Integrating remediation and resource recovery: On the economic conditions of landfill mining

Waste Management

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 137-147

  Frändegård, Per ^a   Krook, Joakim ^a   Svensson, Niclas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economic potential; Landfill mining; Monte Carlo analysis; Remediation; Resource recovery

Indexed keywords

COGENERATION PLANTS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NATURAL RESOURCES; POLLUTION; POWER GENERATION; RECOVERY; REMEDIATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; LANDFILL MINING; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REMEDIATION PROJECTS; RESOURCE RECOVERY; SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES; STOCHASTIC UNCERTAINTIES;

LAND FILL;

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; LANDFILL; MINING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REMEDIATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMBUSTION; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; INCINERATION; LANDFILL; METAL INDUSTRY; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; WASTE DISPOSAL; ECONOMICS; PROCEDURES; SWEDEN; TAX; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHANDIPURA VIRUS;

MINING; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SWEDEN; TAXES; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84983112854     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.04.008     Document Type: Article

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