Waste2Place

The Waste2Place project aims to create long-term stable landforms to help to deliver mining disturbed land back to nature and people. This will be achieved through innovations that strengthen and expand the emerging Swedish geomorphic design knowledge and practical experience to significantly improve the technology, products, and processes around it. Norm-critical thinking is an important focus of this project and will be actively practiced to drive and improve innovation. The output from Waste2Place will be the creation of a geomorphic reclamation toolkit. The components of the toolkit will include methodologies, databases, web-based geospatial tools and landscape and ecological knowledge. Important monitoring results that quantify the environmental performance of a geomorphic approach will also be delivered. The project outcomes provide the basis for a sustainable method of waste rock management in Sweden that creates long-term stable, non-polluting landforms. Waste2Place is a three-year project involving research institutes, industry partners and specialized consultancies who will come together under six different work packages aiming to build knowledge and practical experience across all phases of the geomorphic process. The combination of consultants, research and industry partners will ensure that the project outcomes will progress beyond the life of the project both within Sweden and internationally. The work is carried out within the strategic innovation program Swedish Mining Innovation, a joint venture by Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency.