Projet NEW-MINE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Europe has somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000 landfill sites, with an estimated 90% of them being “non-sanitary” landfills, predating the EU Landfill Directive of 1999. These older landfills tend to be filled with municipal solid waste and often lack any environmental protection technology. In order to avoid future environmental and health problems, many of these landfills will soon require expensive remediation measures. This situation might appear bleak, but it does present us with an exciting opportunity for a combined resource-recovery and remediation strategy, which will drastically reduce future remediation costs, reclaim valuable land, while at the same time unlocking billions of tonnes of valuable resources contained within these landfills. However, the widespread adoption of Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) in the EU, as envisaged by NEW-MINE, urgently requires skilled scientists, engineers, economists and policy makers who can develop cost-effective, environmentally friendly ELFM practices and regulatory frameworks. All this demands a European commitment to concerted, inter- and transdisciplinary research and innovation. The NEW-MINE project trains 15 early-stage researchers (ESRs) in all the aspects of landfill mining, in terms of both technological innovation and multi-criteria assessments for ELFM. The technological innovation follows a value-chain approach, from advanced landfill exploration, mechanical processing, plasma/solar/hybrid thermochemical conversion and upcycling, while the multi-criteria assessment methods allow the ESRs to compare combined resource-recovery/remediation ELFM methods with the “Do-Nothing”, “Classic remediation” and “Classic landfill mining with (co-)incineration” scenarios. By training the ESRs in scientific, technical and a range of soft skills, all based on a collaboration involving EU-leading institutes, they become highly sought-after scientists and engineers for the rapidly emerging ELFM and recycling industries.

Mots clés : circular economy, recycling, raw materials, landfill mining, thermochemical conversion, low carbon building materials, syngas, multi criteria assessment, remediation, exploration

Participants :
- RWTH Aachen University (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 498432.96 €
- Stadler anlagenbau gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 417460.59 €
- Renewi valorisation & quarry (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 250560.0 €
- ScanArc Plasma Technologies (Sweden) (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Cranfield University (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Jm recycling nv (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Padua (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 258061.32 €
- .a.s.a. abfallservice halbenrain gmbh & co nfg kg (Autriche) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Montanuniversität Leoben (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255934.08 €
- Italcementi fabbriche riunite cemento spa (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 258061.32 €
- Bergischer abfallwirtschaftsverband (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 375737.91 €
- University of Antwerp (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 897840.0 €
- Ghent University (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 250560.0 €
- Linköping University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 373517.37 €