Landfill mining: Resource potential of Austrian landfills--Evaluation and quality assessment of recovered municipal solid waste by chemical analyses

Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Tanja WolfsbergerR Pomberger

Abstract

Since the need for raw materials in countries undergoing industrialisation (like China) is rising, the availability of metal and fossil fuel energy resources (like ores or coal) has changed in recent years. Landfill sites can contain considerable amounts of recyclables and energy-recoverable materials, therefore, landfill mining is an option for exploiting dumped secondary raw materials, saving primary sources. For the purposes of this article, two sanitary landfill sites have been chosen for obtaining actual data to determine the resource potential of Austrian landfills. To evaluate how pretreating waste before disposal affects the resource potential of landfills, the first landfill site has been selected because it has received untreated waste, whereas mechanically-biologically treated waste was dumped in the second. The scope of this investigation comprised: (1) waste characterisation by sorting analyses of recovered waste; and (2) chemical analyses of specific waste fractions for quality assessment regarding potential energy recovery by using it as solid recovered fuels. The content of eight heavy metals and the net calorific values were determined for the chemical characterisation tests.

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Feb 10, 2016·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Tanja WolfsbergerRoland Pomberger
Sep 29, 2017·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Fabio KaczalaWilliam Hogland
Oct 16, 2016·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Yahya JaniAnders Kihl
Oct 17, 2020·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Ayush Singh, Munish Kumar Chandel

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