Operative instruments to support public authorities and industries for the supply of raw materials: A decision support tool to evaluate the sustainable exploitation of extractive waste facilities

Susanna Mancini, Marco Casale, Piercarlo Rossi, Alessandra Faraudello and Giovanna Antonella Dino

Resources Policy, 2023, vol. 81, issue C

Abstract: The need to guarantee access to raw materials (RM) has stimulated EU policies to find alternative and integrative sources to exploit. RM can be recovered from anthropogenic deposits and from productive cycles, applying respectively landfill mining and circular economy approaches. In order to assess, quickly, whether extractive waste facilities prove to be sufficiently rich to become potentially exploitable, the use of a Decision Support Tool (DST) is presented here. This tool investigates waste facilities both with quantitative (technical and economic) and qualitative (social and environmental) data. The outputs of the DST are represented by several possible scenarios, useful to decide if and how to approach extractive waste exploitation. After working on the structure of the DST, the produced support instrument has been tested and validated using data and processing flow chart of 3 real case studies: the one of Gorno (Zn–Pb) mining site is presented here.

Keywords: Decision support tool; Extractive waste facility; Critical raw materials; Secondary raw materials; Sustainable mining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103338

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