RAWFILL Final event - December 10, 2020

The RAWFILL partners are pleased to invite you to the final event of the RAWFILL project that will be held on the 10th December 2020.

With the RAWFILL project we are supporting a new circular economy for raw materials from landfills. As circular economy is one of the main priorities to the EU, the landfill mining is an efficient solution to the transition from traditional waste management to sustainable material management. To implement this circular economy in NW Europe, RAWFILL has developed three tools:

(1) An innovative method to characterize and assess the economic potential of the landfill using geophysics and guided samples;

(2) An enhanced landfill inventory structure (ELIF);

(3) A decision support tool that help to select the most profitable landfill mining projects.

Moreover, as there are no general consistent legislative frameworks and approval procedures for landfill mining in most of the NWE region, RAWFILL team discusses with local authorities and facilitates the knowledge exchange on landfill management and mining at an EU-level in order to tackle the existing barriers.

Please find below the program of the event:

December 10, 2020

RAWFILL virtual conference

8.30 – 9.00 Welcome to the virtual platform

9.00 – 10.30 Session I - RAWFILL tools

• Welcome Speech (Claudia Neculau, SPAQuE, Belgium)

• The contribution of the Rawfill project to the valorisation of landfill resources (Claudia Neculau, SPAQuE, Belgium)

• Landfills : threats and opportunities measured through RAWFILL Enhanced Landfill Inventory Structure (Renaud De Rijdt, ATRASOL, Belgium)

• What is the future of landfills in NWE and how to decide their future use based on Cedalion tool? (Eddy Wille, OVAM, Belgium)

10.30 – 10.45 Questions and Discussion

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 - 11.45 Session II - RAWFILL geophysics and ORION tool

• A workflow for landfill characterization using geophysics and targeted sampling (Arnaud Watlet, British Geological Survey , UK & David Caterina, University of Liège, Belgium)

• High resolution mapping : from resource to reserve, a case study from NWE (Cornelia Inauen, British Geological Survey , UK)

• Orion tool – A road map to start a landfill rehabilitation project (Eddy Wille, OVAM, Belgium)

11.45 - 12.00 Questions and discussions

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 – 14.00 Session III – Landfill mining – past and future

• Welcome speech and presentation of the Interreg NWE program (Mathieu Mori, NWE Programme Director, France)

• 3T's for 3R’s. Transparency. Technology. Trust - the future context in which our circular economy is really working! (Dan Dimitriescu, End of Waste Foundation, USA)

• Landfill Mining: tailoring the best possible solution based on project drivers and goals (Yves Tielemans, Group Machiels, Belgium)

• Mining waste recycling : towards a combined metal recovery and sanitation approach (Lieven Machiels, KU Leuven, Belgium)

• Onoz site, Belgium – rehabilitation after LFM activities (Students from DA SMAP, Junia ISA, France)

14.00 – 14.15 Questions and Discussions

14.15 – 15.30 Session IV – Multi-criteria tools and decision-making

• Applying the Brownfield Opportunity Matrix to landfills (Paul Bardos, r3 environmental technology Ltd, UK)

• Multi-criteria assessment for landfill mining concepts and technologies (Giovanna Sauve, KU Leuven, Belgium)

• How to develop a business case for a landfill mining project? – presentation of the ONTOL tool (Eddy Wille, OVAM, Belgium and Johann Fellner, TU Vienna, Austria)

• Upcycling of plastics recovered from ELFM through pyrolysis (Stuart Wagland, Cranfield University, UK)

• Development of an open source GIS application for fluvial and rail transport in Wallonia – collaboration between the RAWFILL project and Logistics in Wallonia (Luc Genot, Logistics in Wallonia, Belgium)

15.30 – 16.00 Questions and Discussion

16.00 – 16.15 Break

16.15 – 17.30 Session V – Landfill mining success stories

• Landfill Reclamation driven by Land Use Change in the UK – A Contractor’s Experience (Duncan Scott, Vertase Fli, UK)

• Landfill mining intervention on Municipal Solid waste site in Italy (Giovanni Perillo, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy)

• Towards a Green New Deal for landfill mining in Wallonia (Claudia Neculau, SPAQuE, Belgium)

• Réhabilitation de l’ancienne décharge de Bordes : approche par le génie écologique (Lilian Marchand, SUEZ, France – tbc) – the presentation will be given exclusively in French

17.30 – 18.00 Questions and closing discussions

18.00 - 18.15 Closing speech & Virtual drink

Please note that the event will be held in English.

The site visit planned on December 11th is reported for Spring 2021.

Registrations:

The RAWFILL final event is entirely free of charge but registration is mandatory.

Please register before the 9th of December 2020.

For more information about the RAWFILL and the events, contact: rawfill@spaque.be.

We look forward to seeing you at the RAWFILL final conference.