Workshop "Technologies and data for material recovery from waste incineration residues in Europe"
Working Group 3General problem statement
Public and private stakeholders in Europe are increasingly interested in the strategic use of anthropogenic resources (i.e. waste) to produce secondary raw materials by implementing a secondary raw materials inventory. Even though numerous groupsin Europe collect data on the quantity and quality of anthropogenic resources, their activities are very often isolated.
Objective of Working Group 3 in MINEA
In order to structure and group these activities, we propose to 1) design a framework where the activities on producing secondary raw materials from wastes can be integrated in, and 2) to built-up a network of competent institutions that can provide and update the information required within a secondary raw materials inventory. The Working Group A3 of the MINEA project aims to meet these objectives by taking the case study of the anthropogenic resource “solid residues from waste incineration processes”. The residues covered are slags and ashes from waste incineration fed with different fuels (MSW, RDF, sludge). In the first year of this COST Action, it is intended that first the foundation for the network is built-up, and second an overview on available data regarding secondary raw materials in waste incineration residues, including data gaps, is provided. The latter is only possible by reviewing technologies to produce these different secondary raw materials, which is the third activity.
Workshop topics
1)Overview on waste incineration in Europe
2)Country reports on quantities and qualities of waste incineration residues generated in Europe
3)Example for monitoring waste incineration residues
4)Review of technologies to produce secondary raw materials (minerals for construction materials, fertilizer, metals) from waste incineration residues considering anthropogenic resource and secondary raw material quality