The Future of Waste: Consumption, Governance and Regulation

Waste governance is now at a crossroad: global increases in consumption in all categories are challenging waste regimes and management strategies everywhere, and especially in the Asian region.Read More

The Future of Waste Picking | with Robert Crocker

In this conversation we speak to Cecilia Santos who has direct experience of working with waste picker communities how the world can better make use of their lives and talents.
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Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos

Born in São Paulo, Loschiavo is a philosopher and full Professor of Design in the College of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. Read More

Role of Packaging in Reducing Food Waste | with Gijs Langeveld

To what extent is food packaging creating added value? Read More

Richard Swannell

Richard is committed to working on ways of reducing man’s impact on the environment. A biochemist by training, he has a strong expertise in delivering more resource efficient and sustainable practices within businesses, and on reducing food waste and increasing recycling. Read More

Helén Williams

Helén Williams is an associate professor of Environment and Energy system and part of the multi-disciplinary Service Research Center at Karlstad University.Read More

Eliminating Construction Waste | with Robert Crocker

How can the present linear model in design and construction be replaced with a circular model?Read More

Duncan Baker-Brown

Duncan is an architect, academic and environmental activist.Read More

Sustainable Food Chains | with Gijs Langeveld

There is an overload of food waste initiatives, but which are the ones which create impact?Read More

Chris Cochran

Chris provides strategic oversight to the entire ReFED organization and all program areasRead More

Toine Timmermans

Toine Timmermans is Program Manager Circular Economy in Food at Wageningen University & Research, and Coordinator of the EU projects FUSIONS and REFRESH. Read More

The Changing Global Commodity Markets

We discuss changes over the last 2 years, following the closure of Chinese markets for plastics, and increasing concerns about paper and plastics in other South East Asian markets. Read More

Simon Rutledge

Simon has over 25 years of experience within the UK waste management and the wider safety and environmental and sustainability management field, working within the regulatory and policy making arena.Read More

The Ultimate Journey from Dump Sites to a Circular Economy – ISWA YPG 2nd Online Conference (Day 2)

Day 2 of ISWA Young Professionals Group’s second online conferenceRead More

The Ultimate Journey from Dump Sites to a Circular Economy – ISWA YPG 2nd Online Conference (Day 1)

Day 1 of ISWA Young Professionals Group’s second online conferenceRead More

Social Enterprises in Zero Waste for Profit & Purpose | by Kate Bailey

Join two global experts in exploring how the social enterprise business structure can transfer to the recycling and reuse sector. Read More

Eric Lombardi

Eric is working to connect the people and best practices from around the world to facilitate the building of Zero Waste Communities through the creation and expansion of the “Social Enterprise” model. Read More

Gerry Higgins

Gerry Higgins is Managing Director of Social Enterprise World Forum and Director of International Enterprise at Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS). Read More

Food Waste Legislation: Approaches from Europe and US

Food waste is one of the biggest challenges that the world faces today, contributing to climate change and resource depletion.Read More

Marco Ricci – Jürgensen

rco Ricci – Jürgensen is highly considered as an expert who conceives waste and recycling issues going beyond technical detailsRead More

John Fischer

John Fischer is Branch Chief for Commercial Waste Reduction and Waste Planning at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).Read More

Kat Heinrich

Kat Heinrich is a food waste specialist in Australia and winner of the 2017 GISA Women in Waste Leadership Award.Read More

Marine Plastic Pollution – Sources, Forces and Courses of Action

This expert panel reflects on the arrival of plastics in the marine environment, consider how we got here and most importantly what we can do.Read More

Louise Edge

Louise Edge is an Environmental Campaign Coordinator at GreenpeaceRead More

Libby Peake

Libby Peake is senior policy adviser on resource stewardship at Green Alliance, a UK based independent charity and think tank focused on achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.Read More

John Gertsakis

John Gertsakis is a sustainability practitioner with experience as an industry adviser, consultant, research academic and advocate. He is the co-founder of the newly formed Ewaste Watch Institute, and he co-authored Australia’s first report on e-waste recycling in 1995 titled: Short Circuiting Waste from Electronic Products. Read More

