INTERNATIONAL SOLID WASTE ASSOCIATION - Denkstatt
INTERNATIONAL SOLID WASTE ASSOCIATION - Denkstatt
INTERNATIONAL SOLID WASTE ASSOCIATION - Denkstatt
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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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