| Title |
Role and Design of Sustainable Landfilling as Final Sink in Circular Economy Cycle |
| ID_Doc |
28462 |
| Authors |
Cossu, R; Grossule, V; Lavagnolo, MC |
| Title |
Role and Design of Sustainable Landfilling as Final Sink in Circular Economy Cycle |
| Year |
2022 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
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| Abstract |
With the establishment of the concept of Circular Economy (CE) as new driving principle in waste management, measures intended to support the whole cycle have been introduced in several national regulations in Europe and in different other counties.. What in general is completely missing is the role of landfilling as a final sink for the residual waste and for the associated contaminants. In line with the concept of Back to Earth Alternatives (BEA), closing the loop in circular economy has to be achieved by returning back to the soil the residues, taking care that potential polluting elements are in a non-mobile form, as they were in the fossile resources when they were mobilised for the production of goods. The sustainable landfill has the ambitious goal to implement the BEA concept in a time frame of less than one generation, adopting all measures (before and after waste disposal) required in order to guarantee waste stability and immobilisation of contaminants. By achieving a Final Storage Quality (FSQ) in equilibrium with the environment, active control is no longer required. The combination of both pretreatment and in situ treatment should be properly designed in view of the sustainable landfilling. In the paper, the role of sustainable landfilling in CE is discussed and the design criteria for achieving the Final Storage Quality are |
| Author Keywords |
Final storage quality; waste pretreatment; back to earth alternativies; closing the loop |
| Index Keywords |
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| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) |
| EID |
WOS:001248725000022 |
| WoS Category |
Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences |
| Research Area |
Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
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