Institutional Challenges for Landfill Mining in EU
2021
Aleksić, Danijela | Nešić, Danica | Đokić, Anđelka | Nešić, Luka | Nešić, Bratimir
Landfill mining is a term to describe the emerging field of exploring and extracting disposed material. The research in the field has mainly focused on technical evaluations of sorting efficiency, economic feasibility, and resource and environmental potential. Other issues of concern to institutions, markets, policy and conflict of interest have received considerably less attention. The overall idea of this paper is to examine the institutional conditions for the implementation and emergence of landfill mining. The result shows that current policy makes it difficult for landfill mining operators to find a market outlet for the exhumed material, which means that landfill mining may result in a waste disposal problem. Regulations also restrict accessibility to the material in landfills. Therefore, it has generally been municipal landfill owners that perform landfill mining operations, which directs learning processes towards solving landfill problems rather than resource recovery. Landfill mining is not, however, necessarily to be perceived as a recycling activity. It could also be understood as a remediation or mining activity. This would result in more favorable institutional conditions for landfill mining in terms of better access to the market and the material in the landfill.
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Publisher Ecological Movement of Novi Sad, Novi Sad (Serbia)
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