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ISWA REPORT<br />
2011<br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>SOLID</strong> <strong>WASTE</strong> <strong>ASSOCIATION</strong><br />
Promoting sustainable waste management worldwide
ISWA Report 2011<br />
Acknowledgments<br />
Editor and responsible for the content: ISWA General Secretariat.<br />
Contributing authors: ISWA President Jeff Cooper provided valuable input and comments. Thanks go also to<br />
the Chair of the ISWA Scientific and Technical Committee and to the Chairs of the ISWA Working Groups for their<br />
contributions. Consulting regarding sustainability reporting was received from Karl Resel, <strong>Denkstatt</strong> GmbH.<br />
Photos: ISWA General Secretariat.<br />
ISWA – the International Solid Waste Association – is a global, independent and non-profit making association,<br />
working in the public interest to promote and develop sustainable waste management. ISWA has members in<br />
more than 80 countries and is the only worldwide association promoting sustainable, comprehensive and<br />
professional waste management.<br />
The Association is open to individuals and organizations from the scientific community, public institutions and<br />
public and private companies from all over the world working in the field of and interested in waste management.<br />
Being part of ISWA gives you an unparalleled access to international organizations. Through our Working Groups,<br />
we help these international organizations form policy by supplying technical papers and opinions regarding waste<br />
practices. ISWA is the only worldwide waste organization, which allows you to net-work with professionals,<br />
companies and institutional representatives.<br />
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This report is printed on recycled paper produced of 100 % recovered fibre, manufactured without optical<br />
brightening agents and chlorine bleaching.<br />
This report is also available in electronic format on www.iswa.org
Table of Contents<br />
Forewords ....................................................................................... 4<br />
1. Mission and Objectives ................................................................... 6<br />
2. Organisational Structure ................................................................ 7<br />
3. Promotion of Sustainable Waste Management ............................. 12<br />
3.1. Congresses and Conferences .......................................................... 12<br />
3.2. Scientific and Technical Committee .............................................. 15<br />
3.3. Working Groups ............................................................................. 15<br />
3.4. Task Forces ...................................................................................... 22<br />
3.5. EU Committee ................................................................................ 23<br />
3.6. Projects 2010/2011 .......................................................................... 23<br />
3.6.1. Waste and Climate Change Lobbying Action Plan ......................... 23<br />
3.6.2. Knowledge Base ............................................................................. 24<br />
3.6.3. TAP Centre ...................................................................................... 24<br />
3.6.4. ISWA Project Grant ........................................................................ 25<br />
3.6.5. Training Courses ISWA/UN-Habitat .............................................. 26<br />
3.6.6. ISWA/UNEP Balkan Flowers Project ............................................... 27<br />
3.6.7. ISSOWAMA Consortium Project ................................................... 27<br />
3.7. Print and Online Publishing .......................................................... 28<br />
3.8. International Waste Manager Programme .................................... 29<br />
3.9. Awards ........................................................................................... 29<br />
4. Environment ................................................................................... 31<br />
5. Financial Overview ......................................................................... 34<br />
6. National Members ......................................................................... 36<br />
7. Gold Members ............................................................................... 37<br />
8. Sponsors ........................................................................................ 38<br />
About the report ........................................................................... 39<br />
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President’s Message<br />
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It was only in the spring of 2010 that ISWA was able to<br />
set up its new office in the City of Vienna. A few weeks<br />
later we had in place the full complement of staff that<br />
we needed to provide services to all our ISWA members.<br />
The office was officially opened in June 2010 and offers<br />
excellent facilities for both staff and meeting space for<br />
ISWA members.<br />
The policy profile of ISWA is increasing as we expand our<br />
interests into new areas but we are also consolidating<br />
our mainstream activities, mainly through our Working<br />
Groups. Each now has a two-year work programme to<br />
guide their future activities. These activities include regular<br />
technical meetings, Beacon Conferences, assistance<br />
to the ISWA Annual Congresses and the production of<br />
reports and publications.<br />
Within ISWA we are still working towards developing<br />
sustainable solutions to tackle the overwhelming global<br />
crisis of climate change and the associated issues of the<br />
still expanding population growth and burgeoning resource<br />
demand, which is most acute in the case of food.<br />
The security of food supplies is also threatened by decreasing<br />
availability of fresh water, partly of course related to<br />
the climate change problem.<br />
ISWA is now working actively to ensure that the<br />
advantages of enhanced waste management practices<br />
in mitigating the adverse effects of climate change are<br />
recognised by the international community. This is despite<br />
the current consensus opinion that the forthcoming<br />
December 2011 UNFCCC (United Nations Framework<br />
Convention on Climate Change) CoP17 (Convention of the<br />
Parties’ meeting 17) to be held in Durban, South Africa is<br />
unlikely to be conclusive and that a top down internationally<br />
binding treaty would also be unlikely to emerge<br />
from this meeting. We have to look to both the short<br />
term opportunities and especially the longer term strategies<br />
which are needed to ensure that we can tackle the<br />
problem of climate change.<br />
That the waste and resource recovery businesses need<br />
to showcase what is already being achieved in climate<br />
change mitigation in Durban and beyond is essential.<br />
This will need to be ideally to present what further might<br />
be achieved with enhanced incentives.<br />
In addition to ISWA’s work to support for the Durban<br />
CoP17 meeting there will be the ISWA/Dakofa Conference<br />
in April 2012 focussing on the huge environmental benefits<br />
of enhanced waste management.<br />
The increasing interconnectedness of the world in many<br />
divergent ways: economic, social and communication and<br />
environmental was the main reason for ISWA establishing<br />
its Task Force on Globalisation and Waste Management.<br />
There are several streams of work related to this initiative<br />
including: megacities, the informal sector, global resource<br />
and waste flows and waste trafficking.<br />
The Globalisation and Waste Management Task Force was<br />
set up in 2010 and will provide its main findings in 2012.<br />
In the past year there have been notable meetings, for<br />
example a two-day workshop with representatives of the<br />
informal sector in order to see ways in which we can improve<br />
working relationships between the informal sector<br />
and the mainstream waste management sector, largely<br />
run through municipalities and private companies.<br />
The globalisation of resource flows has been accompanied<br />
by an increasing amount of recyclable materials being<br />
transported around the world, particularly from the<br />
developed economies to those economies growing most<br />
rapidly: China, India, Indonesia and others in South East<br />
Asia, for example.<br />
Sometimes inappropriate and even illegal items and<br />
materials are exported from the developed economies to<br />
developing economies often unable to deal with them.<br />
This waste trafficking can also affect developed economies<br />
where standards of regulation vary. Therefore this aspect<br />
of waste flows will be examined by the Task Force.<br />
Best wishes<br />
Jeff Cooper
Managing Director’s Message<br />
In the beginning of 2011 the consolidation process within<br />
the General Secretariat was successfully completed and<br />
ISWA’s Priorities and Programme Plan has since been implemented.<br />
As a major part of this plan we have carried<br />
out a series of projects, and here I would like to highlight<br />
some of the most important ones:<br />
• The Knowledge Base has been finalised and access<br />
is available at our website. With app. 1,000 different<br />
documents covering all fields of waste management<br />
we provide a comprehensive digital library with<br />
various search tools. The high number of hits on the<br />
knowledge base shows that it is already well known<br />
and of great interest.<br />
• The cooperation with UN bodies has been intensified,<br />
particularly with UN Habitat and UNEP. We organised<br />
a training course for 60 engineers from Iraq at our<br />
offices in Vienna, which involved a five days intensive<br />
course covering all relevant waste management<br />
issues in their regions and with contributions and<br />
presentations from different working group members.<br />
The feedback from the evaluation forms showed<br />
that the participants were very satisfied with the<br />
lessons and the study tours.<br />
• The ISWA Project Grant has been launched for<br />
innovative projects in the field of waste management.<br />
This grant is dedicated to only ISWA members<br />
and should strengthen ISWA’s technical and scientific<br />
profile, and promote and upgrade its international<br />
recognition and acceptance. 12 projects have been<br />
selected during a transparent procedure to receive<br />
funds within the next two years.<br />
We organised and co-organised a number of successful<br />
events. Particularly our Beacon Conferences attracted<br />
many people, two Beacon Conferences on Prevention &<br />
Recycling have already taken place this year and another<br />
two will follow later this year, one on Waste to Energy,<br />
and one focusing on Waste to Energy and Packaging<br />
Waste. Furthermore we have been cooperating with the<br />
academic sector to organise Expert Conferences focusing<br />
on different issues.<br />
I am delighted that due to our member service activities<br />
and acquisition measures the number of memberships<br />
is increasing in all categories, we have gained Belgium<br />
as new National Member. Compared to the previous<br />
year more organisational members joined ISWA, and<br />
the number of Individual members from developing<br />
countries increased rapidly. We provide our members<br />
and sponsors with a number of benefits, which we will<br />
continuously enhance, and in addition to that we offer<br />
various kinds of advertising opportunities.<br />
To enlarge our cooperation with other stakeholders we<br />
inked some Memorandums of Understanding, including<br />
concrete cooperation projects.<br />
The Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) in cooperation<br />
with ISWAs Working Groups elaborated important<br />
papers on waste prevention and waste trafficking. Furthermore<br />
two Tasks Forces were established, namely the<br />
Task Force Science and the Task Force Globalisation.<br />
The implementation of our Communication Plan was a<br />
great success: the update of our website and our social<br />
media activities led to a sharp increase of hits. On the<br />
ISWA newsletter, now with eight issues per year, we<br />
receive very positive feedback from members all over<br />
the world.<br />
The great outcome of the activities and projects mentioned<br />
above is based on the support and cooperation of<br />
the ISWA Board, the STC and the Working Group members.<br />
And the staff of the General Secretariat did a great<br />
job to assist and manage all these challenging tasks. I’d<br />
like to say thank you to all of you for your engagement<br />
and effort!<br />
Furthermore I want to thank the sponsors of the ISWA<br />
Report, with their contribution we were able to produce<br />
this comprehensive issue.<br />
Best regards<br />
Hermann Koller<br />
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1. Mission and Objectives<br />
Mission<br />
ISWA – the International Solid Waste Association – is a<br />
global, independent and non-profit making association,<br />
working in the public interest to fulfil its declared mission:<br />
Implementation<br />
ISWA is the only worldwide association promoting<br />
sustainable, comprehensive and professional waste<br />
management.<br />
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“To Promote and Develop Sustainable and Professional<br />
Waste Management Worldwide“<br />
ISWA achieves its mission through:<br />
• Efficiency in terms of environmental practice<br />
• Social acceptability and efficiency in terms of<br />
economic viability<br />
• Advancement of waste management<br />
through education and training<br />
• Support to developing countries through<br />
ISWA Development Programme<br />
• Professionalism through its programme on<br />
professional qualifications.<br />
Objectives<br />
ISWA works to protect human health and the environment<br />
and to ensure sustainable resource management.<br />
The objectives of ISWA are to promote and develop<br />
sustainable and professional waste management practices<br />
worldwide through scientific, economic and social<br />
instruments by:<br />
• Providing an international network, to share<br />
knowledge, data and experience in waste<br />
management<br />
• Organising expert working groups to advance<br />
knowledge and expertise<br />
• Organising professional meetings, seminars and<br />
conferences for the dissemination of information<br />
• Developing and implementing education and<br />
training courses on various aspects of waste<br />
management including a qualification and<br />
certification programme<br />
• Making available the results of state-of-the-art<br />
developments, experience, research and best<br />
practices through high quality, professional<br />
publications<br />
• Cooperating with the National Members of ISWA,<br />
as well as with International Organisations and<br />
Institutions whose goals and activities are related<br />
to ISWA‘s objectives<br />
• Promoting and strengthening sustainable waste<br />
management practices in developing countries.<br />
The association is open to individuals and organisations<br />
from the scientific community, public institutions and<br />
public and private companies from all over the world<br />
working in the field of and interested in waste management.<br />
ISWA is working with its unique mix of members who<br />
span the whole waste sector for the promotion and<br />
development of sustainable waste management across<br />
the world. Being a non-profit and non-governmental<br />
association, ISWA is able to promote an unbiased view<br />
of sustainable waste management.<br />
ISWA promotes and develops sustainable waste<br />
management through:<br />
• The work of its ten Working Groups who are<br />
the drivers for ISWA’s technical work<br />
• The organisation of more than 30 professional<br />
meetings, workshops and conferences per year<br />
• The development and implementation of projects,<br />
and through the co-operation on joint projects with<br />
other International Organisations<br />
• ISWA’s three Regional Development Networks (RDNs),<br />
working on key waste issues specific to<br />
Latin America, the Balkans/Mediterranean/Middle<br />
East and the Asia Pacific area<br />
• Raising professional standards through tailor<br />
made training courses and through its International<br />
Waste Manager (IWM) programme<br />
• The ISWA Project Grant<br />
• The ISWA Knowledge Base<br />
• The work of its Task Forces on Science and on<br />
Globalisation and Waste Management<br />
• The production and dissemination of high quality,<br />
professional publications<br />
• Communication and Publication awards.<br />
ISWA is the leading international association of<br />
reference for high quality professional information and<br />
advice regarding all aspects of waste management.<br />
How ISWA fulfilled its mission and objectives in 2010<br />
and the first half of 2011 is described in detail in chapter 3<br />
“Promotion of Sustainable Waste Management”.
