Waste-to-Energy), using innovative
transformation technologies and respecting
the most stringent social and ecological
criteria.”
Enhanced Landfill Mining in view of multiple
resource recovery: a critical review

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Enhanced Landfill Mining – transdisciplinary science
Quadruple Helix Innovation
• Government, Academia, Industry and Citizens collaborating together
to drive structural changes far beyond the scope of any one
organisation could achieve on it’s own
• Involve all stakeholders in quadruple helix to innovate and
experiment in real world settings, in creating frictionless ecosystems

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ELFM In-situ mining version (without full excavation)
Leachate generation
(active)
Biogas
Upgrading
Leachate generation
(passive)
Biometallurgy
Solvometallurgy
Metal
recovery
Metal
Solubilisation
Monolandfills
containing
industrial residues
ESR1
ESR2
ESR3
ESR4
Mixed Urban Solid
Waste/Industrial
Waste Landfills
Biogass production
(passive)

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ELFM Ex-situ mining version (with full excavation)
metals
fines
ESR5-6
Vitreous
by-product
RDFPreprossessing
syngas
metals
ESR7-10
Thermal
conversion
Inorganic
polymers
Glass
ceramics
Valorization
ESR11-12
Mixed Urban Solid
Waste/Industrial
Waste Landfills
Possible scheme for ex-situ ELM for USW type of landfills

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ELFM and GasPlasma – beyond incineration:
from downcycling to upcycling

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ELFM and GasPlasma – beyond incineration:
from downcycling to upcycling
Improving the intrinsic business case of the ELFM project

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The rise of Enhanced
Landfill Mining
– Achievements

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Enhanced Landfill
Mining (ELFM) has
gradually obtained
more coverage and
credibility in the EU:
• Flanders: Multi-actor research consortium since 2008
www.elfm.eu

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ELFM Consortium Governance model

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Enhanced Landfill
Mining (ELFM) has
gradually obtained
more coverage and
credibility in the EU:
• Flanders: Multi-actor research consortium since 2008
www.elfm.eu
• Several national research projects are running in
Flanders, Wallonia, the Netherlands,
Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic Region, Austria,
etc.
• Erection EUROPEAN ENHANCED LANDFILL MINING
Consortium in march 2014 www.eurelco.org
• EURELCO received EIP RMC Status

19. EIP RMC status EURELCO
• An RMC is a joint undertaking by
several partners, who commit to
activities aimed at achieving the
EIP's objectives between 2014
and 2020
• Early 2014 the High Level Steering
Group of the EIP confirmed that
80 commitments fulfilled the
required criteria.
• EURELCO was one of the 80
commitments that were given
the official status of “EIP RMC,
thereby corroborating the EU-
wide relevance of the vision
and mission of EURELCO.
• The EURELCO RMC was initially
signed by KU Leuven, VITO,
Group Machiels (Belgium),
Stena Metall & Linköping
University (Sweden) and VTT
(Finland).
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Enhanced Landfill
Mining (ELFM) has
gradually obtained
more coverage and
credibility in the EU:
• Flanders: Multi-actor research consortium since 2008
www.elfm.eu
• Several national research projects are running in
Flanders, Wallonia, the Netherlands,
Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic Region, Austria,
etc.
• Erection EUROPEAN ENHANCED LANDFILL MINING
Consortium in march 2014 www.eurelco.org
• EURELCO received EIP RMC Status
• ELFM is key part of new EIT KIC Raw Materials

21. • Western co-location centre, hosted
at KU Leuven, unites industrial and
research core partners from
Belgium, Germany and the
Netherlands.
• Main areas of innovation will be:
• Recycling of complex End-of-Life
products and urban mining;
• Recovery of valuable RM from
industrial residues and landfill
mining;
• Circular economy;
• And Substitutes (lightweight,
composites); Deep exploration and
mining (incl. sea floor); Mineral
processing.
• Also “Eastern” CLC with MUL works
on this item of ELFM
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EIT Raw Materials Integrates ELFM at the highest
level

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Why
EURELCO
?

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Non-technical barriers are manifest:
• Legal (e.g. Landfill Directive &
Waste Framework Directive)
• Social acceptance (NIMBYISM)
• Economics (public versus private benefits)
• Resistance by several (traditional)
industrial sectors
Nevertheless, acceptance of
the concept and commercial
breakthrough of ELFM less
straightforward than for
urban mining of critical
metals

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Establishment
of EURELCO
– March 11, 2014

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46 Members, 12 EU Member States, 1000 € Entrance fee
Company Knowledge Institute Association Public Body
Aachen University
Montanuniversität Leoben
Arche, Bioterra, DEME, Ecorem, Envisan,
GreenVIlle, InSpyro, JM Recycling NV, Point
Consulting Group, Tauw, Witteveen en Bos
Ghent University, KU Leuven, Uhasselt,
VITO, i-Cleantech Vlaanderen ANB, OVAM
OonKAY Deltares, Wageningen University
Axion Consulting, Terra Recovery
Cardiff School of Engineering, Cranfield
University
Danish Waste Association
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de
Aveiro, New university of Lisbon
CINIGeo - Consorzio Interuniversitario
Nazionale per l’Ingegneria delle
Georisorse, University of Padova National Research Council of Italy
VTT
Enveco National Technical University of Athens
LundaHydro, Stena, ScanArc
KTH, Linköping University, Linnaeus
University
Estonian University of Life Sciences

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46 Members

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Mission and
vision

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Mission. To be a an open, quadruple helix
network that supports the required
technological, legal, social, economic,
environmental and organisational innovation
with respect to Enhanced Landfill Mining within
the context of a transition to a circular,
low carbon economy.

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Vision. By 2020 Enhanced Landfill Mining is implemented EU
wide as a key component of a resource efficient, circular and
low carbon economy. The EU’s 150.000 to 500.000 landfills
provide for a substantial part of the EU’s material, energy
and land needs. ELFM has paved the way for breakthrough
exploration, separation, transformation and upcycling
technologies that are also used for recycling/urban mining
of newly produced waste and residues.

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Tasks

31. • Maps and shares information on Enhanced
Landfill Mining projects and programmes in
the EU’s Member States;
• Further elaborates Enhanced Landfill Mining;
• Integrates ELFM with both traditional
recycling/urban mining and other landfill
mining concepts (…);
• Keeps track and stimulates the innovation in
science and technology for exploration,
excavation, separation/recovery,
transformation/upcycling (…);
• Analyses national and EU Landfill and
Waste/Materials Management legislation;
• Develops policy guidelines for improved
legislation frameworks (revised EU Waste
Hierarchy) and economic incentives in line
with the expected public benefits of ELFM;
• Develops and applies scientifically based
methods for evaluating ELFM in terms of
social, environmental and economic impacts,
from a local, regional to global perspective;
• Develops and executes ELFM research,
demonstration and coordination projects;
• Disseminates the technological and non-
technological features of ELFM (..)
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EURELCO is a network that

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EURELCO Management Structure

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EURELCO National ELFM Consortia
Figure 3: Schematic diagram of
the envisaged network of
national ELFM Consortium
networks

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Thank you
for your attention

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