NWE-REGENERATIS
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Today, a large amount of waste is recycled and recovered. However, the extraction and recovery of raw materials from soils and former metallurgical sites and dumps is still an under-exploited option in favour of simple decontamination or dumping. Metal waste streams (aggregate materials with a high ferrous and non-ferrous metal content, scrap metal, white and black slag, etc.) are regarded as sources of pollution that are too costly to treat. It is therefore important to have valid data on the recovery potential of former metallurgical sites and deposits.
The European project NWE-REGENERATIS (Regeneration of Former Metallurgical Sites and Deposits through Innovative Circularity of Raw Materials) aims to find solutions and tools to clean up former metallurgical sites and deposits in North-Western Europe.
Project budget: €7.10 million
Project duration: 4 years (201-2023)
Project leader: Société Publique d'Aide à la Qualité de l'Environnement (SPAQUE)
The partners of the European project NWE-REGENERATIS
The objectives of the European project NWE-REGENERATIS
- Increase the reuse of raw materials from past metallurgical sites and deposits.
- Evaluate the feasibility and economic potential for raw material recovery and site remediation using innovative Artificial Intelligence Tools.
- Provide knowledge and decision support tools to screen past metallurgical sites and deposits.
- Recover valuable materials.
- Create jobs.
The European NWE-REGENERATIS project has 9 pilot sites, of which 3 are former steelmaking sites (the Teesside site in the UK, the Pompey site in France and the La Louvière site in Belgium), to test its resource recovery tools and techniques.
The NWE-REGENERATIS European project network
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