This document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Ir. Peter Tom Jones at an EURELCO meeting in Brussels on enhanced landfill mining (ELFM). It discusses the scope of EURELCO's work, which includes ex situ mining of waste from landfills and in situ mining without excavation. EURELCO targets mixed municipal solid waste/industrial waste landfills and landfills containing industrial residues and tailings. The document also provides details on EURELCO's management structure, current and proposed projects, dissemination activities including its website and future conferences, and invites new members.

1. Dr. Ir. Peter Tom Jones (GC EURELCO, KU Leuven)
11-11-2014
EIP RMC Meeting Brussels
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2. SCOPE WP2 -
Ex situ
Product
manufacture
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 and tailings
SCOPE WP1 – In situ
Raw
materials
production
ELFM
resources
Primary mining
3. Primary mining
Enhanced landfill
mining
Rationale EURELCO: “re-mining Europe”
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Figure: adapted from original K. Meskers (Umicore) figure

3. Scope ELFM
•Enhanced Landfill Mining =
•“integrated valorisation of landfilled waste streams as metals, other materials and energy (carriers), using innovative transformation technologies and respecting the most stringent social and ecological criteria.” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.05.021)
•ELFM is both relevant for
•ex situ mining (conditioning and excavation of waste + subsequent processing and upcycling)
•in situ mining (where metals and energy are generated from the landfill body without excavating the waste).
•Various landfill types
•Mixed USW/IW landfills
•Monolandfills containing industrial residues and tailings
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4. EURELCO targets both USW landfills and landfills containing industrial residues and tailings
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5. The rise of Enhanced Landfill Mining – the good news
•Flanders: Multi-actor research consortium since 2008
•> 10 national ELFM research/ demonstration projects are running
•Flanders, Wallonia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Baltic Region, Austria, etc.
•Erection EURELCO in march 2014 - EIP RMC Status since early 2014
•Landfill mining in EIT KIC Factsheet
•Landfill mining integrated in EIT KIC RawMatTERS proposal
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Up to 500.000 landfills in Europe

6. Establishment of EURELCO - March 11, 2014
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46 Members, 12 EU Member States, 1000 € Entrance fee
GA, September 2014, Copenhagen: 56 Participants

7. EURELCO Management Structure
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8. EURELCO Projects
Running projects:
•> 10 National R&D projects in Belgium, Germany, UK, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Greece etc.
•Supporting the CTC (Demonstration) Project of Group Machiels (cf. EIP RMC CTC)
•Strong link to new EU H2020 MSCA-ETN REDMUD project (connected to other EIP RMCs such as Mud2Metal, BRAVO)
EURELCO proposals:
•Interreg Europe (in preparation): “share and capitalise on regional good practices in developing and implementing Enhanced Landfill Mining principles and activities
•Urban Metabolism (WASTE- 6) (in preparation)
•MSCA-ETN REMINE
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9. EURELCO Dissemination
•www.eurelco.org
•Next General Assembly (Brussels, 2015):
•Invitation to EIP Members to go into debate about the role of ELFM in EU-28
•ELFM III (Lisboa, 2016):
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10. EURELCO pr
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EURELCO welcomes new members: www.eurelco.org