2. Organizational Structure<br />
ISWA functions through an organisational structure as plotted and pictured below. The relations between the<br />
different bodies of the association and their establishment, competences and responsibilities are laid down in<br />
a complex set of rules, shortly called “STIROG” – the Statutes, the Internal Regulations and the Operational<br />
Guidelines.<br />
ISWA Members<br />
National Members<br />
Organisation Members<br />
Individual Members<br />
Online Members<br />
General Assembly<br />
Official Representatives of the<br />
36 National Members<br />
Board<br />
11 Members: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Chair of Scientific and Technical Committee, 2 National<br />
Member Representatives, 2 Organisation Member Representatives and 3 Regional Network Representatives<br />
General Secretariat<br />
Managing Director and GS Staff<br />
Regional Development Networks<br />
Scientific and Technical Committee<br />
Chair, Vice Chair, 10 Working Group Chairs<br />
Asia and Pacific<br />
The Balkans,<br />
Middle East and<br />
Mediterranean<br />
Latin America<br />
Working Groups<br />
Task Forces<br />
WGC WGLI WGL WGER WGHW WGHW WGRWM WGBTW WGCTT WGCCWM TFS TFGWM<br />
WGC = Working Group on Communication<br />
WGLI = Working Group on Legal Issues<br />
WGL = Working Group on Landfill<br />
WGER = Working Group on Energy Recovery<br />
WGRWM = Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimization<br />
WGBTW = Working Group on Biological Treatment of Waste<br />
WGHW = Working Group on Hazardous Waste<br />
WGHCW = Working Group on Healthcare Waste<br />
WGCTT = Working Group on Collection and Transportation Technology<br />
WGCCWM = Working Group on Climate Change and Waste Management<br />
TFS = Task Force on Science<br />
TFGWM = Task Force on Globalisation and Waste Management<br />
The General Assembly<br />
The General Assembly is the ruling body of ISWA and<br />
consists of the official representatives of the National<br />
Members, currently 36. Its specific duties include establishment<br />
of membership requirements, dues, and<br />
policy. The General Assembly empowers the Board with<br />
responsibilities for managing, through the General Secretariat,<br />
the affairs of ISWA. The General Assembly meets<br />
annually at the ISWA World Congress (see chapter 3.1.).<br />
The President<br />
The President represents ISWA in all of its activities and<br />
chairs the General Assembly. He serves a two-year term<br />
and also chairs the Board.<br />
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The General Assembly 2010<br />
President Jeff Cooper awards Honorary Membership to<br />
Past-President Atilio Savino at the ISWA World Congress 2010
The Board<br />
The Board is elected by the General Assembly and is<br />
responsible for all strategic and policy issues of ISWA.<br />
Within the authorities assigned to it by the General<br />
Assembly, the Statutes, the Internal Regulations and<br />
Operational Guidelines, the Board assures that the<br />
mission of ISWA is met. The Board met 5 times in 2010<br />
and 4 times in 2011, the main issues and activities<br />
were as follows:<br />
The Board at the General Assembly 2010<br />
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Project Funding<br />
Regarding the financial support of projects a new procedure<br />
has been developed and implemented. One of<br />
the main issues was to ensure a transparent, uniform<br />
and clear decision-making process for the sound use of<br />
the ISWA Project Grant. 12 projects have been selected<br />
by an evaluation committee and the Board to be funded<br />
(see chapter 3.6.4).<br />
Climate Change Activities - UNFCCC<br />
A comprehensive action plan was developed and carried<br />
out with regard to the United Nations Framework<br />
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conferences.<br />
The main aim of the action plan is that Waste Management<br />
and Recycling is identified in the final UN-declarations<br />
on climate change as a crucial sector for investment<br />
to mitigate climate change. All relevant ISWA<br />
stakeholders have been contacted to cooperate on and<br />
contribute to this important issue (see chapter 3.6.1).<br />
Review Group<br />
The General Assembly has given a mandate to a so<br />
called “Review Group” to study and make proposals regarding<br />
membership development, the role of National<br />
Members and the relations between these and ISWA.<br />
This Review Group, consisting of Board Members and<br />
representatives of the National Members, met two times<br />
in 2011 and will present their findings at this year’s<br />
General Assembly.<br />
Position- and Key Issue Papers<br />
Two comprehensive papers developed by the Working<br />
Group on Recycling and Waste Minimization have been<br />
adopted: a Position Paper on Waste Trafficking and a Key<br />
Issue Paper on Waste Prevention, Waste Minimization<br />
and Resource Management.<br />
GS Matters<br />
With the completion of the consolidation process within<br />
the General Secretariat, a series of activities and projects<br />
have been successfully developed, e.g. the implementation<br />
of ISWA’s Priorities and Programme Plan, cooperation<br />
projects with UN bodies and training courses.<br />
Regional Development Network (RDN) Activities<br />
In 2010 a Memorandum of Understanding to establish<br />
a Training, Advisory & Promotion (TAP) Centre for waste<br />
management in the Asia Pacific Region has been negotiated<br />
and signed. This year first activities of the TAP Centre<br />
located in Singapore were carried out: a workshop and<br />
symposium with more than 200 participants has been<br />
organised, and training courses for the region of South<br />
East Asia are planned. The RDN Latin America organised<br />
a very successful Beacon Conference on Waste Prevention<br />
and Recycling in Buenos Aires in June 2011, and the RDN<br />
The Balkans, Middle East and Mediterranean is on the way<br />
to organise another Beacon Conference later this year.<br />
Beacon Conferences<br />
Two Beacon Conferences on Waste Prevention and<br />
Recycling have already been organised this year, one in<br />
Vienna, Austria, and another one in Buenos Aires. Two<br />
more Beacon Conferences will be held later this year,<br />
one on Waste-to-Energy in Malmö, Sweden, and one<br />
focusing on Waste-to-Energy and Packaging Waste<br />
in Novi Sad, Serbia.<br />
Members of the Board in 2010/2011<br />
Jeff Cooper, United Kingdom,Vice President<br />
David Newman, Italy, Vice President<br />
Helmut Stadler, Austria, Treasurer<br />
Antonis Mavropoulos, Greece, STC Chair<br />
Erik de Baedts, The Netherlands,<br />
National Member Representative<br />
John Skinner, USA, National Member Representative<br />
Jørgen Haukohl, Denmark,<br />
Organisation Member Representative<br />
Jean–Paul Leglise, France,<br />
Organisation Member Representative<br />
Doron Sapir, Israel,<br />
Regional Development Network Representative<br />
Guah Eng Hock, Singapore,<br />
Regional Development Network Representative<br />
Alberto Bianchini, Brazil,<br />
Regional Development Network Representative
The General Secretariat<br />
The General Secretariat (GS) is the headquarters of ISWA<br />
and is responsible for the operational and administration<br />
matters, as well as for the development and implementation<br />
of projects, plans and strategies.<br />
The Managing Director serves as the chief executive<br />
officer of ISWA and is responsible for all planning, management,<br />
direction, co-ordination and support to all<br />
ISWA operations, committees, meetings, publications,<br />
relations with other organisations, and for the membership-<br />
and business development.<br />
In 2011 the reorganisation of the General Secretariat,<br />
which started in 2010, was successfully completed: with<br />
a revised, well-considered, slim structure and clearly<br />
defined responsibilities an efficient administration, best<br />
possible member support and expertise has been created.<br />
This is further supported by having all team members<br />
located at the headquarters in Vienna. The GS staff<br />
members and their main responsibilities are:<br />
Rachael Williams,<br />
Technical Manager<br />
• Cooperation with STC, WM&R<br />
• Project Management (Knowledge Base,<br />
Project Grant etc.)<br />
Task Forces<br />
• Assistance to Working Groups<br />
Julia Schönherr,<br />
Administrative and Project Assistant<br />
• Member Service Support<br />
• WM&R Administrative Matters<br />
• Various Communication Matters<br />
Gerfried Habenicht,<br />
Communications Manager<br />
• Development and Implementation of<br />
Communication Plan<br />
• Publications (WMW, Newsletter, ISWA Report etc.)<br />
• Assistance to Working Groups<br />
• Legal Issues<br />
• Event Promotion and Advertisements<br />
• ISWA Awards<br />
• Website Contents and Design, Social Media<br />
Hermann Koller,<br />
Managing Director<br />
• Cooperation with Board<br />
• Development and Implementation<br />
of Strategies and Programmes<br />
• Business Development<br />
Besides the daily business like Member- and Working<br />
Group support, the organisation and promotion of<br />
events, and the services related to the ISWA publications,<br />
the main activities and projects of the General Secretariat<br />
in 2011 were as follows:<br />
• Implementation of ISWA’s Priorities and<br />
Programme Plan<br />
• Finalising of the ISWA Knowledge Base<br />
(see chapter 3.6.2)<br />
• Organisation of training courses, commissioned<br />
by UN Habitat (see chapter 3.6.5)<br />
• Developing of the project PET Packaging Waste<br />
in the Balkan Countries, commissioned by UNEP<br />
(see chapter 3.6.6)<br />
Kimberley Winternitz,<br />
Office Manager and Project Assistant<br />
• Organisation of events<br />
• International Waste Manager Programme<br />
Alfred Holzschuster,<br />
Finance and Member Service Management<br />
• Member Service<br />
• Finance Management (Bookkeeping,<br />
Controlling, Project Monitoring, Statistics)<br />
• Web Administrator<br />
• Development and Implementation of IT Projects<br />
• Graphics, Layouts (Advertisements, Banners,<br />
Presentations, Programmes etc.)<br />
• Assistance to Working Groups<br />
The team at the ISWA General Secretariat in Vienna,<br />
from left to right: Hermann Koller, Julia Schönherr,<br />
Gerfried Habenicht, Rachael Williams, Alfred Holzschuster,<br />
Kim Winternitz<br />
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Scientific and Technical Committee<br />
The Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) is established<br />
by the General Assembly and governed by its Chair and<br />
the current Chairs of the ISWA Working Groups. The STC<br />
represents ISWA’s technical expertise and coordinates<br />
the activities of the Working Groups. Members meet<br />
3-4 times a year, often in connection with the Board<br />
meetings. The Chair of the STC is also a member of the<br />
ISWA Board.<br />
For more detailed information on the ISWA Task Forces<br />
and on their activities in 2010/2011 see chapter 3.4 below.<br />
For more detailed information on the 2010/2011<br />
activities of the STC see chapter 3.2 below.<br />
Working Groups<br />
ISWA Working Groups are established by the Board upon<br />
recommendations by the STC. The purpose of the<br />
Working Groups is to serve as the principal means for<br />
ISWA to deliver its technical and scientific programmes.<br />
As such, the Board and the ISWA membership look to<br />
the Working Groups for technical information and<br />
assistance, basic and applied research, professional<br />
meetings, and the development and dissemination of<br />
information regarding solid waste management.<br />
Currently there are 10 Working Groups.<br />
For more detailed information on the Working Groups<br />
and on their activities in 2010/2011 see chapter 3.3 below.<br />
Regional Development Networks<br />
ISWA has established different Regional Development<br />
Networks (RDN) to more effectively reach regions outside<br />
of its traditionally strong areas (i.e. Western Europe<br />
and North America). The RDNs aim is to promote sustainable<br />
waste management by carrying out activities and<br />
developing programmes that focus on their regions<br />
special needs and challenges.<br />
There are currently three Regional Development<br />
Networks that have been established, each of them<br />
represented by one member on the ISWA Board.<br />
National Members within the areas of the RDNs are:<br />
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Task forces<br />
Task Forces are established to handle special new<br />
challenges identified by the Board which require expert<br />
and concentrated attention which can not be provided<br />
by a Working Group. The Task Forces provide a means<br />
for ISWA to obtain specialised information to assist ISWA<br />
in policy and programme determination. Task Forces are<br />
established for a specific purpose and assignment, have<br />
a stated length for existence, are administered by the<br />
STC, and are disbanded when their effort is completed.<br />
Currently there are two Task Forces active, one on<br />
Globalisation and one Science.<br />
Asia and Pacific Regional Network<br />
Australia<br />
WMAA Waste Management Association of Australia<br />
China<br />
CAUES China Association of Urban<br />
Environmental Sanitation<br />
India<br />
NSWAI National Solid Waste Association of India<br />
Japan<br />
JWMA Japan Waste Management Association<br />
Malaysia<br />
WMAM Waste Management Association of Malaysia<br />
New Zealand<br />
WasteMINZ Waste Management Institute<br />
of New Zealand<br />
Singapore<br />
WMRAS Waste Management and Recycling<br />
Association of Singapore<br />
South Korea<br />
KSWM Korea Society of Waste Management
The Balkans, Middle East and<br />
Mediterranean Regional Network<br />
Bosnia and Herzegovina<br />
CENER21 Centre for Energy, Environment and Resources<br />
Greece<br />
HSWMA Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association<br />
Israel<br />
Dan Region Association of Towns - Sanitation<br />
and Waste Disposal<br />
Romania<br />
ARS Romanian Association of Solid Waste Management<br />
Serbia<br />
SeSWA Serbian Solid Waste Association<br />
Turkey<br />
Turkish National Committee on Solid Wastes<br />
Latin America Regional Network<br />
Argentina<br />
ARS Association for Solid Waste Studies<br />
Brazil<br />
ABRELPE Brazilian Association of Public Cleaning<br />
and Special Waste Companies<br />
Membership<br />
ISWA has the following different membership<br />
categories: National Members, Organisation Members,<br />
Individual Members and Online Members.<br />
The National Members (see chapter 6.) are non-profit,<br />
waste management associations representing the<br />
waste management industry in a particular country.<br />
Generally, these associations have memberships from<br />
both the private and public sectors. Based on ISWA<br />
regulations, the National Members are the only memberships<br />
allowed to vote at the General Assembly and thus,<br />
they constitute the governing body of ISWA. Through<br />
the National Members, ISWA’s network reaches out to<br />
some 25.000 to 30.000 global professionals interested<br />
in the waste management field.<br />
Organisation Members are public or private organisations<br />
and companies working in or associated with the field<br />
of waste management which, depending on the annual<br />
dues paid, enjoy a different range of member benefits<br />
(see chapter 7. and www.iswa.org).<br />
ISWA world map as per July 2011<br />
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ISWA NATIONAL AND INCOMING NATIONAL MEMBERS<br />
COUNTRIES WITH ISWA MEMBERS
3. Promotion of Sustainable<br />
Waste Management<br />
ISWA’s mission is to promote and develop sustainable<br />
and professional waste management worldwide<br />
(see chapter 1.) How does ISWA achieve its mission<br />
