Thorben Knust

Specialist in Integrated Waste Management

Senior consultant with over ten years of international experience in the management of sustainable development projects. Specialist in integrated waste management and circular economy. Responsible for the development of the Master Plan for integral waste management for the Metropolitan District of Quito. Developer of several solid waste projects such as “Quito a Reciclar”, waste data information systems and author of the waste sector of the “Environmental Atlas 2016”, several publications and studies of waste treatment mechanisms in Quito and Ecuador. Co-founder of the initiative “Recicla Esperanza”.
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