Tailings and Industrial Wastes

What's the commonality between the can of your fizzy drink and the airplane you fly in?

Did you know per each tonne aluminium we need to mine about eight tonnes of bauxite, while generating three-four tonnes of by-products (tailings) !?

It comes as no surprise that most of the anthropogenic activities generate some form of waste.

"How do we play our role as Geotechnical Engineers in waste management?" is the challenge we have embarked upon.

At phyGEO lab, we research solutions for effective management of mining and industrial/hazardous wastes. There's no-one-size-fits all solution, but the common route that can be taken to reach at a potential solution traverse through three milestones - characterisation, valorisation and monitoring.