ISWA promotes and develops sustainable waste<br />
management through the organisation of meetings<br />
and events, particularly of congresses and conferences,<br />
and through the publication of a wide range of specialist<br />
literature.<br />
Another important contribution is the effort of its ten<br />
Working Groups and the activities of its Scientific and<br />
Technical Committee. In order to achieve further progress<br />
on sustainable development, ISWA implements task<br />
forces, committees and projects. ISWA provides a multitude<br />
of platforms for the creation and the exchange<br />
of knowledge.<br />
ISWA raises professional standards in the field of<br />
sustainable waste management through its certification<br />
programme “International Waste Manager”, through<br />
its tailor made training course programmes and through<br />
its co-operations with other International Organisations.<br />
Finally, ISWA funds projects in the field of sustainable<br />
waste management via the ISWA Project Grant and<br />
fosters good communication and publications on<br />
sustainable waste management with awards.<br />
The following chapters provide an overview on ISWA’s<br />
various activities in the promotion of sustainable waste<br />
management emphasising the second half of the year<br />
2010 and the first half of 2011.<br />
3.1. Congresses and Conferences<br />
The biggest event that ISWA organises regularly is the<br />
ISWA World Congress. The World Congress is a 4 day<br />
event held once a year in autumn and usually attracts<br />
600 to 900 participants from 50 to 70 different countries.<br />
At each of the last years World Congresses there were<br />
between 100 and 180 presentations by renowned international<br />
experts.<br />
Furthermore ISWA organises several Beacon Conferences<br />
each year. These conferences focus on different<br />
waste management topics like Biological Treatment,<br />
Waste-to-Energy, Sanitary Landfill or Recycling<br />
and Waste Minimization and attract depending on the<br />
size of the conference venue 70 to 700 participants.<br />
World Congresses<br />
From 17 to 20 October the City of Daegu, Korea, hosts<br />
this year’s ISWA World Congress themed “Waste to<br />
Green: Waste Management for Low Carbon & Green<br />
Growth Society”. The event has been co-organized by<br />
ISWA events and meetings in 2011<br />
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our Korean National Member KSWM, the Korea Society<br />
of Waste Management.<br />
Delegates World Congresses (2006 – 2010)<br />
800<br />
The last ISWA World Congress took place in Hamburg,<br />
Germany, from 15 to 18 of November 2010. The theme<br />
of this very successful event was “Urban Development<br />
and Sustainability”. 739 delegates from 54 countries<br />
were offered a great deal during these 4 congress days:<br />
More than 45 sessions with greater than 150 high-profile<br />
presentations and speeches, 20 meetings, 7 technical<br />
tours, an atmospheric Townhall Reception and an opulent<br />
Gala Dinner – everything organised perfectly by our<br />
German National Member VKS im VKU.<br />
Number of Delegates<br />
700<br />
600<br />
500<br />
400<br />
300<br />
200<br />
100<br />
680<br />
697<br />
642 650<br />
739<br />
0<br />
Copenhagen<br />
2006<br />
Amsterdam<br />
2007<br />
Singapore<br />
2008<br />
Lisbon<br />
2009<br />
Hamburg<br />
2010<br />
ISWA World Congress 2010, Hamburg, Germany<br />
The ISWA World Congress 2009 took place in Lisbon,<br />
Portugal, at the Cultural Centre of Belém and was<br />
co-organized by the Portuguese Association of Sanitary<br />
and Environmental Engineering (APESB). The theme<br />
of the Congress was „Turning Waste into Ideas“.<br />
The World Congress 2008 was held in Singapore. This<br />
event was co-organized by the Waste Management and<br />
Recycling Association of Singapore (WMRAS) and the<br />
National Environment Agency (NEA). The ISWA World<br />
Congress 2007 “Challenging the future” was held at in<br />
Amsterdam and co-organized by ISWA’s Dutch National<br />
member NVRD.<br />
The next ISWA World Congresses will be held in Florence,<br />
Italy (2012), Vienna, Austria (2013) and Sao Paolo,<br />
Brazil (2014).<br />
Beacon Conferences<br />
The series of Beacon Conferences organised by ISWA<br />
have been a great success since years. Some recent<br />
shining examples were the three “Beacons” that took<br />
place at the end of 2010 and during the first half of the<br />
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year 2011. Steadily growing numbers of participants are<br />
an indicator for the quality of these events: A total of<br />
over 1,000 delegates – 300 more than in the comparable<br />
time period 2009/2010 - attended the three conferences:<br />
Novi Sad, Serbia<br />
The ISWA Beacon Conference on Public Private Partnership<br />
and Hazardous Waste in Developing Countries in SEE,<br />
Middle East and Mediterranean Region, which took place<br />
in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 8 to 10 December 2010, was<br />
attended by over 250 participants from 21 countries.<br />
The conference was co-organised by SeSWA, the Serbian<br />
Solid Waste Association, and the Faculty of Technical<br />
Sciences, Department for Environmental Engineering,<br />
University of Novi Sad. Academic staff, researchers,<br />
professionals, landfill operators, municipal administration<br />
staff and the staff of public and utility companies were<br />
provided an excellent opportunity to get together, exchange<br />
experiences and adopt new ideas in the field of<br />
waste management. The first SeSWA EXPO, organised<br />
within the ISWA Beacon Conference, provided a chance<br />
for 15 companies to present their work and discover<br />
new business opportunities.<br />
Buenos Aires, Argentina<br />
650 participants from Argentina, Austria,<br />
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Greece, India,<br />
Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, The Netherlands,<br />
United Kingdom and Uruguay attended the ISWA<br />
Beacon Conference “Waste Prevention and Recycling”<br />
which took place in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina,<br />
from 21 to 22 June 2011.<br />
Apart from Waste Minimization and Recycling, main<br />
topics of the Conference were Globalization and<br />
Megacities, Informal Sector, Compostable / Biodegradable<br />
Plastic Bags, Waste from Electrical and Electronic<br />
Equipment (WEEE), and Financing of Waste Management.<br />
Given the quantity and quality of the audience, who<br />
represented both the public and the private sector, there<br />
is no doubt that Prevention and Recycling play an<br />
important role in the Integrated Urban Solid Waste<br />
Management Agenda; not only in Argentina, but also<br />
in other countries of the region.<br />
Vienna, Austria<br />
130 experts from the waste and resource management<br />
sector, coming from 25 different countries (nearly<br />
double the attendance we had at the first edition of<br />
this conference in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, last year!),<br />
gathered in Vienna, Austria, on 23 and 24 May 2011 to<br />
attend the second ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste<br />
Prevention and Recycling.<br />
ISWA Beacon Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia<br />
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This conference has been initiated by the ISWA Working<br />
Group for Recycling and Waste Minimization and is<br />
instrumental in disseminating the recent knowledge<br />
and developments especially in the areas of Waste<br />
Prevention, Sustainable Production and Consumption<br />
and Life Cycle Thinking. An exclusive panel of speakers,<br />
including senior representatives from UNEP, EU Commission,<br />
European Environmental Agency, assessed<br />
policy instruments and practices for waste prevention,<br />
contemplated environmental impacts of production and<br />
consumption, took an in-depth look into strategies on resource<br />
management and into new recycling technologies.<br />
A very active expert audience took the opportunity to<br />
discuss all these issues with the speakers and to network<br />
extensively – a high class evening reception hosted by<br />
the City of Vienna and exclusive site visits rounded up<br />
the event programme.<br />
ISWA Beacon Conference, Vienna, Austria<br />
ISWA Beacon Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina
3.2. Scientific and Technical Committee<br />
Chair: Antonis Mavropoulos, Greece<br />
Vice-Chair: Maarten Goorhuis, Netherlands<br />
The Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) represents<br />
ISWA’s technical expertise and is governed by its Chair<br />
and the current Chairs and Vice Chairs of the ten ISWA<br />
Working Groups. The STC Members meet 3-4 times a<br />
year, often in connection with the Board meetings. The<br />
Chair of the STC is also a member of the ISWA Board.<br />
The STC is the technical and scientific think-tank of<br />
ISWA. During the last two years the STC has focused on<br />
improving the deliverability of WG’s through certain WG<br />
work programmes. For 2010 - 2011, the major contribution<br />
of the STC was the formulation as well as the implementation<br />
of the ISWA Grants scheme, in cooperation with GS<br />
and the Board. The successful evaluation of 33 proposals<br />
and support to the GS for the final contractual arrangements<br />
of specific projects has set up a new base for<br />
ISWA’s scientific and technical profile which will be<br />
substantially improved with the projects’ deliverables<br />
(see also chapter 3.6.4.).<br />
In 2010 the STC set seven important priorities for ISWA<br />
to address through the STC and Working Group Work<br />
Programmes. On a more technical level, the main<br />
activities of the STC in 2010/2011 have centered on<br />
these priorities and include:<br />
• Support of the Working Group on Climate Change<br />
to address the issue of Sustainable Waste<br />
Management and Greenhouse Gases<br />
• Implementation and creating content for the ISWA<br />
Knowledge Base (see chapter 3.4.2.)<br />
• Contributions and support to the ISWA Task Force<br />
on Globalisation, including a Workshop on the<br />
informal waste sector held in Buenos Aires and<br />
the preparation of a paper on Globalisation and<br />
Waste Management<br />
• Finalising two key issue papers, one on Waste<br />
Prevention, Minimisation and Resource Management,<br />
and another on Waste Trafficking. Beginning<br />
the preparation of a key issue paper on Food Waste<br />
• Strengthening and development of the International<br />
Waste Manager (IWM) Programme<br />
• Improving the recognition of ISWA members who<br />
voluntarily dedicate their precious time to tasks and<br />
activities of the organisation<br />
• Strengthening ISWAs Scientific Profile, through<br />
the establishment of a Task Force on Science<br />
The role of the STC is to conduct and coordinate the<br />
technical work of ISWA. The actions of the STC are based<br />
on its own objectives and annual work programme, as<br />
well as the work programmes for the different Working<br />
Groups. The Working Groups each function differently<br />
and this difference is respected as far as possible. The<br />
input from the Working Groups is based on voluntary<br />
work from its members and ISWA recognises the efforts<br />
made by its large number of Working Group members.<br />
Working Group Meetings are usually held 2 times a year.<br />
3.3. Working Groups<br />
The purpose of the ISWA Working Groups is to serve as<br />
the principal means for ISWA to deliver its technical and<br />
scientific programmes. As such, the Board and the ISWA<br />
membership look to the Working Groups for technical<br />
information and assistance, basic and applied research,<br />
professional meetings, and the development and dissemination<br />
of information about solid waste management.<br />
Currently there are 10 Working Groups with a total of<br />
around 250 members coming from more than 30 different<br />
nations:<br />
Working Group on Communication<br />
Chair: Gunilla Carlsson, Sweden<br />
Vice Chair: Suzanne Arup Veltze, Denmark<br />
The Working Group on Communication serves as the<br />
principal resource to ISWA in the field of communication<br />
and social relations. The Working Group addresses<br />
public concerns, comprising public support and public<br />
opposition to waste management policies, public<br />
consultation and participation, and communication<br />
and social issues with focus on basic human attitudes<br />
towards waste.<br />
The Working Group's main objectives are to:<br />
• cover communication and social aspects within<br />
the framework of waste management.<br />
• acknowledge and communicate the growing<br />
importance of public acceptance for a successful<br />
implementation and proper conduct of waste<br />
management policies, such as collection systems,<br />
siting of facilities, disposal fees, regulations and<br />
other related aspects.<br />
• foster the good reputation of professional waste<br />
management among the public by developing, coordinating,<br />
and disseminating strategies and tools<br />
aimed at increasing public support of and reducing<br />
public opposition to waste management strategies.<br />
• strengthen the role of communication as a<br />
determining factor for achieving satisfactory<br />
solutions in waste management practices.<br />
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Voluntary Time for ISWA<br />
The dynamics of an association rely on the activities<br />
of its members. Thus, the total amount of voluntary<br />
time spent for ISWA is a core indicator. It shows the<br />
commitment and dedication of its members to sustainable<br />
waste management. Furthermore, it shows how<br />
attractive the diverse working groups and committees<br />
are. Last but not least the amount of voluntary time<br />
spent is a good indicator for the future success of ISWA:<br />
because it is within the working groups and committees<br />
where exiting results, new projects and publications are<br />
developed.<br />
2010 was a year of immense activity. The total number<br />
of voluntary time spent for ISWA in its diverse bodies<br />
amounted to 261 person days. One year before, the<br />
members of the various working groups and committees<br />
invested 182 person days. Thus, the voluntary time<br />
invested increased by 43 % from 2009 to 2010.<br />
This increase is especially due to the activities of the<br />
working groups. In a nutshell: More members convened<br />
more frequently. Whereas 2009 the total voluntary time<br />
spent was about 100 person days, the number for 2010<br />
augmented to 167.5. Over the last three years, the average<br />
duration of these meetings was about 1.15 days.<br />
In 2010 the Board convened five times, the total amount<br />
of voluntary time amounted to more than 56.5 person<br />
days. The voluntary time within the Scientific and Technical<br />
Committee increased as well. In total its members<br />
invested 37 days in 2010.<br />
These numbers are even more impressive considering<br />
the fact that they only represent the time spent in<br />
meetings. Travelling time as well as the time spent on<br />
preparing the meetings is not included in these figures.<br />
For 2011 a further increase in voluntary time spent can<br />
be expected. From January to August 2010 ISWA members<br />
invested 142.5 person days. Within the same period<br />
of time in the year 2011 the total number of voluntary<br />
time was already 164 person days – not considering the<br />
activities in the Review-Group, the Waste Management<br />
and Research Editorial Meetings and the Task Forces.<br />
The dynamic development of ISWA continues.<br />
Voluntary Time in Meetings<br />
(without time for preparation and travelling)<br />
300<br />
261.00<br />
250<br />
56.50<br />
Voluntary Person Days<br />
