Biowaste: XXVIII Conference on Composting and Anaerobic Digestion. Plenary session

The plenary session will address the current state and future prospects of organic waste collection and recycling in Europe and Italy. Specific attention will be devoted to assessing the characteristics, benefits and impacts of organic waste management: from the quality of collected organic waste streams, based on the surveys continuously carried out by CIC throughout Italy, to the performance of the treatment system and the valorisation of final products. The latter will also be explored through the presentation of the Agreement for compost valorisation and the promotion of its use.

Program

10.00 Opening session 
Gianpaolo Vallardi, President of CIC

10.10 State of the art of the Italian Bio-waste sector compared to the European scenario 
Andrea Lanz, ISPRA

10.30 The evolution of European legislation in the sector 
Aline Granjard, policy officer ECN

10.50 The CIC Compost Quality Label evolves: with Valoritalia towards a new quality management system
Massimo Centemero, CIC Managing Director

11.10 Round table “Quality that creates value: organic waste, efficient recycling and product valorisation”
Moderated by Giorgio Ghiringhelli (ARS Ambiente), featuring the presentation of the Agreement on compost valorisation, signed by CIC together with MASE, Coldiretti, Confagricoltura, CIA, CONAI and Biorepack. Utilitalia, Assoambiente and Legambiente have also been invited to take part in the discussion.

12.30 Selected contributions from Call for Papers
Biotechnological and engineering approaches to optimize the production of biomethane and compost from end-of-life bioplastics
Lorenzo Favaro, Department of Agronomy, Animal Science, Food Science, Natural Resources and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua.

Compost in Agriculture: Evaluating Carbon Farming in Tuscany through Life Cycle Assessment
F. Pasciucco, et al., Department of Energy, Systems, Land Use, and Construction Engineering, University of Pisa

13.00 Closure