2024 will be a year of great events:
In May (15th to 17th), the seventh Symposium on Urban Mining and Circular Economy (SUM 2024, www.sumsymposium.it) will be held in Capri, Italy. Moreover, the 10th VENICE symposium on energy from biomass and waste (www.venicesymposium.it) will be organized during the third week of November in 2024.

Continously updated information on these events and all other activities will be available on our website.

The International Waste Working Group (IWWG) proudly presents the third call for the IWWG-award “Waste-Visions 2100“!

Early career researchers and scientists developing groundbreaking ideas and innovative solutions for big challenges in waste management are welcome to apply for this grant! The grant includes free IWWG membership for one year, free entrance to the Sardinia Symposium 2023, support of travel costs to the conference (300 for Europeans, 700 outside Europe).

The winner of the award is invited to orally present his/her thesis/idea at the Sardinia Symposium 2023 in a 10-min time slot during the opening session or closing session. Moreover, a poster highlighting the vision/groundbreaking idea prepared by the winner will be exhibited during the entire conference.

Please submit the requested documents (see under the link below) not later than 26th May 2023, 12.00 pm, to info@iwwg.eu!

The winner will be selected by a jury consisting of members of the IWWG-Managing Board, and will be informed at the end of July 2023 about the further procedure.

For more information click here.

The International Waste Working Group (IWWG) is organizing a series of monthly online keynote lectures on hot topics of waste management; for IWWG members and all others interested in these hot topics.

Selected, highly respected and acclaimed experts will present the current status on their field of expertise; people who have been at the first line, with different backgrounds and positions, have valuable knowledge and experience that it is really worth sharing and spreading, providing food for brain.

The lectures are scheduled monthly and will last 1 hour, including time for questions and discussion.

Interested? Click here for an overview on the upcoming lectures. To access past lectures click here.

For more and detailed information please contact the IWWG secretariat (info(at)iwwg(dot)eu)

IWWG President, Evangelos Gidarakos, Emeritus Professor of the Technical University of Crete, participated as a speaker at the 2021 P4G Seoul Summit on Green Growth and Global Targets 2030, under the auspices of the Korean Ministry of the Environment, in the section entitled "Measures of a circular economy towards a zero waste society", on 31.05. 2021.

P4G is a global initiative launched in 2017 to manage the great challenges humanity faces and in particular climate change and movement towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. P4G explores, cultivates and supports innovative business collaboration models, governments and societies in the areas of sustainable development, water and waste management, energy, sustainability and responsible consumption and production.

The specific thematic unit of the Ministry of Environment on "Measures of circular economy towards a zero waste society" will present innovative actions carried out in various countries and sectors, concerning circular economy, with special emphasis on the production of zero waste. Innovative models that play a critical role in a sustainable circular economy will be presented during the session. Presentations and discussion with government, industry and society representatives will contribute to the development of strategies to achieve a "zero-waste future" in the context of climate change by 2050.

For the agenda of the Summit [click here].

We are glad to inform you of the new initiative organised and promoted by the IWWG: the Sardinia Academy on Waste Management.

The academy consist of a series of weekly webinars devoted to different WM topics (e.g. Basics of Sustainable landfilling, Leachate treatment, HELP Model, Landfill Mining, Landfill gas modelling, Composting design, Anaerobic Digestion, In situ aeration, Thermal treatment, WEEE management,  etc.).
These webinars will be held by leading international experts, sharing their first-class knowledge and addressing topics of widespread interest. The courses are suited to beginners and to anyone interested in deepening knowledge on fundamental WM topics which will be extensively discussed also during the forthcoming SARDINIA symposium.

The webinars will be scheduled every Thursday morning and will last 3 hours, including ample time for questions and discussion.

Interested?

The Programme of webinars will be available soon.

For more and detailed information please contact the IWWG secretariat (info@iwwg.eu)

We are living in difficult and hard times. In so many countries social contacts have been restricted to a minimum due to the pandemic crisis caused by COVID-19. Schools and universities have been closed down and many of us are working in home office at present. In these times it is worth to remind that we are not alone. By this series of short communications, written by IWWG Board or SAP members, a personal point of view as well as latest news and data is provided. By this means we may get an impression about life in different parts of the world under the impact of the pandemic crisis.

Vol.-I, by Prof. Pinjing He, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (22.03.2020)

Vol.-II, by Prof. Evangelos Gidarakos and Dr. Maria Aivalioti, Technical University of Crete, Greece (28.03.2020)

Vol.-III, by Anna Tsybina, Administrator of the IWWG Regional Branch for Russia and NIS (02.04.2020)

Vol.-IV, by Maria Cristina Lavagnolo and Alberto Pivato, DICEA-University of Padova, Italy (03.04.2020)

Vol.-V, by Jan Slavik, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Czech Republic (14.04.2020)

Vol.-VI, compiled by Dr Robert Gregory, Gregory Environmental Consulting Ltd., UK (14.04.2020)

Vol.-VII, by Prof. Rainer Stegmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany (20.04.2020)

Vol.-VIII, by Howard Robinson, Phoenix Engineering, United Kingdom (28.04.2020)

Vol.-IX, by Alexandre R. Cabral, Sherbrooke University, Canada (05.05.2020)

Vol.-X, by Giulliana Mondelli, Federal University of ABC, Santo André-SP, Brazil (30.04.2020)

Vol.-XI, IWWG activities in 2021 (21.05.2021)

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 IWWG Award ‘Waste Vision 2100’. This has been granted to Dr. Vasiliki Savvilotidou, a principal research engineer at the Laboratory of Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Dr. Savvilotidou has 7-years laboratory experience in innovative recycling of electrical and electronic equipment and received her Ph.D. for the research on the ‘Development of recycling techniques in 1st and 2nd generation waste photovoltaic panels’ in 2019.

With her thesis she developed groundbreaking ideas and innovative solutions in the very complex and emerging topic of management of photovoltaic waste. In particular, she investigated approaches for the recovery of bulk and critical raw materials as well as reuse options of glass and plastic in the construction sector. By her thesis she could demonstrate that metal, glass and plastic parts consisting more than 90% of P/V panels can be reused, recovered or recycled towards an integrated sustainable management of waste P/V panels, indicating potential future applications.