200<br />
150<br />
182.00<br />
51.50<br />
32.00<br />
37.00<br />
180.00<br />
16.00<br />
23.00<br />
30.00<br />
16<br />
100<br />
50<br />
98.50<br />
167.50<br />
111.00<br />
Board Meetings<br />
STC Meetings<br />
Working Groups<br />
0<br />
2009<br />
2010<br />
2011<br />
(until August)<br />
Review-Groups,<br />
Editorial Meetings,<br />
Task Forces
Main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Social media and waste prevention<br />
• Development of a session for the ISWA World<br />
Congress 2012<br />
• The ISWA Communication Plan<br />
• The ISWA Communication Award<br />
• Attracting new members to strengthen<br />
the Working Group<br />
• Communication tools for ISWA’s Climate<br />
Change Lobbying Action Plan activities<br />
Future activities of the Working Group will be the<br />
development and organisation of a 1.5 hours session for<br />
the ISWA World Congress 2012 in Florence, Italy, and<br />
support in developing communication tools for ISWA’s<br />
lobbying activities at COP17 (UN Climate Change<br />
Conference in Durban in December 2011).<br />
Working Group on Energy Recovery<br />
Chair: Bettina Kamuk, Denmark<br />
Vice Chair: Jørgen Haukohl, Denmark<br />
without waste-to-energy so far. (Funding from the<br />
ISWA Project Grant)<br />
• Preparation of a “White Book” on alternative<br />
emerging energy technologies (e.g. thermal<br />
gasification, hydrogen from waste etc.)<br />
• Update of the State-of-the-Art-Report: the 6th<br />
version of the Report will include information on<br />
all plants from Europe as well as from the USA<br />
• Preparation of Sessions for ISWA World Congresses<br />
in Daegu, South Korea, and Florence, Italy<br />
• Contributions to Waste Management & Research<br />
Journal: Articles and a special issue for the ISWA<br />
World Congress 2011 in Daegu, South Korea<br />
• Organisation of the 7th ISWA Beacon Conference<br />
“Waste-to-Energy – State of the Art and Latest News”<br />
taking place from 3 – 4 November 2011 in Malmö,<br />
Sweden, in co-operation with Afval Sverige<br />
• Discussion on the R1 formula with updates from<br />
different countries<br />
• Discussion on the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED)<br />
The focus for future activities will remain on encouraging<br />
and supporting, at international and national levels,<br />
mechanisms for effective contribution to the public<br />
policy debate on the role of thermal treatment as an<br />
essential part of integrated waste management.<br />
Working Group Healthcare Waste<br />
Chair: Jan-Gerd Kuehling, Germany<br />
Vice Chair: Yves Chartier, Swizzerland<br />
The Working Group on Energy Recovery addresses the<br />
thermal treatment of waste, the production of energy,<br />
control of emissions from waste-to-energy, and the<br />
management of residues resulting from waste-to-energy.<br />
The Working Group’s main objectives are:<br />
• to promote the adoption of cost-effective,<br />
environmentally sound systems, methods and<br />
practices for thermal treatment of municipal<br />
waste, thereby especially addressing the wasteto<br />
energy concept<br />
• to develop, co-ordinate and disseminate timely<br />
information on institutional, technological,<br />
economic, environmental and research developments<br />
in the field of thermal treatment of<br />
municipal waste<br />
Healthcare includes for both humans and animals the<br />
medical activities for the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment,<br />
prevention of disease or alleviation of handicap<br />
including related research. Healthcare Waste is the solid<br />
or liquid waste arising from Healthcare and includes<br />
personal hygiene waste products. Healthcare Risk Waste<br />
includes Biological Waste, Infectious Waste, Sharps,<br />
Chemical, Toxic or Pharmaceutical Waste including<br />
Cytotoxins and Radioactive Wastes.<br />
The WGs main objectives are to promote the integrated<br />
provision of the infrastructure for the safe management<br />
of Healthcare Waste world-wide, within the framework<br />
of the objectives, activities and means of implementation<br />
established by Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference<br />
on the Environment and Development.<br />
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Main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Preparation of a report “Waste-to-Energy” with<br />
description of the technology, advantages,<br />
disadvantages, possibilities, limitations, costs etc;<br />
to be used by developing countries and countries<br />
The main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Support of the Indian Society of Healthcare Waste<br />
Management Conference<br />
• Cooperation with the World Health Organisation:<br />
the Working Group has been engaged for the last
few years in producing the new version of the WHO<br />
publication “The safe management of wastes from<br />
healthcare activities” (Blue Book). The book was<br />
published in 1999 and is now in its final stages of<br />
review prior to being published later this year. The<br />
Working Group was successful in obtaining funding<br />
to contribute toward the printing of the Blue Book.<br />
• Establishing a cooperation agreement with the<br />
annual European Medical Waste Conference<br />
• Preparation of a session on Healthcare Waste for<br />
the ISWA World Congress in Florence, Italy<br />
• Attracting new members to strengthen the<br />
Working Group<br />
• Supporting the ISWA/UNHABITAT Project to<br />
train 60 Iraqi Trainees in Healthcare Waste.<br />
The WG on Landfill will continue with the task to close<br />
open dumpsites and to promote the construction of<br />
appropriately engineered sustainable landfills worldwide.<br />
The revision of the International Guidelines for Landfill<br />
Evaluation, once finalised, will help support the WG in<br />
this task. The WG will continue to seek the improvement<br />
of landfill standards worldwide through the provision of<br />
training and guidance in good landfill practice.<br />
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The WG reinforced with enthusiastic new members<br />
plans to become more involved in the immediate future<br />
with training and the development of standards.<br />
Working Group on Landfill<br />
Chair: Derek Greedy, United Kingdom<br />
Vice Chair: Jan Thrane, Denmark<br />
The Working Group on Landfill addresses the planning,<br />
siting, design, construction, operation, closure, and<br />
end-use of landfills. The WGs overall interests are in the<br />
proper closure of open dumps worldwide and the move<br />
towards the construction and operation of modern<br />
engineered, sustainable landfills. These interests have<br />
led to providing technical support on the design,<br />
construction, regulation, and management of landfills,<br />
for both industrialised and developing nations. Further<br />
aspects include operations, closure, and end-use concepts,<br />
along with standard practices for ground water<br />
monitoring and testing, leachate management, gas<br />
management, and storm water management.<br />
The main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Landfill Operation Guidelines translation into<br />
Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin<br />
• Update on International Guidelines for<br />
Sustainable Landfill Evaluation<br />
• Development of a State of the Nation Report,<br />
covering landfilling practices and regulations in<br />
different countries.<br />
• Formalising cooperation with the Global Methane<br />
Initiative through the signing of an MOU<br />
• Preparation of two sessions on Landfilling for<br />
the ISWA World Congress in Florence, Italy<br />
• Support of the Africa Sustainable Waste<br />
Management Conference, Luanda, Angola<br />
Working Group on Legal Issues<br />
Chair: Olaf Wendler, Germany<br />
Vice Chair: Helmut Stadler, Austria<br />
The purpose of the Working Group on Legal Issues is<br />
to serve as a platform for knowledge exchange and as<br />
the principal resource to ISWA on legal issues related to<br />
waste and resource management. The overall interest<br />
for the Working Group is the exchange of information<br />
and views on legal aspects concerning hot topics in<br />
waste management. Currently there is much focus on<br />
EU-waste legislation, environmental responsibility and<br />
the legal aspects of different kinds of public private<br />
partnership.<br />
Main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Development of a Position Paper on public<br />
private partnership<br />
• Discussion on the forthcoming changes to<br />
the EU Waste Framework Directive<br />
• To take initiatives to develop and increase<br />
the activities of ISWA internationally in<br />
making appropriate legal representation<br />
• Monitoring EU-waste issues<br />
• Development of a Key Issue Paper on “Principles<br />
of efficient environmental legislation”<br />
Future activities will cover the further development<br />
of the papers on public private partnership and on<br />
principles of efficient environmental legislation, based<br />
on the latter the development of training material for<br />
ISWA education programmes, and cooperation with<br />
other ISWA Working Groups on waste trafficking.
Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimisation<br />
Chair: Maarten Goorhuis, The Netherlands<br />
Vice Chair: Björn Appelqvist, Denmark<br />
Working Group on Hazardous Wastes<br />
Chair: Jean Paul Léglise, France<br />
Vice Chair: Paul De Bruycker, Belgium<br />
The Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimisation<br />
addresses the reduction in the generation of solid waste,<br />
recycling of materials, separation, processing and marketing<br />
of materials removed from the solid waste stream.<br />
The Working Groups main objectives are:<br />
• To share information on institutional, technological,<br />
economic and environmental matters concerning<br />
resource management, recycling, waste minimisation<br />
currently in practice.<br />
• To encourage, conduct and share the results of<br />
research and development activities within the<br />
field of resource management, recycling and waste<br />
minimisation.<br />
Main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Development of a Position Paper on<br />
Waste Trafficking<br />
• Organisation of ISWA Beacon Conference<br />
on Waste Prevention and Recycling<br />
• Development of an ISWA Key Issue Paper<br />
on Waste Prevention, Waste Minimisation<br />
and Resource Management<br />
• Waste prevention, reuse and innovative<br />
recycling projects in WG member countries<br />
• Development of internal guidelines for<br />
waste prevention and recycling at ISWA events<br />
Looking forward, the Working Group will be busy<br />
organising the 3rd ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste<br />
Prevention and Recycling which will take place end of<br />
May 2012 in Vienna, Austria, and developing guidelines<br />
for sustainable ISWA events.<br />
The Working Group’s interests include the sound<br />
management of hazardous wastes from both industrial<br />
and household sources, and the remediation of hazardous<br />
waste sites resulting from unacceptable hazardous<br />
wastes management practices. In carrying out its programmes,<br />
WG members strive to serve the interests<br />
of hazardous waste management professionals in their<br />
respective countries and world-wide.<br />
The WGs main objectives are:<br />
• to promote the cost-effective, environmentally<br />
safe management of hazardous wastes in<br />
member- and developing countries<br />
• to develop, co-ordinate, and disseminate timely<br />
information on institutional, technological,<br />
economic, environmental, research and legal<br />
developments in the field of hazardous waste<br />
management and remediation<br />
The main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Acquiring funding to update the Training<br />
Resource Pack for hazardous waste management<br />
in developing economies<br />
• Planning of a workshop on the sustainable<br />
management of hazardous waste, to be held<br />
in Belgium in October 2011<br />
• Revitalising and attracting new members<br />
to the Working Group<br />
• Supporting the ISWA/UNHABITAT project<br />
to train 60 Iraqi trainees in hazardous waste.<br />
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Looking forward, the main goal of the WG is to foster a<br />
closer cooperation with the Basel Convention and continue<br />
the promotion of the safe and effective management<br />
of hazardous waste, particularly in developing<br />
countries.
Working Group on Collection and<br />
Transportation Technology<br />
Chair: Theo Lemmen, The Netherlands<br />
(until June 2011, currently vacant)<br />
Vice Chair: vacant<br />
Working Group on Biological Treatment of Waste<br />
Chair: Enzo Favoino, Italy<br />
Vice Chair: Boris Efremenko, France<br />
The purpose of the Working Group on Collection and<br />
Transportation Technology is to serve as the principal<br />
resource to ISWA in the field of collection and transportation<br />
technology of solid waste. The Working<br />
Group addresses the storage, collection, transfer and<br />
transportation of solid waste.<br />
The Working Groups main objectives are:<br />
• to share information on institutional, technological,<br />
economic and environmental matters concerning<br />
collection and transportation technologies currently<br />
in practice<br />
• to encourage, conduct and share the results of<br />
research and development activities within the<br />
field of waste collection and transportation<br />
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Main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Collection methods<br />
• Fuel Economy in Waste Collection Trucks<br />
• Waste transportation between cities<br />
• Costs of waste collection services<br />
• Standardisation of containers<br />
• Colours in waste management and recycling<br />
• Country Reports on the development within<br />
waste collection<br />
• Following the development of the CEN<br />
Standards for vehicles and waste containers<br />
Future activities will cover the investigation of current<br />
collection and transportation methods as well as trends<br />
and challenges in waste collection in Europe and other<br />
countries. The aim is to publish the results to support the<br />
introduction or development of waste collection schemes.<br />
The Working Group addresses the biological treatment<br />
of the organic fraction of solid waste through aerobic<br />
and anaerobic decomposition processes, including related<br />
instruments (e.g. separate collection, odour management)<br />
and destiny of outputs (quality, application and marketing<br />
of products). It also covers Mechanical-Biological Treatment<br />
(MBT), i.e. the application of biological treatment<br />
to mixed (or residual) waste in order to reduce its fermentability<br />
prior to landfilling, recover further amounts of<br />
materials before final disposal and improve conditions<br />
for energy recovery. The WG has also been mandated<br />
to consider issues pertaining to biological treatment of<br />
sludge (composting and anaerobic digestion) and its<br />
application in agriculture.<br />
The WGs main objectives are:<br />
• to share information on institutional, technological,<br />
economic and environmental matters concerning<br />
biological waste treatment currently in practice<br />
• to encourage, conduct and share the results of<br />
research and development activities within the<br />
field of biological waste treatment<br />
• to define – upon agreement with the Board and<br />
STC – positions to try and influence, through<br />
provision of science-based views and information,<br />
ongoing developments in relevant legislation, with<br />
reference e.g. to waste management, soil management,<br />
climate change, and other issues pertaining<br />
to management of organic waste.
