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

William HoglandRene Møller RosendalGintaras DenafasFabio KaczalaMarika HoglandZane Vincevica-gaileTsitsino TurkadzeMait KriipsaluJuris BurlakovsJuris BurlakovsJan StenisValeriy MykhaylenkoVita RudovicaYahya JaniAmit BhatnagarMaris Klavins

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Economics and EconometricsEngineeringCircular economy020209 energy02 engineering and technology010501 environmental sciences01 natural sciencesCivil engineeringEcosystem servicesHuman healthCommodity productionHazardous waste0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringmedia_common.cataloged_instanceRecyclingEuropean unionWaste Management and DisposalEnvironmental planning0105 earth and related environmental sciencesmedia_commonbusiness.industryCircular economyResources recoveryEconomic feasibilityEcosystem revitalisationMiljövetenskapLandfill managementLandfill miningbusinessEnvironmental Sciences

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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. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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2017-08-01Resources, Conservation and Recycling
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.07.007