Eddy Paul Henri Wille

• OVAM

In 2007, specific Flemish legislation was enacted to deal with brownfields. The main focus was on organizing a streamlined approach to address the variety of issues involved in brownfield redevelopment projects. Currently, almost 160 projects provide a lot of experience. Since 2017, more attention has been paid to spatial quality, sustainability an...

Data management on soil pollution and contaminated sites in the region of Flanders (Belgium) has evolved a lot during the last 3 decades. The introduction of the Soil (Remediation) Act in 1995 and its revisions allowed OVAM to set up a large database. More recently, new initiatives on Brownfield covenants and Dynamic Landfill Management emphasized...

(Enhanced) landfill mining (ELFM) is a sustainable waste management strategy which supports the circular economy and reduces the environmental risks related to landfills. To facilitate and encourage stakeholders to launch (E)LFM-projects, RAWFILL has developed (1) an Enhanced Landfill Inventory Framework (ELIF), (2) an innovative landfill character...

Landfill mining projects open new perspectives in terms of waste management, material and land recovery, reduction of environmental risks, among others. Even if the social and environmental benefits of landfill mining projects have been proved, stakeholders are often reluctant to launch landfill mining projects due to the profitability risks. To as...

The landfill mining is a sustainable waste management supporting the circular economy and reducing the environmental risks related to landfills. The benefits from landfill mining are multiple: from the recovery of materials (e.g., metal, plastic, organic wastes) and land, the development of new economical projects and infrastructure constructions,...

The traditional mining sector uses resource assessments to estimate the mineability of natural resources. The results are communicated to investors, authorities and corporate management boards in a standardized manner, at least on a country level. The recycling sector also requires estimates of recoverable anthropogenic resources. Evidence-based re...

This study aims at showing how the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) can help to classify potential landfill mining projects with different levels of maturity, from exploration to production, under technical, socio-economic and project-planning aspects. Taking the example of three former landfill sites in Flanders general...

In 2011, OVAM started an operational programme on Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) over the period 2011 – 2015. The main goal of this programme was the development of a comprehensive policy dealing with the issue of 2.000 former landfills in the region of Flanders (Belgium). On the 16th of October 2015, the Flemish Government approved the OVAM-memor...

This paper outlines the development of the OVAM policy on brownfield redevelopment since the mid 1990s in Flanders (Belgium). The revitalization of these brownfield sites is based on the experiences OVAM gathered during several years of action in the field of soil remediation. The main purpose of brownfield revitalization is to reclaim contaminate...

Procedure for determining soil contamination in practice in order to demonstrate soil pollution worked out by OVAM Public Waste Agency for the Flemish Region and the Flemish Government (Belgium) decree on soil decontamination is presented.