Main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• follow the development of “end-of-waste criteria”<br />
and when compost is no longer considered as<br />
a waste<br />
• preparation of a key issue paper on Food waste<br />
• gather global information on Sludge and Digestate<br />
• Climate change and biological treatment<br />
• A joint workshop with the Chartered Institute of<br />
Waste Management Special Interest Group on<br />
Biological Waste.<br />
• Preparation of a session on Biological Treatment<br />
of Waste for the ISWA World Congress in Florence,<br />
Italy<br />
• The seeking of funding and preparation for<br />
European regional Biowaste workshops.<br />
Looking forward and bolstered with funding provided<br />
under the ISWA Project Grant, the WG on Biological<br />
Treatment of Waste will be busy organizing workshops<br />
around Europe to help EU States meet the 2016/2020 EU<br />
Landfill Directive diversion targets for Biowaste.<br />
Working Group on Climate Change and<br />
Waste Management<br />
Chair: Gary Crawford, France<br />
The Working Group, recognising that Climate Change is<br />
one of the most important global environmental issues<br />
facing our planet, advocates that the waste sector has<br />
a very important role to play. The Waste Sector has the<br />
option to be a net GHG reducer and many actions on<br />
how to achieve this have already been identified by the<br />
WGs predecessor, the Task Force on Climate Change.<br />
The WG continues on from where the Task Force stopped.<br />
The WG on Climate Change and Waste Management is<br />
focused inter alia on conveying the message that<br />
sustainable waste management and recycling should<br />
be included in future international agreements and<br />
declarations – including National Appropriate Mitigation<br />
Actions (NAMAs); extension of current Kyoto project<br />
mechanisms; new market mechanisms; sector<br />
approaches; access to funding etc.<br />
Main discussions and activities in 2010/2011 were:<br />
• Establishing members for the WG<br />
• Developing contacts<br />
• Seeking of funding to promote the waste<br />
sector’s contribution to meeting climate<br />
change objectives.<br />
The WG has recently been awarded funding through<br />
the ISWA Project Grant and future activities will focus<br />
on promoting its strong messages on how the waste<br />
sector can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas<br />
emissions and should therefore be considered and<br />
included in the mitigation action plans being developed<br />
by countries, regions, and cities.<br />
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3.4 Task Forces<br />
Task Forces are established to handle special new<br />
challenges identified by the Board which require expert<br />
and concentrated attention which cannot be provided<br />
by a Working Group. The Task Forces provide a means for<br />
ISWA to obtain specialised information to assist ISWA<br />
in policy and programme determination. Task Forces are<br />
established for a specific purpose and assignment, exist<br />
for a limited time, are administered by the STC, and are<br />
disbanded when their objective is completed.<br />
Currently there are two Task Forces active, one on<br />
Globalisation and one Science:<br />
Task Force on Science<br />
In ISWA’s bid to recognize the importance of and<br />
strengthen academic participation in ISWA, a new Task<br />
Force on Science (TFS) has been created. ISWA already<br />
connects with the scientific community through its<br />
journal of Waste Management & Research which belongs<br />
to the oldest and most renowned international<br />
journals (existing since 1983) on waste management.<br />
ISWA also recognises that there are famous and well<br />
placed academics that are already working with ISWA,<br />
providing substantial scientific value and support to<br />
ISWA’s activities.<br />
as a mean to prevent environmental degradation<br />
from improper waste management activities,<br />
• propose a framework to address waste trafficking<br />
and measures and policies for reduction and<br />
prevention of it, and<br />
• highlight successes as well as failures of<br />
international aid and cooperation and thus<br />
provide conclusions regarding its utilization.<br />
Overall, the project will demonstrate the opportunity<br />
as well as the threats that globalization poses to waste<br />
management and create a conceptual framework for<br />
a more successful adaptation of them in future plans<br />
and activities.<br />
To achieve these aims the TFGWM has identified four<br />
deliverables and has already made some significant<br />
progress, such as holding a special experts workshop<br />
on the integration of the informal and formal sectors<br />
in Buenos Aires in June and the preparation of a key<br />
issue paper on Waste Trafficking.<br />
The TFGWM hopes to have completed its actions by<br />
around June 2013.<br />
The TFS is working on an action plan that will allow<br />
ISWA to further utilize its strengths and opportunities<br />
within the scientific community. The TFS aims to create<br />
a new and more attractive framework for academics<br />
participation to ISWA, to exploit further the academic<br />
resources already available through ISWA, and to create<br />
better conditions for the required innovative symbiosis<br />
between market and scientific developments.<br />
It is planned that the activities of the TFS should be<br />
completed in 2011.<br />
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Task Force on Globalisation and Waste Management<br />
The globalisation of waste is a major concern for ISWA<br />
since it is one of the major challenges for the long-term<br />
sustainability of waste management. Recognising that<br />
Globalisation creates substantial changes and brings new<br />
unprecedented challenges for Solid Waste Management,<br />
ISWA established a Task Force (TFGWM) in September<br />
2010. The TFGWM aims to:<br />
• promote and raise awareness of the new challenges<br />
put by globalization to waste management practices<br />
and planning,<br />
• examine the necessity for, and if appropriate to<br />
develop, a “road - map” towards substantial improvements<br />
to waste management worldwide,
3.5. EU Committee<br />
In follow-up to an action proposed in a former General<br />
Assembly, a meeting was held in Brussels on 6 June 2011,<br />
to discuss the form and structure of an ISWA European<br />
Network/Committee.<br />
The outcome of the meeting was that such a committee<br />
shall be established to focus on the exchange of good<br />
practice between current EU members, recent and<br />
aspiring accession states; which will seek to acquire new<br />
national and organisation members and establish closer<br />
working relationships with the Commission.<br />
The former ISWA Presidents Håkan Rylander and<br />
Jean-Paul Leglise have volunteered to lead this committee.<br />
3.6. Projects 2010/2011<br />
3.6.1. Waste and Climate Change Lobbying Action Plan<br />
Throughout the last years, mitigation of climate change<br />
has been a priority topic for ISWA. In 2007 ISWA decided<br />
to establish a Task Force to address this issue, two years<br />
later an ISWA White Paper on Waste and Climate Change<br />
was released.<br />
The ISWA White Paper on Waste and Climate Change<br />
has eight key messages regarding how to reduce GHG<br />
emissions by targeted waste management, and five<br />
commitments by ISWA to make the potential reduction of<br />
GHG emissions come true on a global scale. In essence,<br />
waste management can change from being a net GHG<br />
emission source to become a major net saver of GHG<br />
emissions resulting from actions as described in the key<br />
messages stated in the ISWA White Paper (can be downloaded<br />
for free at www.iswa.org).<br />
Moreover it has been proven by a magnitude of studies<br />
that the very act of waste management and recycling<br />
has the potential to reduce GHG emissions by at least<br />
20 % in developed countries, with even more impact<br />
possible in the rest of the world. Since the technology is<br />
proven and easily accessible, waste management is an<br />
essential and very efficient tool that offers tremendous<br />
climate change benefits.<br />
The meeting on the establishment of an ISWA European<br />
Committee was followed by a workshop on “The Future<br />
of Waste Management and Climate Change in Europe“,<br />
which featured 12 speakers from ISWA and from partner<br />
organisations.<br />
This workshop provided a great opportunity for the<br />
sharing of knowledge and experience on key topics, such<br />
as Climate Change and the Illegal Shipment of Waste,<br />
between interested parties from ISWA and the European<br />
Community. Such an event is likely to be a part of future<br />
meetings of the ISWA EU Committee.<br />
These facts are two of the key messages of a<br />
comprehensive lobbying action plan ISWA developed<br />
and started to implement in 2010 and 2011. ISWA’s<br />
lobbying activities aim to secure available climate funds<br />
for investments in sustainable waste management and<br />
recycling. As a prerequisite for reaching that target<br />
“waste management and recycling” must be mentioned<br />
as an area of action in the final UNFCCC (United Nations<br />
Framework Convention on Climate Change) conference<br />
documents – which is yet to be achieved.<br />
ISWA holds the official status as an Observer Organization<br />
of the UNFCCC. As part of the lobbying action plan<br />
activities, ISWA delegations attended several UNFCCC<br />
conferences, including COP16 (16th Conference of the<br />
Parties in Cancun in December 2010), endeavouring to<br />
make sustainable waste management – and its positive<br />
impact on our climate - an issue in the UNFCCC process.<br />
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An ISWA delegation will also attend this year’s most<br />
important UNFCCC event: COP17 which will take place<br />
at the end of 2011 in Durban, South Africa. For the crucial<br />
phase in the run-up to this event ISWA will also draw
on the services of a well-versed professional lobbyist.<br />
In more detail, ISWA’s short- and mid-term goals are:<br />
• The final declarations of the UN-summit on<br />
climate change in Durban, must make reference<br />
to a sectoral mechanism on waste management<br />
and recycling.<br />
• Waste management and recycling should be an<br />
essential part in any enhanced action toward<br />
mitigating climate change.<br />
• Waste management and recycling should also a<br />
formal part of national measuring, reporting and<br />
verification (MRV).<br />
• Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA)<br />
plans should contain actions on waste management<br />
and recycling.<br />
Through its Working Group on Waste and Climate<br />
Change, ISWA is prepared to provide input on NAMAs<br />
and sectoral mechanisms to countries negotiating and<br />
implementing the UNFCCC-agreements.<br />
The Knowledge Base strives to cover all relevant topics<br />
of solid waste management from all over the world and<br />
is regularly updated. So far the Knowledge Base has<br />
proven to be quite popular receiving approximately<br />
5,000 visitors per month.<br />
If you have any documents you would like to share with<br />
other members please forward them to the ISWA General<br />
Secretariat.<br />
3.6.3. TAP Centre Singapore<br />
Last year ISWA inked a Memorandum of Understanding<br />
with the Waste Management and Recycling Association<br />
of Singapore (WMRAS) and the National Environment<br />
Agency (NEA) to establish and run a Training, Advisory &<br />
Promotion (TAP) Centre for waste management in<br />
Singapore. Through this agreement ISWA, WMRAS and<br />
NEA demonstrated their commitment of promoting<br />
sustainable waste management and optimising the<br />
value of waste as a resource in Singapore and the region.<br />
If you would like to know more about our activities in<br />
this field or if you would like to contribute to reaching<br />
the above mentioned targets please contact us at<br />
iswa@iswa.org.<br />
3.6.2. Knowledge base<br />
The ISWA Knowledge Base has been developed and<br />
implemented successfully over the last one and a half<br />
years to upgrade ISWA’s technical profile. It has been up<br />
and running online since April 2011.<br />
The Knowledge Base provides ISWA members with<br />
convenient and easy online access to an extensive source<br />
of scientific waste management related documents -<br />
currently more than 850. These documents include both<br />
ISWA and non-ISWA material such as Conference and<br />
Workshop Proceedings, Reports, Training Resources,<br />
Papers, Case Studies and Online Resources.<br />
2011 TAP Centre Workshop<br />
The TAP centre aims to serve ISWA’s members, stakeholders<br />
and collaborators in the Asia/Pacific region. The office<br />
serves as the Asian hub for supporting ISWA member<br />
activities, facilitating ISWA programs and promoting<br />
ISWA membership, enabling ISWA to connect more<br />
effectively with the Asian waste community and assist<br />
in the development of sustainable waste management<br />
in South East Asia.<br />
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In June 2011 the first workshop organised by the TAP<br />
Centre took place in Singapore. There was a good<br />
attendance of 200 participants from Singapore, India,<br />
Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea. Overall, there was a very<br />
good response to this first TAP Centre event. As a future<br />
activity a new conference and exhibition has been announced<br />
at the workshop: WasteMET Asia 2012 – <strong>WASTE</strong><br />
Management & Environmental Technology will run from<br />
2 to 5 July 2012. This event will be co-located with World<br />
Cities Summit (WCS) and Singapore International Water<br />
Week (SIWW).
