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Decreasing the environmental impact of waste management: An innovative leachate treatment using recovered membranes. (LIFE RELEACH)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Background The EU’s economy uses 16 tonnes of materials per person per year, of which six tonnes becomes waste, half of it going to landfill. Overall, the EU produces up to three billion tonnes of waste every year, with a huge negative impact on the environment, as well as significant losses of materials. Municipal solid waste (MSW) generation continu ...
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COntributing to Building of Awareness, Learning and Transfer of knowledge on sustainable use of raw materials (COBALT)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The COBALT project will contribute to addressing several key challenges on the route towards more sustainable use of raw materials and resource efficiency. It will focus particularly on extraction, substitution, replacement and recycling of critical and scarce raw materials as well as raw materials with high environmental and social impacts. Through exchange and dialogue, COBALT will contribute to ...
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Innovative Urban Waste Treatment: A Sustainable Approach Using Hydrodynamic and Biological Technologies (URWASTECH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Oct 1, 2014,

Background Selective collection of Urban Solid Waste (USW) is an established practice in several countries; in which organic matter, glass, plastics and paper are managed as separate residues with their own channels of recovery and treatment. Yet, there is still a substantial amount of waste - the ‘rest fraction’ - that is not sorted at source and tha ...
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Concentrated saline rejection treatment: Environmental Technology using a non profitable solid waste as energy source. (RESALTTECH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Background The paper industry generates solid waste and residual effluents that have a significant impact on the environment. It is also the second biggest water consumer in Spain, representing 16.3% of total industrial water consumption. Recycling of water is difficult because of the salinity of the outgoing water effluents, which affect the quality of t ...
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