LIFE+ RECLAIM
Greece
Partners
Enveco, National Technical University of Athens, Helector, Municipality of Polygyros
Contact
Zoi Gaitanarou
Perikleous street 1
15122 Maroussi, Athens
E: zgaitanarou@enveco.gr
T: +30 210 614 13 57
Visit: www.enveco.gr
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The project aims at building a temporary pilot application on productive scale in order to mine parts of an existing landfill, to separate materials and produce concentrates as products, both ferrous and non-ferrous, which can be fed into a metallurgical process. The application will include preprocessing and processing, as well as a beneficiation stage for non-ferrous metals, introducing elements from the mining industry.
The main objective is the recovery of:
- Materials, especially metals
- Space, which equals to extra landfill capacity and lifetime
- Soil, which has been disposed off, a natural resource valuable to local ecosystems as well as to landfill industry itself
- Recyclable materials
- Land, in the case of old landfills, which will lead to a successful rehabilitation scheme with minimal environmental footprint
These objectives of material and/or energy recovery are known today in the waste processing industry and precede disposal, but have not been so far utilized in connection to (a) a wider program of waste post-disposal processing and (b) material beneficiation for valuable metals, by means of ore processing methods.
