Landfills have historically been seen as the ultimate solution for storing waste at minimum
cost. It is now a well-known fact that such deposits have related implications such as long …

This study reviews the articles in a special volume of Journal of Cleaner Production on
urban mining and landfill mining, identifying what is seen as relevant for exploring the …

Stocks of finite resources in the technosphere continue to grow due to human activity, at the
expense of decreasing in-ground deposits. Human activity, in other words, is changing the …

The newest addition to the Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering series from CRC
Press, Biofuels and Bioenergy: Processes and Technologies provides a succinct but in …

ABSTRACT A modern landfill is an engineered method for depositing waste in specially
constructed and protected cells on the land surface or in excavations into the land surface …

Several landfill mining (LFM) studies have been carried out in recent years all around the
world. From these studies qualitative and quantitative information regarding the composition …

This paper describes an environmental and economic assessment of plasma gasification,
one of the viable candidates for the valorisation of refuse derived fuel from Enhanced …

This paper provides an economic assessment of alternative processes for landfill mining
compared to landfill aftercare with the goal of assisting landfill operators with the decision to …

The novel concepts of Enhanced Waste Management (EWM) and Enhanced Landfill Mining
(ELFM) intend to place landfilling of waste in a sustainable context. 1, 2 In the ELFM vision, a …

Europe has somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000 landfill sites, with an estimat-ed 90%
of them being “non-sanitary” landfills, predating the EU Landfill Directive of 1999/31/EC …