Landfill mining can be broadly classified into in situ mining and ex situ mining (Jones et al. 2013). The in situ landfill mining involves the resource recovery activities (e.g., recovery of landfill gases and leachate as well as the removal of contaminants from soil and water) on the landfill site without excavation of the stored waste stream.
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Landfill mining (LFM) is a new term for a commonly used approach of excavating landfilled waste in order to utilise the contained resources. The first project documented in the literature dates to the middle of the last century. Since then, major developments in technology, patterns of resource consumption, standards of living, the composition of landfilled waste and …
Landfill mining is the process of excavating and processing waste from landfills to recover valuable materials, such as metals, plastics, and organic matter, while also reducing the volume of waste. This practice aligns with sustainable waste management and circular economy principles by transforming landfill sites into resource recovery operations, enabling the diversion of waste …
The Landfill Mining Austria project (LAMIS) included comprehensive economic and ecological assessment as well as decision-making procedure for landfill owners whether to keep landfills in after-care or to start-up an environmentally sustainable reuse or clean-up (Nispel and Gäth, 2014). There are no universal tools for a comprehensive multi ...
Additional factors that affect mining economics include landfill volume, age of the landfill, topography, access to transportation, access to electricity, equipment needs, climate, local labor costs, planning, governmental approvals and permits, landfill ownership, community acceptance, site preparations, hazardous wastes disposal costs, post ...
Landfill mining permits recovering secondary raw materials from landfills. Whether this purpose is economically feasible, however, is a matter of various aspects. ... of output flows that can be recovered by mining and by mobile on-site processing of the waste based on treatment equipment selected by the landfill operator. Thus, charges for ...
Landfill mining can be traced back to a 1953 project in Israel to find fertilizers for orchards by scooping up soil from decomposed trash. Few other projects were reported until the 1990s when, in an effort to prevent groundwater contamination and other pollution, new regulation in the U.S. required landfill owners to use plastic liners and ...
Landfill mining seems to be a promising concept for managing old landfills and dumpsites in India. However, the feasibility of landfill mining depends on the dumped waste and will change from case to case. Further, the literature available for landfill mining is limited and mainly deals with waste characterization and valorization studies.
Landfill mining has been suggested as a strategy to address such resource and pollution problems and in principle means the excavation, processing, treatment and/or recycling of deposited materials. This study involves a literature review on landfill mining covering an analysis of trends, objectives and research topics in 39 papers published ...
The present research is aimed at assessing the environmental impacts of landfill mining of soil-like material with on-site sorting for land application using life cycle assessment. The scenario is compared with no-landfill mining (base scenario) and future scenario (including material recycling and incineration). Soil-like material is processed using windrow composting. …
Thailand produced 25.70 million tons of municipal solid waste in 2022, and with two-thirds going to landfills, many recoverable resources went unutilized. The re-utilization of landfill waste through landfill mining remains very limited. The lack of procedures to recover potential information and optimize operations constitute major obstacles to promoting landfill …
The results show that, so far, landfill mining has primarily been seen as a way to solve traditional management issues related to landfills such as lack of landfill space and local pollution concerns. Although most initiatives have involved some recovery of deposited resources, mainly cover soil and in some cases waste fuel, recycling efforts ...
Landfill mining projects and mining companies will receive renewable energy credit, ... the cost of landfill mining will continue to decline as the industry gains experience and as new equipment and techniques become available (Vijayaraghavan, 2011). With enough time, landfill mining will become more appealing to local areas facing landfill ...
Dumpsite remediation has become a crucial aspect of sustainable waste management. This study reviews the current state of knowledge on dumpsite remediation, identifying key gaps in the literature. It explores site investigation, characterization of dumpsites, and remediation techniques, with a focus on dumpsite mining and rehabilitation measures. In …
Landfill mining is a solution for managing waste buildup and recovering valuable resources; however, it is essential to conduct initial technical feasibility assessments to ensure the viability of such projects. ... The financial cost for construction and equipment was approximately 1,419,221 USD, while the costs for maintenance, RDF operation ...
Likewise, landfill mining (LFM) activities, including excavation, shredding, screening, and equipment handling, also lead to the release of potentially harmful particulate emissions into the environment (Ilse et al., 2018; Pastre et al., 2018) as short-term episodic emissions during operational periods.
LFM remediates poorly designed landfills, upgrades those failing environmental standards, and uses simple or complex equipment for different levels of material recovery and purity. Main Purpose. Conservation of landfill space; ... Landfill Mining and Reclamation (LFMR) is a process that excavates and processes previously landfilled solid waste ...
Landfill mining is the prominent solution for the recovery of resources from legacy waste. The bio-earth recovered from landfill mining is being utilized for a variety of applications like application as fertilizer. The presence of microplastic in the recovered bio-earth disrupts its usefulness. This study investigated the composition and microplastic pollution in bio-earth …