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Enhanced Sustainable Soils: A Review

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Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics Volume 3 (ICEG 2018)

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Issues associated with the production of waste and their disposal continue to be a major preoccupation for governments, public and private organizations and the general community around the world. This paper includes the current trends on the possible reuse of various waste streams for geotechnical and geo-environmental applications. After a general overview, specific examples will be described and new results on amended recycled sediments and amended soils will be presented. Examples of this sustainable concept to be further promisingly developed include: (1) the possible use of waste heat for the production of new amended raw materials, (2) the reuse of dredged sediments for various geotechnical and geo-environmental applications, (3) the use of various recycled soil amendments for mechanical and hydraulic enhancement techniques.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Geotechnics, Ghent University, Technologiep. 905, 9052, Zwijnaarde, Belgium

    G. Di Emidio & J. Meeusen

  2. SLW Foundations, Waalstraat 230, 9870, Zulte, Belgium

    D. Snoeck

  3. MOW Geotechniek, Technologiepark 905, 9052, Zwijnaarde, Belgium

    R. D. Verastegui Flores

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Correspondence to G. Di Emidio .

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  1. MOE Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Liangtong Zhan

  2. MOE Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Yunmin Chen

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Abdelmalek Bouazza

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Di Emidio, G., Meeusen, J., Snoeck, D., Verastegui Flores, R.D. (2019). Enhanced Sustainable Soils: A Review. In: Zhan, L., Chen, Y., Bouazza, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics Volume 3. ICEG 2018. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2227-3_63

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