3.6.4. ISWA Project Grant<br />
The City of Vienna, pursuant to an agreement made<br />
with ISWA, now grants a specified budget each year<br />
in order for ISWA to:<br />
• strengthen its technical and scientific profile<br />
• promote and upgrade its international<br />
recognition and acceptance<br />
• develop a global and country - level presence<br />
• increase its influence with decision-makers<br />
regarding Solid Waste Management issues.<br />
The ISWA Board decided that the best utilisation of this<br />
budget would be via the administration of an ISWA<br />
Project Grant, open to proposals from ISWA members<br />
(National, Individual or Organisation members) or<br />
ISWA entities (e.g. GS, WGs, STC, Board or RDNs).<br />
The first call for proposals opened in November 2010 and<br />
closed 31 January 2011. A total of 33 project applications<br />
were received, many of which were of a very high quality,<br />
making the final selection a challenging task. A total<br />
funding amount of €1,595,974 was requested from ISWA<br />
with an additional €1,374,752 offered through partner<br />
co-financing contributions. The requested amount of<br />
funding for projects, was therefore remarkably more than<br />
the allocated budget; another challenge for the grant<br />
evaluation committee.<br />
Proposals were received from a wide scope of countries,<br />
such as Nigeria, Denmark, Brazil, Singapore, Argentina,<br />
Netherlands, Portugal and from almost all of ISWA<br />
member categories and entities. The applications covered<br />
many aspects of Waste Management, the most popular<br />
themes being Biological Treatment of Waste, Recycling<br />
& Waste Minimisation, Energy Recovery and Climate<br />
Change.<br />
After an extensive decision making process 12 projects<br />
were selected (see table below), half of these projects<br />
will begin in 2011 and the remaining in 2012. As individual<br />
projects can run for a maximum of 3 years the funding<br />
period spans from 2011 through to 2014.<br />
PROJECT TITLE<br />
Establishing a Landfill Training and Research Centre<br />
to Promote better Operation of Landfills in Indonesia<br />
The Road to Durban: Promoting the waste sector’s<br />
contribution to meeting climate change objectives<br />
ISWA Guidelines – Waste-to-Energy in Transitional<br />
Countries<br />
Regional Biowaste Workshops - Implementation of<br />
Sustainable Biowaste Management and Latest EU Policies<br />
Guidelines for the Implementation of Successful<br />
Sustainable Waste Management Plans<br />
Customizing Waste Management Fees: Workshops<br />
in Eastern and South Eastern Europe<br />
Africa Sustainable Waste Management- Beacon<br />
Conference, Luanda, Angola<br />
International Waste Manager Programme in Argentina,<br />
Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay<br />
The Blue Book v2<br />
ISWA Product Chain Management<br />
Hazardous Waste Training Resource Pack for<br />
developing countries<br />
Opportunities and barriers of Recycling in Balkan,<br />
Middle East and Mediterranean Countries”<br />
ORGANISATION<br />
Institute for Water Quality, Resources and Waste<br />
Management, Vienna, University of Technology, Austria<br />
ISWA Working Group on Climate Change<br />
ISWA Working Group on Energy Recovery<br />
ISWA Working Group on Biological Treatment of Waste<br />
ABRELPE - Associação Brasileira de Empresas de Limpeza<br />
Pública e Resíduos Especiais -Brazil<br />
Technisches Büro HAUER Umweltwirtschaft GmbH (TBH)<br />
APESB – Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Portuguese<br />
Association<br />
ARS – Asociación para el Estudio de los<br />
Residuos Sólidos -Argentina<br />
ISWA Working Group on Healthcare waste<br />
Working Group on Recycling & Waste Management/<br />
NVRD-Netherlands<br />
ISWA Working Group on Hazardous Waste<br />
HSWMA -Greece & SeSWA -Serbia<br />
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3.6.5. Training Course Programme ISWA/UN-Habitat<br />
Intensifying the Cooperation with other International<br />
Organisations was an important goal ISWA set itself for<br />
this year. One of the projects where ISWA successfully<br />
achieved this aim was with a tailor made training<br />
course programme for Iraqi engineers, based on a<br />
cooperation agreement ISWA concluded with<br />
UN-Habitat in March 2011.<br />
In April and May 2011 the ISWA General Secretariat<br />
organised a comprehensive training course programme<br />
for the staff of Iraqi government authorities at the ISWA<br />
headquarters in Vienna.<br />
The objective of the cooperation project was to contribute<br />
to improved public health and environmental conditions<br />
in Iraqi cities by assisting the Ministry of Municipalities<br />
and Public Works and some selected Governorates<br />
with the development and implementation of new<br />
waste management policies and programmes.<br />
The project focused on providing technical assistance<br />
and enhancing the skills and capacity of the Iraqi trainees.<br />
In total sixty Iraqi engineers took this tailor made training<br />
course programme, which has been organised as a well<br />
balanced mixture of in house lessons – seven different<br />
trainers covered the whole range of different waste<br />
management issues – and site visits.<br />
Three one week training courses have been held for<br />
groups of twenty persons each, and according to the<br />
feedback of the participants and the representatives of<br />
our cooperation partner UN-Habitat it can be said that<br />
this project was a very big success.<br />
In the meantime some other organisations have already<br />
indicated interest in tailor made training course programmes<br />
made by ISWA.<br />
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3.6.6. ISWA/UNEP Balkan Flowers Project<br />
Another good example for intensified cooperation with<br />
other International Organisations whose goals and<br />
activities are related to ISWA’s is the so called “Balkan<br />
Flowers Project”:<br />
ISWA is currently in the early stages of a project in<br />
cooperation with the UNEP Regional Office for Europe,<br />
to develop an overview study of PET –plastic waste<br />
recycling in the South East Europe sub-region with a<br />
focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.<br />
The project also aims to explore future policy development<br />
and possible cooperation and exchange of knowledge<br />
and information through sub-regional collaboration<br />
in these three countries.<br />
3.6.7. ISSOWAMA Consortium Project<br />
In 2010 and 2011, as a consortium partner ISWA also<br />
cooperated with other international non-profit<br />
organisations and some universities and academic<br />
institutes on a project called ISSOWAMA – Integrated<br />
Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia Southeast.<br />
The Balkan region has a remarkably high waste generation<br />
of PET bottles compared to many other parts of Europe;<br />
which are found floating in rivers, hanging in trees and<br />
piling up in otherwise picturesque locations – sometimes<br />
looking like bizarre flowers, which explains the project<br />
title.<br />
Some key challenges need to be overcome to promote<br />
the recycling of waste in these regions, such as an inadequate<br />
waste management system, low public<br />
awareness and an undeveloped recycling sector. Croatia<br />
is leading the way forward in this region of the Balkans,<br />
with the recent implementation of promising tools that<br />
are promoting the use of refillable bottles and collection<br />
for one way packaging.<br />
Asia is one of the world’s most densely populated<br />
regions, which results in a tremendous output of solid<br />
waste, a majority of which is poorly managed or not<br />
managed at all. Rapid urbanisation in the region is<br />
creating an increasing strain on overburdened infrastructure,<br />
as well as higher demand on limited public<br />
services.<br />
ISSOWAMA was a first step to thoroughly examining<br />
Solid Waste Management issues of eight numerously<br />
populated Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Cambodia,<br />
Thailand, China, Indonesia and the Philippines. The objective<br />
of this project has been to develop a performance<br />
assessment system for integrated management scenarios,<br />
with a central focus on the integration of sustainability<br />
aspects.<br />
Throughout this project the consortium partners have<br />
investigated and gained expertise in economic and social<br />
situations in the target region, integration of low cost<br />
community managed technologies, and institutional<br />
and socio economic constraints.<br />
As a result the consortium completed local projects in<br />
South Asia, the greater Mekong Sub-region, and South<br />
East Asia which represents nearly half of the world’s<br />
population. A special issue of Waste Management<br />
World is planned to showcase the ISSOWAMA project.<br />
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3.7. Print and Online Publishing<br />
ISWA is one of the most important producers and<br />
disseminators of current, high-quality information on<br />
sustainable and professional waste management.<br />
ISWA publishes a wide range of waste management<br />
specialist literature: Books, Key Issue Papers, Technical<br />
Policy Papers, Position Papers, Reports, and two professional<br />
periodicals, which are available in print and online versions:<br />
Waste Management and Research (WM&R) is a monthly<br />
journal published under the auspices of ISWA. WM&R<br />
satisfies the growing demand for scientifically based<br />
information that can be utilised by waste management<br />
professionals in academia, government, industry,<br />
engineering, management, planning, and public health.<br />
WM&R publishes articles relating to both theory and<br />
practice of waste management and research that<br />
promote innovation and provide a bridge between<br />
academic studies and practical problems.<br />
Waste Management World (WMW) is published bimonthly<br />
by ISWA and PennWell. WMW includes the<br />
latest international waste industry news and analysis,<br />
covering waste technology and trends, plus contributions<br />
from leading global experts on waste recycling<br />
and minimisation, landfill, biowaste, waste to energy<br />
conversion and thermal treatment, transport, collection<br />
and waste policy. One issue per year incorporates the<br />
International Directory of Solid Waste Management,<br />
which lists the ISWA members, and a classified listing<br />
of waste management companies.<br />
The ISWA website has also been redesigned and upgraded<br />
with more contents (e.g. Knowledge Base, Job Exchange<br />
Platform) during the last year. ISWA company profiles<br />
have been installed on the social networks facebook<br />
and LinkedIn in 2011, both of them are connected with<br />
the ISWA website.<br />
All these measures lead to a sharp and very impressive<br />
increase of visits at www.iswa.org: from an average of<br />
less than 3,000 monthly visits in 2010 to an average of<br />
more than 12,000 visits per month in 2011.<br />
The ISWA Global E-Newsletter has been “revived” in<br />
2010 and now goes out to more than 2,500 subscribers<br />
eight times a year.<br />
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3.8. International Waste Manager<br />
Programme<br />
The ISWA International Waste Manager programme is<br />
designed to provide an internationally recognised<br />
certification for individual professional waste managers<br />
based on both academic achievements and practical<br />
work experience.<br />
is to complete an application form. On the basis of the<br />
application form being selected, the next step is to<br />
prepare a detailed personal report covering education,<br />
work experience and professional approach to waste<br />
management. This is followed by an interview and<br />
committing to the ISWA’s Code of Ethics to undertake<br />
a life-long programme of continuous professional<br />
development.<br />
Since the programme began in 2006, one hundred and<br />
eight waste professionals from 18 different countries<br />
around the world have been certified within the ISWA<br />
International Waste Manager programme.<br />
The certification is awarded at four different levels:<br />
Technical, Intermediate, Advanced, and International,<br />
depending on how applicants meet the ISWA criteria.<br />
The criteria are based on a set of key identified attributes<br />
that become more rigorous the higher the level<br />
awarded. The Technical level has been established to<br />
enable those with substantial practical experience<br />
but who lack academic qualification.<br />
The process is straightforward and very similar to the<br />
stages involved in applying for a new job. The first step<br />
The striking increase of International Waste Managers in<br />
2011 is due to the ISWA UN-Habitat Training Programme<br />
(see chapter 3.6.5.), which was attended by 58 Iraqi<br />
trainees, who on completion of the Training Course were<br />
awarded Technical Status in the IWM Programme.<br />
The number of currently registered International Waste<br />
Managers may vary from the total amount below, as not<br />
all who have been certified remain actively registered<br />
in the programme.<br />
If you are interested in becoming an International<br />
Waste Manager please view the brochure available on<br />
www.iswa.org or contact the ISWA General Secretariat.<br />
NUMBER OF <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>WASTE</strong> MANAGERS BY YEAR<br />
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 (July 31) Total<br />
Technical status – – – – 1 58 59<br />
Intermediate status – – – 7 5 – 12<br />
Advanced status 3 1 – 4 4 1 13<br />
International status 11 1 1 6 5 – 24<br />
Total 14 2 1 17 15 59 108<br />
3.9. Awards<br />
ISWA Communication Award<br />
Each year ISWA honours an excellent Waste Communication<br />
Campaign that increases public awareness and<br />
promotes sustainable waste management. The awarded<br />
campaign is recognised at the ISWA Annual Congress.<br />
The award is open for participation for both ISWA<br />
members and non-ISWA members.<br />
2011 Communication Award Winners<br />
Overall there were nine entries for this award, representing<br />
seven countries and three continents. The quality of<br />
the entries was so good that it was difficult to determine<br />
which would be the best entries from an initial scan of<br />
the entries. Fortunately the judges had clear guidelines<br />
for the judging with 9 criteria being set for each of the<br />
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entries so that they could be evaluated against each<br />
other on a uniform basis. This meant that the four judges<br />
were able to mark each of the entries against each other<br />
using these nine criteria.<br />
First place – T’aspetto fuori (Wait for you outside)<br />
This entry from the City of Prato, Italy was the clear<br />
winner overall. The judging panel were impressed by the<br />
very comprehensive approach adopted by the City to the<br />
promotion of separate collection of waste within the<br />
City, including the use of a wide variety of media. The<br />
calendar provided to every household gives details not<br />
only of the collection times but details of how to present<br />
the materials for collection and what types of material<br />
are acceptable. In addition there is guidance on how to<br />
effect waste minimisation in the household.<br />
Second place – Thank you for recycling<br />
This campaign was designed by the national packaging<br />
compliance scheme for Belgium, Fost Plus to thank citizens<br />
for their separation of household packaging waste for<br />
recycling. The campaign used a number of different ways<br />
to reinforce the good habits of separation of packaging<br />
waste items for separate collection, including posters in<br />
a number of different places, such as metro stations in<br />
Brussels, television advertising and magazine advertising.<br />
Third place – The year of glass<br />
The Non-Profit Organisation ÖKO-Pannon is the national<br />
packaging compliance scheme for Hungary that had<br />
identified that Hungary was not fulfilling its obligations<br />
for the separate collection of glass containers. Therefore<br />
it embarked on four ambitious promotional campaigns<br />
covering very different approaches to encourage the<br />
separation and collection of glass containers to ensure<br />
that every section of society could relate to the ambition<br />
of improving the collection of glass bottles.<br />
ISWA Publication Award<br />
The ISWA Publication Award has been created with the<br />
intention of honoring the author(s) of a publication,<br />
article or book which is deemed to be exceptional in its<br />
contribution to the field of solid waste management.<br />
2011 ISWA Publication Award Winners<br />
The winner of the ISWA Publication Award for 2011 is a<br />
review article by Dr Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan and his<br />
co-authors: Waihung Lo, G. Chan and Mika E. T. Sillanpää.<br />
Biological Processes for Treatment of Landfill Leachate<br />
was published in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring<br />
volume 12, pp 2032-47 in 2010.<br />
The review covers a literature survey of 188 papers published<br />
between 1976 and 2010 with a critical analysis of the<br />
technical applicability of a range of biological treatments<br />
for leachate treatment. The main techniques evaluated for<br />
their advantages and limitations are: activated sludge,<br />
sequencing batch reactors, aerated lagoons and upflow<br />
anaerobic sludge blankets. From the review no single<br />
treatment is applicable for removing recalcitrant contaminants<br />
from leachate. Therefore a combination of physical<br />
and biological techniques will be needed to provide<br />
effective leachate treatment.<br />
The second place was taken by a book Municipal Solid<br />
Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands edited<br />
by Professor P. Agamuthu based in Malaysia and<br />
Professor Masaru Tanaka based in Japan. This book<br />
shows the progress made in waste management in the<br />
World’s most economically dynamic region through<br />
a number of detailed case studies.<br />
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The third place was held by the two volume tome Solid<br />
Waste Technology and Management by Thomas H.<br />
Christensen of the Technical University of Denmark<br />
based in Copenhagen and his associates. Solid Waste<br />
Technology and Management provides a comprehensive<br />
approach to making waste management sustainable.<br />
This work builds on the research on life cycle analysis<br />
which made Thomas Christensen and his colleagues<br />
previous winners of the ISWA Publication Award in 2009.
