This document provides an overview of a networking session on circular economy concepts and landfill mining. The session will include presentations on landfill mining situations across Europe and potential case studies from the UK and Hungary. Impacts of landfill mining on soil and from soil will also be discussed. Additional presentations will cover a circular economy approach, case studies of specific landfill mining and aggregate recycling projects, and applying circular economy concepts to the quarrying industry. The overall goals of the session are to address issues around huge amounts of waste, preserve non-renewable natural resources, and minimize negative environmental impacts through approaches like waste recycling, landfill mining, and exploiting waste as secondary raw materials.

1. NETWORKING SESSION:
Circular economy and landfill mining: key
concepts to exploit waste as new resources
Session overview
Giovanna Antonella Dino
Earth Science Department, University of Torino, Italy

2. Overview of the networking session
Landfill mining situation across Europe and potential with a UK case study: Dr. Diogo
Gomes (Cranfield University)
Overview of landfill mining impacts: Eng. Ernő Garamvölgyi (Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd,
Hungary)
Evaluating impacts on the soil and from the soil: Prof. Franco Ajmone Marsan
(Università di Torino)
Circular economy approach: Dr. Laszlo Drescher (MKM, Hungary)
Case studies:
SMART GROUND project presentation: Eng. Marco Delafeld (ENCO)
 Landfill mining: the point of view of a MSW management company (landfill
and treatment plant): Eng. Davide Mainero (ACEA Pinerolese)
Aggregate from C&DW: the point of view of a C&DW recycling plant: Dr. Carlo
Colombino (Cavit srl)
Circular economy approach in quarrying industry: the point of view of an
industrial mineral producer: Dr. Alessio Lorenzi (Minerali Industriali srl)

3. HUGE AMOUNTS OF WASTE
WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RICYCLING IS AN ISSUE WHICH INVOLVES
INDUSTRIES, LOCAL ADMINISTRATION, AND CITIZEN AT LARGE

4. COMMUNITY
• visual “pollution”
• land waste
• stability problems
• risks of environmental
pollution
ENTERPRISES
 disposal costs
 need for large dumping areas
 environmental rehabilitation costs
 constraint to quarry development
NON-RENEWABLE NATURAL
RESOURCES PRESERVATION
(EU CHALLENGE)
NEGATIVE IMPACTS MINIMISATION
WASTE RECICLYNG
(EU CHALLENGE)

5. TOPRESERVENATURALRESOURCES,SEVERALEU
RESEARCHESAIMTOEXPLOITWASTEFROMLANDFILLS
LANDFILLMININGAPPROACH
(typicalformunicipallandfill
butadaptabletominingand
quarrywaste)
CRITICAL RAW
MATERIALS (CRM)
SECONDARY RAW
MATERIALS (SMR)
4R WASTE HIERARCHY,
REPLACING WASTE WITH
RESERVE (FOR THE FUTURE OR
RESOURCE)
WASTE SHOULD NOT BE
CONSIDERED AS WASTE BUT
AS RESOURCE/RESERVE

6. 1. MINIMIZATION OF WASTE PRODUCTION
HOW ?
CHALLENGE:
1. NATURAL RESOURCE PRESERVATION
2. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
2. EMPLOYMENT OF EACH PRODUCT ARISING FROM EXPLOITATION/PRODUCTIVE
ACTIVITIES:
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
SRM
BY-PRODUCTS
FUNDAMENTAL NEW ACTIVITY PLANNING PHASE
CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPROACH

7. Project Coordinator
Marco de la Feld
ENCO s.r.l.
m.delafeld@enco-consulting.it
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under Grant Agreement No 641988