Hi,

general information on landfill mining can be found at www.eurelco.org

This is an European network of experts who are working or researching in the field of landfill mining.

Best regards,

Anja

www.eurelco.org

Thanks for this information, Anja ! I am searching especially for case studies, in the optimal case supported by life cycle assessment and life cycle costing data.

Dear Mrs. Schneider,

could you be a bit more precise as to your question. The slogan "Urban Mining" is very often used in recycling all kinds of waste material from houshold rubbish to residues dumped after smelting. There are some sites where this approach has been taken. 

Best regards

Harald G. Dill

Dear Prof. Dill,

thanks for your response. I refer to recycling of abandoned urban infrastructure (the built environment) with the scope of valorisation of the usable contents (metals, construction and demolition waste, wood). I found just one example for such kind of study:

http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A651628&dswid=-7760

http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:651628/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Best regards,

Petra Schneider

Dear Dr. Schneider,

there was a project aimed at rehabilitation of smelting sites and recovering rare metals from household rubbish, scrap and smelting residues on the abandoned Fe smelter at Maxhütte in Sulzbach-Rosenberg. As far as I know a technology center was set up supoorted to get together engineers from different disciplines. The header for these activities was "urban mining". I am  mainly interested in everything you can extract for a profit from mining residues, whether derived from modern-day or ancient mining. Maybe this could be of help to you. Is this the correct strategy that I have identified or is a piece of advice for a dead-end-road ?

Best regards

Harald Dill

Hi Petra!

Looks as if you've already found our previous work on Norrköping. If you are still interested in the topic, we have a recently submitted case study on Linköping, where we go one step further in the combined analysis of GIS and MFA. Please notify me!

Also, see the link.

//Björn

Ps. Also, I'm very curious in your own work, please distribute! Ds.

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Dear Björn,

thanks for your feedback and information on your new study! And sorry that I answer with delay, I just started officially the new job as professor for international water management at the University for Applied Sciences in Magdeburg and I had a lot of transformation in the last three weeks. My further teaching subjects are flux- and resource management, material flow analysis and ecological planning. As I have 20 years of experience in international consulting and I am certified expert for waste site sanitation I am interested in the subject of urban mining from longer time. For the moment I have not publication in this subject which I could send to you, only the lectures which are in German. At the University for Applied Sciences we want to further develop the subject together with my collegue Gilian Gerke, especially in terms of Life Cycle Assessment for urban mining (both, landfill mining and infrastructural urban mining). It would be very interesting to develop such a project especially with different case studies. At the university we use umberto, but we want to develop also a comparison of different MFA/LCA models and are further interested in special infrastructure material fluxes, especially copper as there exists a study for Vienna. Would you be interested in a collaboration with us ?

Best regards,

Petra

Maybe worth reading in the light of salvaging metals for the electronics industry...

http://eerlijkegeldwijzer.nl/media/60507/cs_electronics_recycling_and_metals_mining_fbg_fig_150109_report.pdf

Great, thanks !

Hello!

there have been some interesting studies about urban mining in Vienna (Kleemann et al.), this group has published a few other articles as well and is also working on valorisation.

Additionally there are some more national-level estimations which might be interesting as well (Wiedenhofer et al. & Haas et al.).

Regards,

Dominik

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