Jones Namur circular_economy_18_9_2015_shortened

The circular economy as a

business opportunity: from urban to landfill mining

Dr. Ir. Peter Tom Jones (IOF Research Manager KU

Leuven, SIM² & President i-Cleantech Vlaanderen vzw)

NAMUR, 18/9/2015

Climate change, the mother of all problems

First the bad news: About the linear economy and

the vulnerable position of EU-28

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Raw material supply faces major challenges:

“Europe, the poorest continent in the world”



ore quality continuously declining (EC, 2014)



incrasing complexity of products


Wih more and more critical metals

challenges for recycling


Critical metals


Critical metals – essential for the transition to

a low-carbon economy


But… End-of-Life recycling rates for critical

metals are poor (UNEP, 2011)


Luckily… Belgian companies can lead in the

field of recycling of/and (semi-) critical metals

Just to name some:



The transition from a linear

to a circular economy


Transition to sustainable materials

management & the circular economy


The advantages of the circular economy (McKinsey, 2015)


However… there is a long way to go… cf.

MSW in the world



Recycling, urban and

landfill mining: 1. End-of-Life products

2. Enhanced Landfill Mining

3. Secondary resources


1. EoL Products: Efficient recycling/urban

mining requires holistic approach

collectie ontmanteling scheiding voor-

behandelen eind-

verwerking recyclaat

voorverwerking eindverwerking


Closing the loop for rare earth metals: flagship

topic at SIM² KU Leuven

H2020

REMAGHIC

H2020

METGROW+


Example: Selectieve recuperation of Eu and Y from

End-of-Life CFLs (using ionometallurgy)

D. Dupont and K. Binnemans, Green Chemistry 17, 856–868 (2015) + front cover


2. Enhanced Landfill Mining, a vision

• 150,000 - 500,000 landfills in Europe

o From MSW, mixed to industrial landfills

o From waste dumps to state-of-the-art landfills

• Do-nothing scenario is not an option

o Remediation costs for the EU-28 are projected to be 0.1-1 trillion

euro in the next 5 decades


ELFM in Europe

• 150,000 - 500,000 landfills in Europe

o From MSW, mixed to industrial landfills

o From waste dumps to state-of-the-art landfills

• Do-nothing scenario is not an option

o Remediation costs for the EU-28 are projected to be 0,1-1 trillion

euro in the next 5 decades

• ELFM targets the recovery of resources (materials, energy

and land) and preserves drinking water quality

• Prioritisation is required: remediation need, content,

location and size are key parameters


Classic

LFM

Enhanced

LFM


Pilot project in Flanders: Houthalen-Helchteren,

Group Machiels

Total research performed

since 2008 > 9 MEURO

(incl. IWT O&O ELFM,

EFRO CTC, MIP ICON

PLASMAT)


CTC flow sheet, incl. GasPlasma technology

Waste in,

bio-H2 and

alternative

binders out


Pilot project in Wallonia: MINERVE (Mont-Saint-

Guibert landfill)


European Enhanced Landfill Mining Consortium:

50 partners, 12 EU Member States

20-10-2015:

ELFM Seminar in the European Parliament !

More information: www.eurelco.org


http://www.eurelco.org/

3. Industrial process residues:

SIM MaRes Programme (Flemish level)

• Flanders has no primary ores containing critical metals

• BUT… Flanders has large volumes of secondary

(industrial) proces residues: phosphogypsum, goethite,

metallurgical slags, ashes…


MaRes Rationale: metals and minerals from

residues

MaRes aims at

creating and

demonstrating an

operational, flexible

toolbox combining

pyro-, hydro-, electro-

, bio-, solvo- and

ionometallurgy

technologies to

recover metals and

to engineer and

valorise the residual

matrix into highly

innovative low-carbon

building materials and

other mineral

materials.


SIM ICON SUPERMEX project


Valorising CM containing sludges (Nyrstar) and

slags (Umicore) with mineral valorisation into

geopolymers (CRH) (KU Leuven)

MaRes Roadmap Flanders: binders from

secondary resources (case: MetalloChimique)

IWT O&O COZIRAS (MetalloChimique

& KU Leuven) 36 M€ investment in

new fumer to clean fayalite slag new

binders



Flemish & Wallonian

collaboration the EIT Raw

Materials: a world to win!


Co-location centre

“West” in Leuven

Belgian core partners:

1. Sustainable Mining

Use

Natural resources

Historic wastes

(tailings, landfills)

Product

manufacture

4. Substitution from

industrial

minerals

from

concentrates

& ores

Raw Materials Production

New

scrap End-of-

Life

3. Recycling

Technologies

2. Materials Management

Circular economy and Flemish-Wallonian

participation in EIT KIC Raw Materials

An invitation to Belgian companies, universities and other actors to

valorise our unique expertise


Thank you for your attention!


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