Legal situation and current practice of waste incineration bottom ash utilisation in Europe

Almost 500 municipal solid waste incineration plants in the EU, Norway and Switzerland generate about 17.6 Mt/a of incinerator bottom ash (IBA). IBA contains minerals and metals. Metals are mostly separated and sold to the scrap market and minerals are either disposed of in landfills or utilised in the construction sector. Since there is no...

Revised hazard classification of MSWI bottom ash

Revised hazard classification of MSWI bottom ash

Assessment of long-term emissions from landfills as part of the landfill aftercare completion procedure

Modern landfills are designed and constructed in a way that emissions can be avoided to a large extent within the operational phase and after closure of the site during the aftercare period. Financial reserves are built up during the operational phase to warrant funds for the aftercare phase. Most aspects of the potential environmental impacts...

Laboratory leaching tests on treated wood according to different harmonised test procedures

Abstract Background: Laboratory leaching tests on treated wood were performed during a European robustness study in the framework of the validation of a tank leaching test procedure that has been proposed for construction products in order to determine the potential release of dangerous substances which can be transferred to soil and groundwater...

Study on methodological aspects regarding limit values for pollutants in aggregates in the context of the possible development of end-of-waste criteria under the EU Waste Framework Directive

The Waste Framework Directive (WFD) 2008/98/EC includes the option to set so-called end-ofwaste (EoW) criteria under which specified waste fractions shall cease to be waste. If these criteria are fulfilled, the material will no longer be classified as a waste but it will instead become a product subject to free trade and use (albeit for specific...

Conditions affecting the applicability of the percolation leaching test in waste management

The European up-flow percolation leaching tests CEN/TS 14405 which has been incorporated into both EU and national regulatory waste management frameworks is carried out on granular waste materials and aggregates under conditions intended to ensure (near) local equilibrium conditions in the test and thus prevent conditionality, optimise...

Hazard property classification of high temperature waste materials

A three-tiered approach to classification of incinerator bottom ash (IBA) from grate furnace installations incinerating non-hazardous waste under the proposed new EU regulations for hazard assessment of waste with reference to the new chemicals legislation has been established and applied to European IBA, based on 95 percentile values of...

A reference database in LeachXSâ„¢ Lite for release of substances from construction products including alternative materials.

The Construction Products Directive (CPD) will in 2013 be replaced by the Construction Products Regulation (CPR), which extends into recycling and end of life aspects. The development of appropriate standards has been taken up by CEN/TC 351, where a horizontal approach to testing is promoted to avoid multiplication of test protocols per sector....

Robustness validation of two harmonized European leaching tests for assessment of the leaching of construction products, including waste-based construction materials

Two leaching tests, a tank leaching test (TS-2) and a percolation test (TS-3), developed by CEN/TC 351 for use in assessing environmental properties in relation to CE marking of construction products, are undergoing robustness validation as part of the standardisation procedure. This paper provides an overview of the activities included in the...

Evaluation of a Horizontal Approach to Assess the Possible Release of Dangerous Substances from Construction Products in Support of Requirements from the Construction Products Directive

This report gives recommendations on the development of horizontal testing procedures for the release or content of dangerous substances from construction products. The target groups of the recommendations are the working groups and task groups of CEN/TC 351 Construction products: assessment of the release of dangerous substances߿ݮ The report...