SESSION 1: SOCIAL, POLICY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF ELFM SESSION 2: ELFM AND INDUSTRIAL RESIDUE LANDFILLS SESSION 3: ELFM AND USW LANDFILL SESSION 4: SPATIAL PLANNING AND ELFM SESSION 5: ELFM AND INDUSTRIAL RESIDUE LANDFILLS

On February 6, 2017 the fifth General Assembly of the European Enhanced Landfill Mining Consortium (EURELCO) took place. The General Assembly was attended by 80 participants from 13 EU Member States. Guest speaker for this 5th General Assembly was Belgian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Hilde Vautmans who launched her ambitious ELFM EU Action Plan. Concurrently, the newly initiated EU […]

The first advisory board of RAWFILL was held in Liege (Belgium) on October 23,2017. 30 people from 16 organizations were present, shared best practices on landfill mining and discussed the different aspects of the project. At this moment we are mainly focussing to improve an enhanced inventory framework that will be used to feed a decision support tool […]

SESSION 1: GEOPYSICS, REMEDIATION, PREPROCESSING AND METAL EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELFM SESSION 2: THERMAL VALORISATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELFM

On June 7, 2017 the official kick-off of the RAWFILL project took place in Liège, Belgium. The North-West Europe region has 100.000 landfills. Most of these landfills lack state-of-the-art environmental protection systems, leading to local pollution, land-use restrictions and global impacts. This problem can be transformed into an opportunity as large volumes of resources such as materials and energy can be […]

On the 2nd of October 2018, Leitat and Varta jointly organise a workshop entitled “Beyond Lithium-Ion” that aims to bring high-level experts from research and industry working on post-lithium technologies together. This event will be dedicated to the exchange of knowledge from current running European collaborative projects and industrial development dedicated to post lithium for stationary or electrical mobility. […]

How might we comply with the Circular Economy and still do business in the Construction Materials Industry? Come and find out about KUL’s new sustainable cement nominated to the EIT Awards 2018 at the Faculty Club Leuven (read more). Why you should come? – Find out more about our new eco-friendly cement and its applications […]

Following the 2nd ELFM Seminar in the European Parliament in Brussels on November 20, 2018, the 6th GA meeting of EURELCO is scheduled for November 21, 2018, in Mechelen.

ETN DEMETER CONCLUDING SYMPOSIUM – Rare-earth permanent magnet motors and the e-mobility revolution will be held in Leuven from 5 to 7 of February 2019 in Leuven, Belgium.