Michaël Van Raemdonck

Thanks to years of qualitative landfill management, the De Blankaart landfill now contains a product valuable enough to mine and re-use the site afterwards.

A ward in the municipality of Zaventem suffered from floodings. The problem was solved by turning a local landfill into a buffer basin.

Landfill sites can be seen as a specific kind of brownfields, therefore those redevelopment processes and instruments were customized for landfills in Flanders.

An old landfill was completely ecxavated and processed and replaced by a ward.

Apart from taxation, sensibilizing citizens to sort their waste is an important measure in reducing unwanted waste streams.

The Flemish waste tax system is based on the pay-as-you-throw principle. It is made up out of two taxes: tax on landfilling waste and a tax on combusting waste.

The Cedalion and Orion tool ranks a region's landfills to their potential and afterwards calculates a businesscase for the most promising landfills.