#Waste and recycling

Do you want to recover certain low-grade metals from mining or electronic waste? BRGM offers you its innovative bioleaching solutions, based on 30 years of experience.

In France, almost 9,000 sites are contaminated by heavy metals, such as lead, copper and chromium, as well as by hydrocarbons and organochlorine compounds, which include pesticides and solvents. Decontaminating them is a major challenge for our environment. This is the objective of the experimental PRIME platforms, installed at the BRGM site in Orléans.

Do you wish to easily use data produced or disseminated by BRGM? You can tailor these data to meet the needs of web developers, consultancy firms, public services, companies and other re-users by developing customised APIs.

As a public or private stakeholder involved in reclaiming wasteland and managing excavated soil in potentially polluted areas, improve your knowledge of urban soil quality with the support of BRGM using urban soil geochemical background values.

BRGM makes various kinds of geoscientific data available to the general public in different formats through its web portals. It also provides its public and private partners with standard or tailor-made training courses to help them exploit the data to the full.

As part of building a more “circular economy”, BRGM can help you design and develop innovative solutions for the extraction and use of primary and secondary mineral resources.

BRGM is offering its support to project developers by providing tailored solutions for controlled rainwater infiltration beneath former industrial sites and contaminated wasteland to prevent groundwater degradation.

BRGM helps you rank the vulnerability of the environment around your industrial assets in order to control the risks to surface and ground water in the event of a spill of hazardous products.

BRGM can help you choose, implement and monitor nature-based solutions for the sustainable management and redevelopment of your wasteland sites where polluting activities have taken place.

The subsurface is a vital resource for human activities. Sustainable resource management requires in-depth knowledge of this environment, which can be acquired directly (through field surveys, drilling, chemical and mineralogical characterisation, etc.) and/or indirectly through subsurface imaging methods such as airborne geophysical surveys.

Are you a landscape developer or a community wanting to restore your site or region? BRGM experts can estimate the level of deterioration of your ground and offer suitable solutions to regenerate the ecological services it can provide, while taking into account circular economy principles.

Are you interested in developing the reuse of mineral waste from construction sites for your spatial planning projects, but would like to know more about the impact of such practices on groundwater? BRGM has the modelling tools required to answer such questions.