WASTE MANAGEMENT

The "Waste Management" unit is dedicated to finding solutions that conform to the objectives of sustainable development in matters of waste management. It is notably involved in:

• optimizing waste management (municipal solid waste and similar products, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), used tyres, industrial waste, etc.),
• characterizing the environmental behaviour of waste (bottom ash, municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash, sludge, etc.) and predicting its impact (emission of pollutants from the waste, migration and fate of pollutants in the soil and groundwater),
• underground waste storage (design of engineered landfills, dimensioning waste facilities, inventory and rehabilitation of former sites, behaviour of containment barriers, biogas management, etc.),
• controlling the impact of waste elimination and processing plants (greenhouse gases, leachates, dioxins, etc.).

The unit's production activity:

• research projects in partnership with industry and cofinanced by different organizations (ADEME, ANR, AFSSET, European Commission, etc.),
• public service missions: technical advices for French laws and regulations, participation in French and European standardization commissions, writing up methodology guides, compiling databases (such as former landfill sites), third-party expertise,
• international projects, notably as regards institutional twinning with East European countries ( Romania , Hungary , Czech Republic , etc.) and for waste management in emerging economy countries (e.g. India ).

• Eldorado - Inventory and Diagnosis for the rehabilitation of municipal solid waste landfills and related sites
  

• Programme for reducing fly-tips in the Hérault Département
  Reference sheet
  

• Misp - Pollution source impact model
  
  

• Awast - Aid in the management and European comparison of municipal solid waste treatment methods for a global and sustainable approach - Projet du Ve Programme Cadre de Recherche et Développement de la Commission européenne
  

• CARMEX - CARbonatation Minérale EX-situ de résidus miniers - Procédé innovant, mécanismes, évaluation de la filière
  

• Cleawast - Evaluation des technologies propres et durables de gestion des déchets
  

• Forwast - Overall mapping of physical flows and stocks of resources to forecast waste quantities in Europe and identify life-cycle environmental stakes of waste prevention and recycling
  

• Holiwast - Holistic assessment of waste management technologies - Research Project of the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme
  

• Hyrisk - Hybrid" treatment of the uncertainty in risk assessment - BRGM project"
  

• Municipal solid waste : tomorrow's materials - BRGM project
  Reference sheet
  

• NOVOSOL- Validation of a sediment stabilization process by phosphation and environmental assessment in road scenarios. BRGM study carried out in partnership with SOLVAY.
  

• ORLA - Optimisation du Recyclage des Laitiers d'Aciéries de conversion
  

• Waste solutions web constructed with the support of the European Commission - See the article in the journal Environnement & technique , 2006, no. 260, p. 41-45
  

Main technical and financial partners in France

• Financial partners: ADEME, ANR, European Commission, French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development, General Councils, AFSSET, SOLVAY, SYCTOM, SITA, TIRU, CREED, IKOS, Bertin-Innovations.
• Technical partners: Cemagref, INSA-Lyon, INERIS, Universities, CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Schools of Mines.

Some examples of foreign activities:

• Poland: adaptation of the Community legislation and practice ( acquis communautaire ) in the environmental field
• Czech republic: aid in the development of a waste management centre
• Hungary: industrial waste management
• Romania: environmental economics / aid in setting up regional waste management plan

• List of participations at events
  

More information may be found on the following events web site:

• WASCON 2009 - Gestion durable des déchets et des matériaux recylclés en Génie Civil organisé par lSCOWA et EEDEMS.
  Lyon, France. 03-05 juin 2009
  

• Rencontres géosynthétiques 09 - 7ème colloque francophone sur les géotextiles, les géomembranes et les produits apparentés
  organisé par le Comité Français des Géosynthétiques.
  Nantes, France. 01-03 avril 2009
  

• SARDINIA 2009
  

• WasteEng-2005
  

The BRGM publications list is available from the BRGM web site.

Most of the publications of the Environment & Processes Division can be found by entering Sols contaminés - Déchets et procédés in the formular.