Information about the World Solid Waste Congress 2012 is now available at http://www.iswa2012.org/.
The congress will take place in Florence – it should be Naples! – from Monday September 17th to Wednesday September 19th 2012. There is presently a call for abstracts.
Themes will include:
- Climate change and waste management
- Zero waste and waste prevention policies
- International waste trade
- Economically developing countries
- Specific waste crises
- Recycling of specific waste streams and final residue management
- Management and impact of urban hygiene in cities
A current Call for Abstracts invited submissions on the following topics:
- Challenges and limits of recycling
- Naples – the never ending emergency
- Aftercare landfills and dump sites
- Managing waste in historic city centers with high flows of tourists
- Waste prevention
- Managing waste in disaster situations
- Hazardous waste management
- Ibero-American session
- Energy recovery
- Managing healthcare waste
- Street cleaning and urban decor
- Biological treatment of waste and anaerobic digestion
- Recycling and resource recovery
- Communication and social issues
- Recycling of electrical and electronic waste
- The new national system for management of used tyres
- Experiences and problems within Middle East and North African countries
- Climate change and waste
- Technologies and experiences of anaerobic digestion
- Waste management in Nordic countries
- Tuscany – waste management planning in Tuscany