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Preceding the ETN NEW-MINE kick-off, a unique event was organised on 6-2-2017 in Houthalen (BE) to initiate a fruitful dialogue between the NEW-MINE ESRs/Supervisors and ‘DE Locals’ group of the Remo landfill site in Houthalen.

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. ...

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 ...

The MCSA ETN NEW-MINE kick-off meeting took place on 6 and 7 February 2017 at Greenville in Houthalen, at a short distance of the REMO landfill site. During the kick-off meeting, the 15 newly recruited Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and their supervisors, together with representatives of the partner organisations, and the project management presented themselves and discussed the start-up of the ...