Waste as Resources: Innovative technologies for recycling and recovery

Organized by: Ecomondo STC & Italian Chemical Society – Division Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry, ATIA – ISWA

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ambitious goals of the new Circular Economy Action Plan, as well as the strategic importance for Europe to limit its dependence from other world regions, in terms of material and energy resources, require the implementation of innovative recycling and recovery processes. This seminar is aimed at presenting technological innovations, which can improve the efficiency of secondary material valorization, increasing the circularity of materials and decreasing energy consumption. The presented activities could be related to different sectors (urban or industrial waste, residues, by-produSTC) and various categories of materials (plastics, metals, WEEE, textiles, building and construction, food, etc.)

Session Chairs

Mauro Majone, STC Ecomondo, Università “La Sapienza” Roma
Fabrizio Passarini, STC Ecomondo, Università di Bologna
Marco Ricci, ISWA International

Programme

9.30-9.45 Introduction by the Chairs and a short summary on the papers presented through posters

9.45-10.30 Invited lectures

9.45-10.00 The new Global Waste Management Outlook report released by UNEP/ISWA
Marco Ricci, ISWA International Netherlands

10.00-10.15 CIRCULAR BIOCARBON: a BBI-JU first-of-a-kind flagship biorefinery designed to valorise the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) and Sewage Sludge (SS) into value-added produSTC
Natalia Alfaro Borjabad, URBASER, Spain (TBC)

10.15-10.30 Med4Waste Project: Mediterranean Dialogue for Waste Management Governance
Lara Panzani, Project coordinator and Responsabile Area Balcani, COSPE Onlus (Italy)

10.30-13.00 Presentations selected from the call for papers

13.00-14.00 Break

14.00-17.15 Presentations selected from the call for papers

17.15-17.30 Discussion and Closure by the Chairs