4. Environment<br />
Through its activities ISWA minimises the environmental<br />
impacts of the global economy. The diffusion of knowhow<br />
on sustainable waste management triggers future<br />
oriented initiatives in the diverse member countries. Thus<br />
ISWA contributes to a healthy environment, to climate<br />
protection and to a sensible management of our planet’s<br />
limited resources.<br />
Nevertheless, ISWA’s activities have some negative direct<br />
environmental impacts. Especially the international<br />
conferences require energy and resources. ISWA regards<br />
these impacts as necessary initial ‘environmental investment’<br />
which will pay off manifold through the promotion<br />
and implementation of sustainable waste initiatives.<br />
Still, also the direct environmental impacts such as flights<br />
and sustainable waste management in the conference<br />
hotels need to be handled. ISWA strives to reduce these<br />
direct impacts.<br />
Sustainable events<br />
ISWA is committed to making its congresses and conferences<br />
an example of good waste- and resource management.<br />
All local hosts, co-organisers, hotels and conference<br />
venues should consider - and in the future will be obliged<br />
to consider - ISWA’s environmental standards for sustainable<br />
events.<br />
The ISWA Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimisation<br />
is in the process of elaborating internal guidelines<br />
and a new checklist for sustainable ISWA events. This new<br />
checklist will contain compulsory, desirable and optional<br />
items. It is intended to make this checklist an incorporated<br />
part of any agreement ISWA concludes with event<br />
co-organisers as soon as it is finalised and approved by<br />
the Board.<br />
The following preliminary check list titled “ISWA Standards<br />
for Sustainable Events” has been communicated to<br />
the local hosts of this year’s World Congress in Korea, and<br />
has already been taken into account – and for the most<br />
part fulfilled - at the 2011 Beacon Conference on Waste<br />
Prevention and Recycling in Vienna:<br />
Planning / Promotion<br />
• Use electronic media to reduce paper use<br />
• Offer electronic registration and promote<br />
the event electronically via website and e-mail<br />
• Use recycled paper and print on both sides<br />
• In all communications with exhibitors and<br />
contractors request that waste and packaging<br />
be reduced<br />
Travel Selection<br />
• Inform the delegates about the possibilities of<br />
Carbon Offsetting<br />
• Distance between conference venue and airport:<br />
Conference venue can be reached within 40 min via<br />
public transport; the conference programme<br />
provides a detailed description on how delegates can<br />
arrive and depart via public transport<br />
• Offer multiday traveller tickets for the duration of<br />
the conference to promote public transport use<br />
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Hotels / Conference Venue<br />
• Use or recommend hotels within walking distance<br />
of the venue and with proactive waste, water and<br />
energy management practices<br />
• Hotels and conference venues with environmental<br />
certification will be preferred<br />
• Consider venues that use as much natural light<br />
and natural ventilation as possible<br />
• Work with the venue to ensure that light and air<br />
conditioning are switched of when not in use<br />
• At the venue paper, residual waste, plastic waste and<br />
compostable waste should be collected separately<br />
• If possible decoration should be rented (e.g. potted<br />
plants instead of cut flowers); if decoration has to<br />
be bought, it should be from natural materials,<br />
flowers should be from regional market-gardens<br />
or Fair Trade certified<br />
• Reduce use of gifts, gift bags or satchels<br />
• Where appropriated limited use of imported and<br />
bottled water; use of reusable glass bottles (jugs),<br />
if possible with tap water<br />
• Use recycled paper and print on both sides<br />
• Reuse of name tags, which are collected at the<br />
end of the conference<br />
• The conference venue is barrier-free and<br />
accessible to people with handicaps<br />
Catering<br />
• Aim to reduce food miles by using local rather<br />
than imported food and beverage supplies<br />
• Include a large number of vegetarian options<br />
• One main course is made from regional and<br />
seasonal products<br />
• One main course uses organic ingredients<br />
• Request products with Fair Trade Certification<br />
(coffee, orange juice)<br />
• Beverage cans are not offered at the conference<br />
• No single-portion packaging (sugar, sweets etc.)<br />
at coffee breaks<br />
• Caterer provides reusable table cloth,<br />
crockery and cutlery<br />
Conference documents for delegates<br />
• Offer all relevant information, presentations,<br />
papers and web links via electronic media<br />
Climate protection<br />
Climate change is real and is taking effect now. In preindustrial<br />
times, the CO2-concentration in the atmosphere<br />
was about 280 ppm. Currently, Mauna Loa Observatory<br />
in Hawaii measures 392 ppm. Every year mankind adds<br />
about 2 ppm to the atmosphere. Considering human time<br />
spans these emissions are here to stay and will continue<br />
to accelerate climate change.<br />
ISWA contributes to the development of a ‘low carbon<br />
economy’. Sustainable waste management includes<br />
energy-efficient waste collection, transport and processing,<br />
energy recovery from waste and reducing the need<br />
of energy intensive resources by closing recycling loops.<br />
Compared to these aspects, the emissions caused by<br />
ISWA are minor. Nevertheless, they need to be monitored<br />
and managed.<br />
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Most CO2-emissions 1 are caused by the flights of the<br />
delegates to and from ISWA conferences. Until now, there<br />
have been two factors determining the impact on our<br />
climate: the number of delegates and the average distance<br />
the delegates need to travel. As a result, the ISWA World<br />
Congress in Singapore 2008 with a high number of delegates<br />
and long travelling distances caused about 2,150<br />
tons CO2. 2 Last year’s congress in Hamburg, which was<br />
attended by many European delegates travelling rather<br />
small distances, caused almost only one third of the<br />
emissions generated in 2008.<br />
Coffee Break at the 2011 Beacon Conference in Vienna<br />
Frankly, ISWA does not want to influence the two factors<br />
number of delegates and average distance for the sake<br />
of climate protection. ISWA strives for a high number of
delegates and it is clear that ISWA will choose conference<br />
locations all over the world in order to fulfil its mission of<br />
promoting sustainable waste management worldwide.<br />
As a consequence, the only option for reducing the climate<br />
impact – apart from finding venues which are close to<br />
international airports – is carbon offsetting: Donating a<br />
certain amount of money enables projects that save the<br />
climate by investing in renewable energy or reforestation.<br />
For this year’s congress in South Korea, ISWA has called<br />
the delegates’ attention to private offsetting. Among<br />
the vast number of possible organisations for offsetting,<br />
ISWA recommends three with high credibility: “Climate<br />
Friendly” is the preferred partner of the WWF for offsetting.<br />
“My climate” uses reliable calculations and offers good<br />
offsetting projects. “Atmosfair” has received several<br />
awards for its activities.<br />
For next year’s congress ISWA plans to include the option<br />
of voluntary carbon offsetting at the time of registration.<br />
In order to guarantee the financial support of a good<br />
project, ISWA plans to select a special climate saving<br />
project in the area of waste management such as energy<br />
use of landfill gas. This measure will decouple CO2 emissions<br />
from the number of delegates and the location of the<br />
congress.<br />
Travel Carbon Emission ISWA World Congresses 2007 – 2010<br />
2,500<br />
5.0<br />
2,158<br />
4.5<br />
Total CO2-emissions of all flights (tons CO2 equivalent)<br />
2,000<br />
1,500<br />
1,000<br />
500<br />
1,256<br />
1.8<br />
3.4<br />
1,195<br />
1.8<br />
847<br />
1.1<br />
4.0<br />
3.5<br />
3.0<br />
2.5<br />
2.0<br />
1.5<br />
1.0<br />
Carbon Emission per Delegate (tons CO2 equivalent)<br />
0.5<br />
0.0<br />
Amsterdam<br />
2007<br />
Singapore<br />
2008<br />
Lisbon<br />
2009<br />
Hamburg<br />
2010<br />
Total CO2-emissions of all flights (tons)<br />
Average CO2-emissions per delegate (tons)<br />
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1 )<br />
Each calculation mentioned in this chapter relies on carbon dioxide equivalent (CDE). For matters of simplification just the term “CO2” is used in the text.<br />
2 )<br />
The calculation is based on www.atmosfair.de. If the home city of a delegate was unknown, the calculation was based on travelling from the capital of<br />
his/her home country. For small countries with several airports a median distance was used for the calculation. Travels of delegates from the host country<br />
are only included in the flight calculation if the travelling distance is more than 600 km. All travels of delegates arriving from other countries are considered<br />
as flights except for distances below 200 km.
