INTERNATIONAL SOLID WASTE ASSOCIATION - Denkstatt

means of implementation established by Agenda 21 of
the United Nations Conference on the Environment
and Development.
Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were:
• Developing a comprehensive definition of Healthcare,
Healthcare Waste and Healthcare Risk Waste
and promote its recognition by all national and
relevant International Organizations.
• Producing by way of meetings, conferences, seminars,
workshops, publications and competence
based education, training and assessment the
means by which the best professional practices of
Healthcare Waste Management can be promulgated
world-wide to match economic circumstances and
stages of social development.
• Co-operation with the World Health Organization:
The Working Group has been engaged for the last
two years in producing the new version of the WHO
publication “The safe management of wastes from
healthcare activities” (Blue Book). The book was
published in 1999 and is now in its final stages of
review prior to being published later this year.
• Next major task will be organizing the promotion
of the WHO Blue Book when it is published and
organizing a Beacon Conference to promulgate
it widely.
and guidelines
• Landfill gas collection and energy recovery
• Greenhouse gases and treatment of methane
emissions from landfills.
Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were:
• Landfill Operations Guidelines translation
into Portuguese and Mandarin
• Update on International Guidelines for
Sustainable Landfill Evaluation
• State of the nation report on Landfilling
• ISWA Beacon Conference on Landfill,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Partnership with M2M (Methane to Markets)
Working Group on Landfill
Chair: Derek Greedy, United Kingdom
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The Working Group on Landfill addresses the planning,
siting, design, construction, operation, closure, and enduse
of landfills. The Working Group’s overall interests
are in the proper closure of open dumps worldwide and
the move towards the construction and operation of
modern, engineered landfills. These interests have led
to providing technical support on the design, construction,
regulation, and management of landfills, for both
industrialised and developing nations. Further aspects
include operations, closure, and end-use concepts, along
with standard practices for ground water monitoring
and testing, leachate management, gas management,
and stormwater management.
A major activity of the Working Group is to conduct
training courses for solid waste managers from
environmentally developing countries. In addition,
the group is working on various reports, training
material and key issue papers which include:
• Closure of open dumps
• Landfill regulation, minimum standards,
Working Group on Legal Issues
Chair: Martin Hassfurther, Austria
The purpose of the Working Group on Legal Issues is to
serve as the principal resource to ISWA on legal issues.
The overall interests for the Working Group are the exchange
of legal aspects on different hot topics in waste
management. Currently there is much focus on waste
trafficking, EU-waste legislation, environmental responsibility
and the legal aspects of different kinds of publicprivate
cooperation.
Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were:
• Share and transfer legal information to all ISWA
members based on knowledge, experience and
research of Working Group members
• Coordinate legal aspects of the activities in the
different ISWA Working Groups
• To take initiatives to develop and increase the
activities of ISWA internationally in making
appropriate legal representation