Beyond E-waste Recycling – Electronics Consumption and the Challenge of Sustainability

Ewaste Watch in Australia acts in the public interest to protect human health and the environment by accelerating increased levels of electronics sustainability from cradle to cradle. Read More

Optimizing Food Rescue Programs: Prioritizing Strategies to Deliver the Best Community Value

Expanding food recovery programs is a critical action in a community’s overall strategy to reduce wasted food, but some efforts may deliver more community value than others.Read More

Madeline Keating

Madeline Keating is an Urban Fellow with NRDC’s Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program and is the City Lead in Denver for NRDC’s Food Matters project.Read More

Elaine Blatt

Elaine Blatt is a Senior Policy and Program Analyst at Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Read More

Peter Canepa

Peter Canepa joined the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in January 2017, providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expertise to Oregon’s Materials Management program.Read More

Vaughan Levitzke

Vaughan Levitzke has more than 35 years’ experience in government, project management and leadership. Vaughan established Zero Waste SA in 2003 and is responsible for a multitude of programs and projects carried out by Zero Waste SA and its partner organisations, … Read More

Reflections on Sustainable Resource Management in Developing Economies

Novel approaches to ensure waste management in poorer countries is sustainable.Read More

What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050

A webinar which launches the World Bank report of the same name. Read More

Catalina Marulanda

Catalina Marulanda is currently the Practice Manager of the Urban Development Unit in the South Asia Region at the World Bank Group. Read More

Silpa Kaza

Silpa Kaza is an Urban Development Specialist in the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice.Read More

Managing Plastics In Your Community And The Environment

We’ll train you on how to identify, collect and reprocess the number of different plastic types using simple and practical approaches.Read More

Promising Innovation in Materials Science & Product Design

Organized on 5th Sep, 2018, as part of The 2018 Global Dialogue on Waste QUICK SUMMARY & QUOTES DANIELLA RUSSO, Founder & CEO, Think Beyond Plastic

• The world of plastic hasn’t changed in the last 50 years and it is … Read More

Next Steps to Eliminate Avoidable Plastic Waste Systematically

Emma Burlow & Kate Bailey participate in this panel organized as part of the 2018 Global Dialogue on Waste. Read More

Communications for Adaptive & Resilient Recycling Systems

Mitch Hedlund & Stephen Bates participate in this panel organized as part of the 2018 Global Dialogue on Waste.Read More

Connecting Waste Hierarchy & Circular Economy

Ad Lansink, the author of Challenging Changes, discusses the circular economy in the 2018 Global Dialogue on Waste.Read More

New Recycling Systems for United States

Jim Frey & Beth Schmitt discuss new syetms for the United States. This panel was organized as part of the 2018 Global Dialogue on Waste. Read More

Status of Landfill Diversion Options

This panel was organised as part of the New Systems for North America, theme of the 2018 Global Dialogue on WasteRead More

Developing Local Markets for Recyclables

Kate Davenport & Lynn Hoffman of Eureka Recycling discuss in this panel organized as part of the 2018 Global Dialogue on WasteRead More

Status of Recycling & Opportunities for Innovation

Cole Rosengren interviews Chaz Miller in the inaugural session of the 2018 Global Dialogue on Waste.Read More

Introducing ISWA’s Initiative for Mayors and Municipalities

Why is ISWA specifically targeting mayors and municipalities?Read More

The Basics of the European Waste Collection Systems

An in depth look at European Waste Collection Systems, providing excellent insight in topics from transportation systems to the latest collection and sorting system technologies. Read More

Christian Bremer

Christian Bremer is currently working as the Managing Director at SSI SCHÄFER. Read More

Jürgen Jacoby

Jürgen Jacoby, is the International Sales & Business Development at Envac Optibag AB.Read More

Bernd Leowald

Bernd Leowald is the head of the department Northwest at Stadtreinigung Hamburg (SRH). The SRH is the municipal waste management company in Hamburg with 2600 employees. The department Northwest is a part of Hamburg with 620.000 inhabitants and an area … Read More