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.