Abstract: The invention relates to mineral surface and intermediate sealing systems for waste tips or for the safeguarding of old contaminated sites, using industrial waste substances, and to a method of producing, preparing and installing them, to their use in recultivation layers and to a method of producing them, the industrial waste substances being used as substitute building materials in mineral sealing systems or recultivation layers, preferably while using bentonite-bonded used sands or powders from foundries and/or clarification slurries.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a briquette of waste materials as an aggregate for smelting furnaces of an iron foundry, in particular in cupola furnaces or other shaft furnaces. The object of the invention is to disclose the use of a briquette of waste materials as an aggregate for smelting furnaces of an iron foundry, in that it can be produced in an economical manner, is sufficiently heat-resistant, is present with a similar alloy composition even with fluctuating contents in the starting components and does not result in any additional charge of pollutants into the smelting process.