ISWA White Paper on Waste and Climate Change released

ISWA's Task Force on GHG has prepared an extensive report on the impact of waste management on greenhouse gas emissions. The white paper includes an inventory of the current practices , actual GHG emissions and potential carbon dioxide emission reductions. The report is the result of continuous work from the ISWA Task Force on GHG and aims at presenting sustainable waste management as an easy and effective way to mitigate GHG emissions not only in developed countries but also in developing economies.   The ISWA White Paper on GHG can be downloaded here.

 

ISWA World Conference 15th - 18th of November 2010 Hamburg, Germany

Urban Development  and Sustainability
– a major Challenge for Waste Management in the 21st Century

First Call for Papers (Abstracts)

We invite all – scientists; technical experts; managers; politicians; members of the cities, counties and ministries; students; ecologists; members of NGOs; engineers… In short: all those people, who are interested to broaden their knowledge about sustainability within the context of the Congress Program - to participate actively at this event with their presentation.

The Preliminary Program offers many topics to be dealt with. But it is only a preliminary program! If you intend to give a presentation on a topic, that is – until now – not part of the program, but should be covered in the program – do not hesitate to make your proposal. But – please - do so within the procedure we established for the call for papers! That means, send an abstract on “your” topic and use the forms provided for submitting abstracts.

The further process will be as follows:

• The program committee (PC) will review all abstracts. The PC has to select between different offers for presentation.
• As a result of this stage the PC will update the program with the names and titles of the presentations, which the authors will have to complete in the next stage.
• This updated program shall be finalized in March 2010.

To facilitate the whole procedure we need some additional personal information about you. Please complete the form provided for the additional information. Your personal data will only be used for the preparation of this congress.

You can submit your abstract here.

If your offer for a presentation has been selected for the Final Program, we need the written long version by the 15th of September 2010. The standard shall be an oral presentation of 15’ and 5’ for discussion.

The Guidelines for writing these long versions are published on www.iswa2010.org together with the Final Program.

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2010 ISWA World Congress has been extended to the 22nd of February 2010.

Registration for the conference Waste & Climate 3-4 December 2009 is now open

**Due more sponsor interest than anticipated we are happy to announce that we will reduce the standard conference fee with Euro 100 before local taxes apply.

This reduction will of course also apply for those delegates which have already registered for the conference.

To register please follow this link

To go to the conference site follow this link www.wasteandclimate.org

The conference is organised as a  prelude to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen 7-18 December 2009; the intention is to highlight the main messages on how intelligent waste management plays an important role in the efforts to reduce climate change. ISWA is organising a ’side event’at the COP15, which intends to bring forward the main conclusions of the conference and thereby help to put waste management on the international climate agenda as an equal partner together with other sectors, to reduce CO2 emissions.

ISWA Communication Award 2009

ISWA is proud to announce that “Waste Aware Scotland Recycling Campaign” has been awarded the ISWA Communication Award 2009.

The jury found that overall the communications campaign run by Waste Aware Scotland to enhance the recovery of waste from households and therefore to meet national recycling targets was the best of the four nominations put forward for the ISWA Communications award in 2009.  The members of the judging panel were impressed by several aspects of the communications campaign, including: • Piloting of the campaign • The buy-in from stakeholders, especially food manufacturers and retailers • Your range of presentation materials • Linking local municipalities into a national campaign • The extensive evaluation of the results. The judging panel therefore felt that this campaign could act as an exemplar for other organisations seeking to raise awareness of the considerable range of products and materials which households could place in recycling bins. The highest individual category score was given to the Valorsul nomination for the “originality” shown in promoting its anaerobic digestion plant as a facility the community could take pride in.

 

The ISWA Communication Award 2009 is now open for nominations!

The Award is designed to honour excellent waste communication campaigns that increase public awareness and promote sustainable waste management. The award is open for participation for both ISWA members and non-ISWA members.

Last day for nomination is extended to 15 July 2009.

Read more here

ISWA Communication Award 2008 to Swedish National Member WasteSweden

The first ISWA Communication Award has been give to WasteSweden – the ISWA National Member from Sweden – for their campaign on hazardous waste. This first year edition of the Award was successful and many very high quality nominations were received.

The nomination panel including representatives from the ISWA Working Group, the ISWA Board and UNEP had a difficult work to appoint one of the campaigns as the winner. The contribution from WasteSweden was selected on the basis of its professionalism and it addressed a difficullt topic but a topic of high priority. Furthermore both internal and external communication were considered and the evaluation was of high quality.

More information about the campaign itself will soon be found on the ISWA Website as well as in Waste Management World.

 The Communcation Award will handed out at the Annual Congress in Singapore.

PUBLICATION AWARD 2008

Call for papers to be considered in connection to the ISWA Publication Award 2008.

The International Solid Waste Association’s Publication Award has been designated to honour the author(s) of a publication, article or book which is deemed to be exceptional in its contribution to the field of solid waste management. The awardee will receive a cash prize of Euro 2500 and a commemorative prize.

In order to have a wide selection of papers and publications for the ISWA Publication Award 2008 the General Secretariat request all ISWA Members to send in proposals for the 2008 ISWA Publication Award.

A nomination requires, in accordance with Operational Guidelines OG 9, submission to the ISWA General Secretariat of:

• A copy of the paper, article or publication that qualifies the nominee. The material submitted must be in English, either as published or carefully translated.
• The paper, article or publication must have been published during the previous calendar year or the current calendar year.
• Biographical details of the nominee.
• A short statement by the nominator as to particular qualities of the paper, article or publication and the nominee.

The deadline for the nominations is 15 July 2008 and in the months after an ISWA Nomination Panel will read and rank the nominations received.

Please notice that members of the Board and Nomination Panel are not eligible for the award and no ISWA member may nominate him or herself

The awardee will be announced and presented on the 3 November 2008 at the opening session of the ISWA Annual Congress in Singapore. The awardee will be given the opportunity to give a small presentation during the Opening Ceremony at the Congress.

Please find an ISWA Nomination form here.

I am looking forward to receive your contribution before 15 May 2008. Either by mail at kmw@iswa.dk or by hard copy forwarded to the address mentioned below. Please notice that if you send your contribution in hard copy we need you to send 4 copies of the publication/ book/ article.

ISWA General Secretariat
Vesterbrogade 74, 3rd Floor
DK-1620 Copenhagen V
Denmark
Phone: +45 32 96 15 88
Fax:     +45 32 96 15 84

ISWA Generalversammlung am 8. Mai 2008

ISWA Communication Award 2008

Dear ISWA Member