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May 21, 2018 - May 23, 2018

SUM2018 – 4th Symposium on Urban Mining

Bergamo, Italy

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Event Details

Begins: May 21, 2018

End: May 23, 2018

Event Location: Bergamo, Italy

Website: http://www.urbanmining.it

Event Organizer

Event Organizer: Euro Waste - IWWG

Contact Person: Laura Contessi

Phone Number: +39 049 8726986

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Overview

Following the huge success of its second edition in 2016, which registered the participation of more than 200 delegates from 40 different countries worldwide, SUM 2018 – 4th Symposium on Urban Mining and Circular Economy will be held Bergamo’s upper city, from 21st to 23rd May 2018. SUM 2018 will focus on the concept of Urban Mining and Circular Economy and the need to look beyond separate collection and the current logic of consumers responsibility, resulting in an increased recovery of resources, better quality of the same, improved environmental protection, involvement of producer responsibility and lower costs for society.

The Symposium will last three days and will include oral sessions, a poster session, startups sessions, workshop sessions and a technical tour at a real scale plant dealing with post-consumer plastic packaging.

 

The Symposium will include the following topics:

 

1. EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ASPECTS
Takeback programs (refund, service sharing, leasing concepts, etc)
Recirculation pathways and markets
Waste and wastewater avoidance and management programs
Communication campaigns 
Educational private and public projects
 
2. VALORIZATION OF MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Sources and characterization of materials resources in urban areas (MSW, commercial waste, WEE, municipal sewage sludge, construction and demolition waste, food waste, scrap tires)
Automotive shredded residues treatment and reuse
Oil recovery, treatment and reuse
Water and wastewater reuse programs

3. APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR MATERIALS RECOVERY
Technologies for the extraction of valuable materials
Landfill mining
Water and wastewater recovery technologies
Sewage sludge materials recovery
Biorefinery for material recovery 
 
4. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS
Waste disposal fee
Financial incentives
Effectiveness of bans and fines
 
5. POLICY AND LEGAL ASPECTS
Technical regulations on ‘End of waste’
Regulation ddressing the transportation of raw waste matarials (national and international transport)
National and local regulations 
 
6. TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR URBAN MINING ENHANCEMENT
Techniques of waste segregation
Separate collection
LCA and Environmental Impact assessment 

7. CRITICAL EMERGENT ASPECTS
Fate of contaminants in recycling
Carbon and water footprint of material recycling
Urban mining: cost-benefit analysis
 
8. WASTE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN SPACE
Waste community centres (Ecopoints, Tip shops, Waste Banks)
Recovery of abandoned urban areas
 
9. URBAN MINING AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY CONCEPTS IN EMERGING AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

 

The deadline for short papers submission is 31st January 2018

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