Monetizing the social benefits of landfill mining: Evidence from a Contingent Valuation survey in a rural area in Greece

Damigos, D.; Menegaki, Maria; Kaliampakos, Dimitris

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2015.12.012

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“…The societal dimension of sustainability is usually assessed through the monetization of environmental impacts, if at all (Damigos et al, 2015;Marella and Raga, 2014;Van Passel et al, 2013;Winterstetter et al, 2018Winterstetter et al, , 2015. Fewer studies tackle societal impacts through nonmonetary assessment (Hermann et al, 2016b;Pastre et al, 2018).…”

Section: Implications For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…High investment and processing costs hinder ELFM implementation, despite environmental gains (Hermann et al, 2016a;Kieckhäfer et al, 2017). Societal factors are rarely considered in ELFM research or generalized to an extent where impacts an effects become entangled, often through monetization, making it difficult to draw conclusions (Damigos et al, 2015;.…”

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Developing Stakeholder Archetypes for Enhanced Landfill Mining

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Understanding the perspectives of different stakeholders on emerging technological concepts is an important step towards their implementation. Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) is one of these emerging concepts. It aims at valorizing past waste streams to higher added values in a sustainable manner. Yet, assessment of ELFM mainly focusses on environmental and private economic issues, and societal impacts are rarely analyzed. This study uses semi-structured interviews to build understanding for different ELFM practitioners and researchers and develops five stakeholder archetypes for ELFM implementation: the Engaged Citizen, the Entrepreneur, the Technology Enthusiast, the Visionary and the Skeptic. The archetypes outline major differences in approaching ELFM implementation. The stakeholder perceptions are put into context with existing literature, and implications for ELFM implementation and future research are discussed. Results show that differences in regulatory changes and technology choices are affected by different stakeholder perspectives and more research is needed to balance inner-and inter-dimensional conflicts of ELFM's sustainability. The developed archetypes can especially be helpful when evaluating social impacts, whose perception often depends on opinion and is difficult to quantify.

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Section: Implications For Future Researchmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Developing Stakeholder Archetypes for Enhanced Landfill Mining

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“…Certainly many LFM projects and studies have not been documented in the literature (Damigos et al 2015). Possibly, the first cases occur when scavengers started to reuse and taking care of the discarded goods of the aristocracy and the wealthy.…”

Section: Research Approaches To Landfill Mining (Lfm) Projectsmentioning

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“…The latest works are performed by the Enhanced Landfill Mining group in the 'Draft Report on science and technology in Landfill Mining' (EURELCO, 2016) and the LIFE+ financial instrument of the European Community in the context of LIFE RECLAIM 'Landfill mining pilot application for recovery of invaluable metals, materials, land and energy' (Damigos et al 2015) wherein the main methodological aspects are described that are necessity prior to and during LFM operations.…”

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

Burlakovs

Kriipsalu

Kļaviņš

et al. 2017

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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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. The recovery of secondary resources plays a significant role. The industrial processes developed for regaining minerals for production of commodities 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 the resources and redistribute them with an accompanying diminishment of hazardous influence of environmental contamination and other threats for human health hidden in former dump sites and landfills. 'Classical LFM' is a useful technology to discover hidden resources and look at the big picture of resources in the local, regional and global perspective. Therefore, this paper considers development of paradigms and attitudes to LFM as the technology for regaining calorific value; the furthering of deposited material valuable to more advanced concepts of enhanced LFM (ELFM); the recovery of landfill space and land value, and, finally, the possibility of full ecosystem services revitalization. The future of our civilisation depends on our wise use of commodities. Thus, waste operations beyond the Zero waste concept must be applied if mankind is to conquer space and the abyssal plains to conduct mining in the deepest oceans on the Earth. Other research areas feasible for LFM in terms of the environmental rehabilitation are given in the review. This compilation summarises the previous, current and future trends of LFM 2 technology regarding the paradigm developments that are influencing the attitude of scientists, industry and society to LFM as a complex tool for implementing the circular economy in practice. This review paper is based on a historical overview of global case studies and explores the methodology of waste management as regards the different tools for geochemical, geophysical and remote sensing that are used for field studies prior to the decisions whether LFM will be successful in an individual case. New technological developments of ELFM for the energy industry is described combined with a review of innovative material production. One chapter is dedicated to the Efficient Use of Resources and Optimal Production Economy (EUROPE) estimation model. The hazardous impacts of landfills, such as greenhouse gas emission and pollutants, are discussed. Throughout history, the major part of the 'LFM economy' has been viewed from a point of view of recovery of natural resources. Therefore, our main philosophy was to provide a historical experience linking with modern ideas of LFM to the increasingly relevant concept of a circular economy. The world is heading towards a restricted access to key resources. However, humanity should not limit itself to frame these restrictions but should also have a profound view on the global economy and life styles for future generations from an environmental and non-material resource standpoint. It is concluded that the big ...

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“…In EU a number of ~150-500.000 active and closed landfill sites contain approx. 30-50 billion m 3 of waste (Damigos et al, 2016), while total prevention of waste production seems to be an utopia for the modern societies. Along with the sustainable exploitation of all available waste in order to prevent environmental pollution and at the same time lower the Green House Gas (GHG) emissions release to the atmosphere, the EU prioritize waste minimization routes as shown in Figure 1.…”

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Case Study of Viability of Bioenergy Production from Landfill Gas (LFG)

Vourdoubas¹,

Skoulou²

2016

JAS

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The landfill gas (LFG) produced from the existing landfill site in Heraklion city, Crete island, Greece, is not currently exploited to its full potential. It could however be exploited for power generation and/or combined heat and power (CHP) production in near future by fully unlocking its energy production potential of the gas generated from the landfill site. This gas (LFG) could feed a 1.6 MW el power plant corresponding to the 0.42% of the annually consumed electricity in Crete. The LFG utilization for power generation and CHP production has been studied, and the economics of three energy production scenarios have been calculated. An initial capital investment of 2.4 to 3.2 M €, with payback times (PBT) of approximately 3.5 to 6 years and Net Present Values (NPV) ranging between 2 to 6 M € have been calculated. These values prove the profitability of the attempt of bioenergy production from the biogas produced from the existing landfill site in Heraklion city, Crete. Based on the current economic situation of the country, any similar initiative could positively contribute to strengthening the economy of local community and as a result the country, offering several other socioeconomic benefits like e.g. waste minimization, creation of new job positions etc. by increasing, at the same time, the Renewable Energy Sources (RES) share in energy production sector etc. Apart from the favorable economics of the proposed waste to energy production scheme, all the additional environmental and social benefits make the attempt of a near future exploitation of the landfill gas produced in Heraklion, an attractive short term alternative for waste to bio-energy production.

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Monetizing the social benefits of landfill mining: Evidence from a Contingent Valuation survey in a rural area in Greece

Cited by 40 publications

References 59 publications

Developing Stakeholder Archetypes for Enhanced Landfill Mining

Developing Stakeholder Archetypes for Enhanced Landfill Mining

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

Case Study of Viability of Bioenergy Production from Landfill Gas (LFG)

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