- Several research projects on “landfill mining (LFM)” have been conducted in the past.
Recent examples for these projects are “Landfill Mining Austria – Pilot Region Styria (LAMIS)”1 and the LFM project “MINE” under the leadership of FCC Austria Abfall Service AG, which was co-funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency and conducted in cooperation with the Horizon 2020 project “EU MSCA-ETN NEW-MINE”.
The project “MINE” was initiated to find out whether it is possible to detect hotspots (volume elements that e.g. contain relatively high amounts of metals) inside a landfill and whether a separation of high value materials is possible using a state of the art mechanical-biological-treatment-plant on site. This plant was neither built nor especially adapted for the task of processing landfill mining material, in order to find out whether the built-in machines can handle the excavated material. Most importantly the potential economic risks and opportunities of such a project shouldSeveral research projects on “landfill mining (LFM)” have been conducted in the past.
Recent examples for these projects are “Landfill Mining Austria – Pilot Region Styria (LAMIS)”1 and the LFM project “MINE” under the leadership of FCC Austria Abfall Service AG, which was co-funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency and conducted in cooperation with the Horizon 2020 project “EU MSCA-ETN NEW-MINE”.
The project “MINE” was initiated to find out whether it is possible to detect hotspots (volume elements that e.g. contain relatively high amounts of metals) inside a landfill and whether a separation of high value materials is possible using a state of the art mechanical-biological-treatment-plant on site. This plant was neither built nor especially adapted for the task of processing landfill mining material, in order to find out whether the built-in machines can handle the excavated material. Most importantly the potential economic risks and opportunities of such a project should be evaluated for a company contemplating a LFM project.…