5. Financial Overview<br />
Annual Account 2010<br />
The results for 2010 show an overall surplus of € 44,531<br />
and exceed the budget by approximately € 8,000. This<br />
result has been achieved through optimisation measures<br />
and cost cutting actions. The external audit report on the<br />
financial statements of the year 2010 did not give rise to<br />
any objections and according to the auditor the financial<br />
statements comply with legal requirements and give a<br />
true and fair view of the assets and liabilities of ISWA and<br />
its income and expenses. Also the internal auditors certify<br />
in their report the correctness of the accounts 2010 and<br />
the result 2010.<br />
Budget 2012<br />
On the basis of the projected results for 2011, the numbers<br />
from previous years and the expected achievements we<br />
developed the Budget for the year 2012. We estimate with<br />
moderate higher income compared to the budget for 2011<br />
due to increased number of memberships and revenues<br />
from projects and other sources. The expenses in total are<br />
higher due to increased project funding, increased international<br />
presence, increased staff costs and spending for<br />
optimization measures. The budgeted overall result shows<br />
a surplus of € 13,000.<br />
Projection 2011<br />
The figures for 2011 are showing that the projected surplus<br />
will be likely around € 70,000 higher than budgeted.<br />
This favourable result is due to additional revenues from<br />
successful projects and increased membership payments.<br />
The general expenses will not exceed the budget and<br />
the extra workload caused by the projects resulted in<br />
hiring of one additional part time staff member. From the<br />
Project Grant a sum of € 131,000 is dedicated to specific<br />
projects in 2011.<br />
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AMOUNTS IN EUROS Actual 2010 Budget 2011 Approved Budget 2012 Proposed<br />
INCOME<br />
Memberships<br />
National Membership 159,933 160,000 170,000<br />
Other Membership 216,895 210,000 230,00<br />
Memberships Total 376,828 370,000 400,000<br />
Congress, Conferences, Sponsorships<br />
World Congress 32,405 40,000 40,000<br />
Other Conferences, Seminars 13,166 10,000 18,000<br />
Sponsorships 38,000 32,000 32,000<br />
Congress, Conf., Sponsor. Total 83,571 82,000 90,000<br />
Publications<br />
Waste Management World and Books 14,424 13,000 13,000<br />
Waste Management & Research 49,591 35,000 45,000<br />
Publications Total 64,015 48,000 58,000<br />
Miscellaneous Income<br />
International Waste Manager Programme 4,060 2,000 2,000<br />
Projects 26,662 10,000 35,000<br />
Miscellaneous Income Total 30,722 12,000 37,000<br />
Project Grant 300,000 300,000 306,000<br />
INCOME TOTAL 855,163 812,000 891,000<br />
EXPENSES<br />
Staff Expenses<br />
General Secretariat 310,504 426,000 482,000<br />
WMR Editor 8,065 15,000 15,000<br />
Consultants 134,601 15,000 5,000<br />
Staff Expenses Total 453,170 456,000 502,000<br />
Printing, Marketing and IWM<br />
International Waste Manager Programme 8,309 5,000 5,000<br />
Books 2,000 1,000<br />
Other Printing, Marketing materials 41,584 14,500 15,500<br />
Printing, Marketing and IWM Total 49,893 21,500 21,500<br />
Project, Sponsoring and Funding<br />
Regional Development Networks and TAP 20,555 36,000 36,000<br />
Task Force 5,000<br />
Studies 15,000 5,000<br />
GS Projects 38,000<br />
Project Grant 120,000 135,000<br />
STC work programme 10,000<br />
Representation 5,000 5,000<br />
Other 31,480 5,000 5,000<br />
Projects Total 52,035 196,000 224,000<br />
Miscellaneous Expenses<br />
Publications Award 5,000 5,000 2,500<br />
Office operations, supplies 6,440 16,000 17,000<br />
Computer Equipment, services 10,136 10,000 10,000<br />
Postage & Freight 2,127 8,000 5,000<br />
Travel General Secretariat 75,624 31,500 60,000<br />
Travel expenses President 5,345 7,000 7,000<br />
Bank Charges 4,037 5,000 5,000<br />
Representation 3,989 10,000 10,000<br />
Legal 21,702 5,000 5,000<br />
Auditing 5,000 5,000<br />
Other 128,416 5,000 5,000<br />
Miscellaneous Expenses Total 262,819 107,500 131,500<br />
EXPENSES TOTAL 817,917 781,000 879,000<br />
Net Before Financial Items 37,219 31,000 12,000<br />
Financial Items (Interest) 7,312 1,000 1,000<br />
RESULT (TO EQUITY CAPITAL) 44,531 32,000 13,000<br />
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6. National Members<br />
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The ISWA National Members are non-profit, waste management<br />
associations representing the waste management<br />
industry in a particular country. Generally, these associations<br />
have memberships from both the private and public<br />
sectors of employment. Based on ISWA regulations, the<br />
National Members are the only memberships allowed to<br />
vote at the General Assembly and thus, they constitute<br />
the governing body of ISWA.<br />
As per 31st July 2011 ISWA has got 36 National Members,<br />
thereof 3 are Incoming National Members:<br />
• Argentina, ARS Asociación para el Estudio de<br />
Residuos Sólidos, www.ars.org.ar<br />
• Australia, WMAA Waste Management Association<br />
of Australia, www.wmaa.asn.au<br />
• Austria, ISWA Austria, www.iswa.at<br />
• Belgium, INTERAFVAL, www.vvsg.be<br />
• Brazil, ABRELPE Associação Brasileira de Empresas de<br />
Limpeza Pública e Resíduos Especiais,<br />
www.abrelpe.org.br<br />
• Canada, SWANA (CAN) Solid Waste Association of<br />
North America, www.swana.org<br />
• China, CAUES China Association of Urban<br />
Environmental Sanitation, www.caues.org<br />
• Denmark, DAKOFA, www.dakofa.dk<br />
• Finland, YYL, www.ymparistoyritykset.fi<br />
• France, ASTEE, www.astee.org<br />
• Germany, VKU e. V. - Abfallwirtschaft und<br />
Stadtreinigung VKS, www.vksimvku.de<br />
• Greece, HSWMA Hellenic Solid Waste Management<br />
Association, www.eedsa.gr<br />
• Hungary, Hungarian National Committee,<br />
www.fkf.hu<br />
• Iceland, FENUR, www.fenur.is<br />
• Israel, Dan Region Association of Towns - Sanitation &<br />
Waste Disposal, www.hiriya.co.il<br />
• Italy, ATIA-ISWA Italia, www.atiaiswa.it<br />
• Japan, JWMA Japan Waste Management Association,<br />
www.jwma-tokyo.or.jp<br />
• Latvia, LASA Waste Management Association of<br />
Latvia, www.lasa.lv<br />
• Netherlands, N.V.R.D., www.nvrd.nl<br />
• New Zealand, WasteMINZ, www.wasteminz.org.nz<br />
• Nigeria, WAMASON Wastes Management Society of<br />
Nigeria, www.wamason.org<br />
• Norway, Avfall Norge, www.avfallnorge.no<br />
• Portugal, APESB, www.apesb.org<br />
• Romania, ARS Romanian Association of Solid Waste<br />
Management, www.salubritatea.ro<br />
• Serbia, SeSWA Serbian Solid Waste Association,<br />
www.seswa-srbija.com<br />
• Singapore, WMRAS Waste Managment and Recycling<br />
Association of Singapore, www.wmras.org.sg<br />
• South Korea, KSWM Korea Society of Waste<br />
Management, www.kswm.or.kr<br />
• Spain, ATEGRUS, www.ategrus.org<br />
• Sweden, Avfall Sverige, www.avfallsverige.se<br />
• Switzerland, ISWA-Switzerland Secretariat<br />
• Turkey, Turkish National Committee on Solid Wastes,<br />
www.kakad.boun.edu.tr<br />
• United Kingdom, CIWM The Chartered Institution<br />
of Waste Management, www.ciwm.co.uk<br />
• United States, SWANA (USA) Solid Waste Association<br />
of North America, www.swana.org<br />
Incoming National Members<br />
Incoming National Members are national associations<br />
that are in the process of establishing an organisation<br />
that will fulfill the requirements for National Members.<br />
Incoming National Members have reduced fees for up<br />
to a 4-year period while they are establishing the full<br />
National Membership.<br />
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, CENER21 Center for Energy,<br />
Environment and Resources, www.cener21.ba<br />
• India, NSWAI Centre for Waste Management,<br />
Sathyabama University, www.nswai.com<br />
• Malaysia, WMAM Waste Management Association<br />
of Malaysia, www.wmam.org
7. Gold Members<br />
ISWA Gold Members and ISWA Silver Members are public<br />
or private organisations and companies working in or<br />
associated with the field of waste management. ISWA<br />
appreciates the support of all its Gold and Silver member<br />
organisations and is happy to have eight new Gold<br />
Members this year. Below you will find the full listing of<br />
all Gold Members for 2011 (status 31/07/2011).<br />
To learn more about the multitude of benefits which<br />
come with an ISWA Gold or Silver Membership please<br />
visit our website www.iswa.org.<br />
• Afval Energie Bedrijf, Netherlands,<br />
www.afvalenergiebedrijf.nl<br />
• AMARSUL- Valorizacão e Tratamento de<br />
Resíduos Sólidos, Portugal, www.amarsul.pt<br />
• ANFIA SERVICE s.r.l., Italy, www.anfia.it<br />
• ANTONIO MATACHANA, S.A., Spain,<br />
www.matachana.com<br />
• ARA AG, Austria, www.ara.at<br />
• ASM Prato, Italy, www.asmprato.it<br />
• BRa Benito Roggio ambiental, Argentina,<br />
www.bra.com.ar<br />
• Catanzaro Costruzioni srl, Italy,<br />
www.catanzarocostruzioni.it<br />
• CEAMSE, Argentina, www.ceamse.gov.ar<br />
• Consorzio italiano Compostatori, Italy,<br />
www.compost.it<br />
• Corepla, Italy, www.corepla.it<br />
• EGF-Empresa Geral do Fomento S.A., Portugal,<br />
www.egf.pt<br />
• ENVIRON <strong>ASSOCIATION</strong>, Romania, www.environ.ro<br />
• EPEM S.A., Greece, www.epem.gr<br />
• ERA Eco-Rom Ambalaje, Romania,<br />
www.ecoromambalaje.ro<br />
• Eversheds LLP, United Kingdom, www.eversheds.com<br />
• Federambiente, Italy, www.federambiente.it<br />
• FISE -Assoambiente, Italy, www.fise.org<br />
• Fost Plus asbl, Belgium, www.fostplus.be<br />
• Hitachi Zosen Inova AG, Switzerland,<br />
www.hz-inova.com<br />
• KHS COMMUNAL HYGIENE PUBLIC ENTERPRISE –<br />
Skopje, Macedonia, www.khigiena.com.mk<br />
• KSZGYSZ Association of Environmental Enterprises,<br />
Hungary, www.kszgysz.hu<br />
• LOCANTY COM SERVICOS LTDA, Brazil,<br />
www.locanty.com.br<br />
• MA48 City of Vienna, Austria,<br />
www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/ma48/<br />
• MONTELLO S.p.A., Italy, www.montello-spa.it<br />
• Mosca Grupo Nacional De Servicos, Brazil,<br />
www.grupo-mosca.com.br<br />
• Municipal Habitation Cleansing and<br />
Environment Co Ltd, Hungary, www.ftszv.hu<br />
• MWH UK Ltd., United Kingdom,<br />
www.mwhglobal.com<br />
• NSR Nordvästra Skånes Renhållnings AB, Sweden,<br />
www.nsr.se<br />
• Odense Waste Management Company, Denmark,<br />
www.odensewaste.com<br />
• OPDS Organismo Provincial para el Desarrollo<br />
Sostenible, Argentina, www.opds.gba.gov.ar<br />
• Österreichischer Städtebund, Austria,<br />
www.staedtebund.gv.at<br />
• ÖWAV Österreichischer Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaftsverband,<br />
Austria, www.oewav.at<br />
• PROTEC Technical Services Co., Qatar,<br />
www.protecind.com<br />
• PT. Saka Technology Indonesia, Indonesia,<br />
www.sakatec.com<br />
• R98 Renholdningsselskabet af 1898,<br />
Denmark, www.R98.dk<br />
• RAMBØLL, Denmark, www.ramboll.com<br />
• Renova, Sweden, www.renova.se<br />
• Sanypick, Spain, www.sanypick.com<br />
• SIBICO International Ltd., Russia, www.sibico.com<br />
• SITA, France, www.sita.fr<br />
• SLR Consulting Limited, United Kingdom,<br />
www.slrconsulting.com<br />
• Sudokwon Landfill site Management Corp.,<br />
South Korea, www.slc.or.kr<br />
• SYSAV, Sweden, www.sysav.se<br />
• TBF+Partner AG, Consulting Engineers, Switzerland,<br />
www.tbf.ch<br />
• Trisoplast Mineral Liners International BV,<br />
Netherlands, www.trisoplast.nl<br />
• UCLan CWM University of Central Lancashire,<br />
Centre for Waste Management, United Kingdom,<br />
www.uclan.ac.uk/cwm<br />
• Veolia Propreté, France, www.veolia-proprete.com<br />
• Vestforbrænding I/S, Denmark, www.vestfor.dk<br />
• VINCI ENVIRONNEMENT, France,<br />
www.vinci-environnement.com<br />
• Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., United States,<br />
www.wheelabratortechnologies.com<br />
• Work of the Public Sanitation Association,<br />
Hungary, www.koztegy.hu<br />
• Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Ghana,<br />
www.zoomlionghana.com<br />
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8. Sponsors<br />
As an ISWA sponsor, your company or organisation will<br />
receive excellent exposure to global waste managers<br />
and decision-makers. Exposure comes in many forms:<br />
business contacts, introductions to suppliers and buyers,<br />
conference presentation slots, exhibition halls, sharing<br />
of the latest research and applied technologies,<br />
legislative developments, and more.<br />
ISWA is where you need to be as the waste industry<br />
undergoes some of the most significant changes ever<br />
seen in terms of populations requiring service, and the<br />
quantity of solid wastes and recyclable materials to<br />
be managed.<br />
Your company or organisation, as an ISWA sponsor,<br />
will have the opportunity to improve its international<br />
network, compare business development results, and<br />
gain market share in targeted areas and global regions.<br />
Sponsorship categories include Main Sponsor, Annual<br />
Report Sponsor and Web Site Sponsor.<br />
For more information on ISWA‘s different sponsorship<br />
possibilities and benefits, please contact the ISWA General<br />
Secretariat.<br />
ISWA Main Sponsors 2011<br />
The contributions of the Main Sponsors are crucial to<br />
ISWA. With them ISWA is able to reach its objectives with<br />
more impact and more sustainability. Often the assistance<br />
of ISWA’s Main Sponsors goes beyond financial help and<br />
evolves into mutual partnerships to the benefit of the<br />
work towards ISWA’s mission - to promote and develop<br />
sustainable waste management worldwide.<br />
ISWA would like therefore to give special thanks to the<br />
Main Sponsors of 2011:<br />
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Annual Report Sponsors 2011<br />
ISWA would also like to give special thanks to the sponsors of this Report:
About the Report<br />
ISWA’s mission is to promote sustainable waste<br />
management. The ISWA Report 2011 provides a<br />
comprehensive summary of the organisation’s<br />
activities made towards fulfilling its mission during<br />
the year 2010 and the first half of the year 2011.<br />
Many of the indicators given in this report cover a<br />
time span of at least three years in order to allow the<br />
interpretation of trends. Furthermore the report gives<br />
an overview on the organisational structure, financial<br />
aspects and direct environmental impacts. Thus the<br />
present report considers various elements of<br />
sustainability reporting.<br />
ISWA publishes such a report each year. The report is<br />
spread among the delegates of the ISWA World Congresses<br />
and Beacon Conferences, ISWA members,<br />
possible future members and further interested persons.<br />
For questions concerning the report please contact:<br />
Gerfried Habenicht<br />
Communications Manager<br />
International Solid Waste Association<br />
ISWA General Secretariat<br />
Auerspergstrasse 15/41<br />
A-1080 Vienna, Austria<br />
E-Mail: ghabenicht@iswa.org<br />
For more information on ISWA, see www.iswa.org<br />
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ISWA General Secretariat<br />
Auerspergstrasse 15/41, A-1080 Vienna, Austria<br />
iswa@iswa.org, www.iswa.org