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Paradigms on landfill mining: From dump site scavenging to ecosystem services revitalization

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  • Burlakovs, Juris
  • Kriipsalu, Mait
  • Klavins, Maris
  • Bhatnagar, Amit
  • Vincevica-Gaile, Zane
  • Stenis, Jan
  • Jani, Yahya
  • Mykhaylenko, Valeriy
  • Denafas, Gintaras
  • Turkadze, Tsitsino
  • Hogland, Marika
  • Rudovica, Vita
  • Kaczala, Fabio
  • Rosendal, Rene Møller
  • Hogland, William

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For the next century to come, one of the biggest challenges is to provide the mankind with relevant and sufficient resources. Recovery of secondary resources plays a significant role. Industrial processes developed to regain minerals for commodity production in a circular economy become ever more important in the European Union and worldwide. Landfill mining (LFM) constitutes an important technological toolset of processes that regain resources and redistribute them with an accompanying reduction of hazardous influence of environmental contamination and other threats for human health hidden in former dump sites and landfills. This review paper is devoted to LFM problems, historical development and driving paradigms of LFM from ‘classical hunting for valuables’ to ‘perspective in ecosystem revitalization’. The main goal is to provide a description of historical experience and link it to more advanced concept of a circular economy. The challenge is to adapt the existing knowledge to make decisions in accordance with both, economic feasibility and ecosystems revitalization aspects.

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  • Burlakovs, Juris & Kriipsalu, Mait & Klavins, Maris & Bhatnagar, Amit & Vincevica-Gaile, Zane & Stenis, Jan & Jani, Yahya & Mykhaylenko, Valeriy & Denafas, Gintaras & Turkadze, Tsitsino & Hogland, Mar, 2017. "Paradigms on landfill mining: From dump site scavenging to ecosystem services revitalization," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 123(C), pages 73-84.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:recore:v:123:y:2017:i:c:p:73-84
    DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.07.007
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