[en] Dynamic Landfill Mining (DLM) aims at the sustainable integration of landfill resources-materials, energy and land-into the circular economy. The establishment of this concept provides a new incentive to advance the use of geophysical methods as economic tools for landfill characterization. Yet, setting the waste composition as a main target adds some challenges to the more conventional geophysical survey practice on landfills tailored to environmental risk assessment. In this contribution, we give an overview of these challenges and recommend a set of consistent solutions that can be adopted to deal with them in an integrated way. The challenges and presented solutions will be illustrated for two specific DLM cases, for which some preliminary geophysical survey results are included in this extended abstract.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
van de Vijver, Ellen; Ghent University, Belgium
Manrique, Itzel Isunza; University of Liège, Belgium
Bobe, Christin; Ghent University, Belgium ; Universität Osnabrück, Germany
Caterina, David ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Urban and Environmental Engineering
Hermans, Thomas; Ghent University, Belgium
Wille, Eddy; Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM)
Nguyen, Frédéric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Géophysique appliquée
Language :
English
Title :
Geophysics in support of dynamic landfill management: Moving beyond the challenges
Publication date :
01 September 2021
Event name :
First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy Expanded Abstracts
This research has received funding from the European Union's EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under Grant Agreement No 721185, and from the Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) Programme 2017-2020 and the Walloon Government under the RAWFILL project. Both projects have been developed by partners of the European Enhanced Landfill Mining Consortium (EURELCO).This research has received funding from the European Union’s EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under Grant Agreement No 721185, and from the Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) Programme 2017–2020 and the Walloon Government under the RAWFILL project. Both projects have been developed by partners of the European Enhanced Landfill Mining Consortium (EURELCO).
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