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4. Promotion of Sustainable Waste Management How does ISWA achieve its mission? ISWA promotes and develops sustainable waste management through the organization of meetings and events, particularly of congresses and conferences. Another important contribution is the effort of its nine Working Groups and the activities of its Scientific and Technical Committee. In order to achieve further progress on sustainable development, ISWA implements task forces and projects. ISWA raises professional standards in the field of sustainable waste management through its International Waste Manager program. Finally, ISWA fosters good communication and publications on sustainable waste management with awards. Furthermore ISWA organizes several Beacon Conferences a year. These Conferences focus on different waste management topics like Biological Treatment, Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill or Recycling and Waste Prevention with 70 to 500 participants attending. Delegates World Congresses (2006 – 2009) 800 700 600 680 697 642 650 The following chapters provide an overview on ISWA’s various activities in the promotion of sustainable waste management emphasizing the year 2009 and the first half of 2010. 4.1. Congresses and Conferences The biggest event ISWA organizes regularly is the ISWA World Congress. The World Congress is a 4 days event held once a year in autumn and usually attracts 600 to 700 participants from 50 to 70 different countries. At each of the last years World Congresses there were between 100 and 180 presentations by renowned international experts. Number of Delegates 500 400 300 200 100 0 World Congress Copenhagen 2006 World Congress Amsterdam 2007 World Congress Singapore 2008 World Congress Lisbon 2009 ISWA events and meetings in 2010 16
From 15 to 18 of November 2010 the City of Hamburg will host this year’s ISWA World Congress on “Urban Development and Sustainability”. The event has been co-organized by the VKS, member of the VKU support association. The last ISWA World Congress took place in Lisbon at the Cultural Centre of Belém from 12 to 15 October 2009 and was co-organized by the Portuguese Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (APESB). The theme of the Congress was „Turning Waste into Ideas“. The World Congress 2008 was held at the Suntec in Singapore. This event was co-organized by the Waste Management and Recycling Association of Singapore (WMRAS) and the National Environment Agency (NEA). The ISWA World Congress 2007 “Challenging the future” was held at the RAI International Exhibition & Congress Centre in Amsterdam. The event was co-organized by ISWA’s Dutch National member NVRD. particular interest was the debate surrounding anaerobic digestion. Finally, a window was opened on the markets for composted products, certification programmes and quality controls. The first ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste Prevention & Recycling took place in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, on the 20th and 21st of May. This Conference has been initiated by the ISWA Working Group for Recycling and Waste Minimization and is instrumental in disseminating new knowledge and developments especially in the areas of Waste Prevention, Sustainable Production and Consumption and Life Cycle Thinking. During the two very intense and interesting conference days 28 highly qualified speakers delivered a well balanced mix of academic and practical sessions to more than 70 attendees from all over the world. Beacon Conferences The series of Beacon Conferences organized by ISWA has been a great success. Perfect examples were the three “Beacons” held in the first half of the year 2010. A total of over 700 delegates attended the three conferences: The ISWA Beacon Conference on Biological Treatment of Waste was held in Perugia, Italy on the 15th and 16th of April and attended by over 100 participants, mainly from Europe. This was the third edition of this Beacon Conference, organized by the Working Group on Biological Waste and the National Member for Italy, ATIA-ISWA ITALIA. Delegates discussed the current state and future prospectives of organic waste treatment. The principal focus of the event regarded how local authorities enact systems for organic waste collection and recovery; while a second focus looked at the current state of technologies available for the treatment of these fractions. Of ISWA Beacon Conference in Buenos Aires At the ISWA Beacon Conference on Sustainable Sanitary Landfills in Buenos Aires from 31st of May to 1st of June there were 523 attendees from 13 Countries. Both the recommendations formulated and the experiences shared by the speakers will form a significant contribution to achieve a big step towards the improvement of waste management in the Latin American region. 17
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