In order to announce these two new projects (ETN NEW-MINE coordinated by SIM² KU Leuven & Interreg Europe COCOON) a widely attended press conference was held in Greenville, Houthalen, the location where also the flagship Closing the Circle project is situated. Several tv-reports were developed including two on VRT-DeRedactie.be and TV Limburg. After the press conference the EURELCO General Assembly ...

On 7-2-2017 the EU MSCA-ETN NEW-MINE project kicked off in Houthalen (BE) in conjunction with the 5th EURELCO General Assembly, where Hilde Vautmans, Belgian Member of the European Parliament (MEP), launched an EU Action Plan.

On February 6-8, 2017 two new EU projects on Enhanced Landfill Mining formally kicked off. In order to announce these two new projects (ETN NEW-MINE coordinated by SIM² KU Leuven & Interreg Europe COCOON) a widely attended press conference was held in Greenville, Houthalen, the location where also the flagship Closing the Circle project is situated. Several tv-reports were developed ...

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Nils Johansson (Linköping University) recently published his milestone PhD text on the institutional challenges for ELFM, based on a multitude of interviews with all relevant stakeholders. A must read for ELFM professionals.

The current paper reviews the concept of the production of high-added value construction materials produced as part of a zero waste enhanced landfill mining process. The calorific fraction of the excavated waste is concentrated to produce a solid recovered fuel, which is introduced to a gasification/vitrification process to be converted to a synthetic gas, a slag and a metal alloy. ...

… is an open, quadruple helix network that supports the required innovation with respect to ELFM within the context of a transition to a resource efficient, circular, low-carbon economy. Currently, EURELCO has 58 organisations from 13 EU Member States as members. EURELCO is a network that: maps and shares information on the current level and future potential of Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) projects ...

SIM² KU Leuven is delighted to announce that its SBO project “SMART” has been formally approved by SIM & VLAIO. SMART stands for Sustainable Metal Extraction from Tailings SMART is a strategic basic research project within the long-term SIM MaRes programme on “Materials from Solid and Liquid Industrial Process Residues”. The SMART project, which was developed together with SIM KU ...

182 applications received for NEW-MINE –  30 candidates preselected on 10 August 2016 – 15 ESRs selected at Recruitment Event (6 September 2016)