Research Focus Areas 

🔍 Assessing Legacy Waste Quantity– Quantifying waste accumulation in old dumpsites.

🧪 Legacy Waste Composition Analysis – Identifying and evaluating legacy waste fractions.

🛠️ Characterization of Soil-Like Material (SLM) & Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) – Understanding physicochemical properties for potential applications.

📊 Landfill Mining Feasibility Studies – Evaluating sustainability through Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment.

♻️ Sustainable Utilization of Recovered Materials – Developing eco-friendly applications for landfill-mined fractions. 

Major Challenges

Disposal of Soil-Like Material (SLM) and Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF)

Solution: 

Producing paver blocks from Soil-Like Material (SLM) obtained from landfill mining is an innovative solution for eco-friendly infrastructure

Key Features:

• Binding the heavy metals in the SLM with cementitious material will help to prevent leachability.

• Transforming the mined fraction into locally available products will make the city smarter and sustainable.

• Further, the prototype can be extended by blending the SLM and RDF to fabricate paver blocks to optimize their strength and leachability properties.

Benefits:

• The adverse effect of leachate intrusion from the unscientific disposal of SLM in low-lying can be avoided.

• The demand for fine aggregate in construction materials will also be reduced by utilizing landfill-mined fractions as a substitute.

Tesing of SLiM Block - IS 15658:2006 Compliance

SDGs Addressed