INTERNATIONAL SOLID WASTE ASSOCIATION - Denkstatt

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.
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