16th International Symposium Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste, Energy
The Symposium features a multifaceted, topical and extensive programme of technical events on the topic of sustainable water and waste management.
 
Organisers:
European Water Association e. V. (EWA)
German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)
International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)
Department of Waste Management and City Cleaning (VKU)
 
Symposium topics:
 
WATER/SEWAGE MANAGEMENT
  • Municipalities Day
  • Water supply and the infrastructure—Effects of demographic change on municipal drainage systems
  • Energy efficiency of sewage-treatment plants—improved systems and working methods
  • Sewage-treatment technologies for improved drainage quality
  • Advances in remote monitoring and analysis of water and sewage
WASTE MANAGEMENT
  • Winter road services and street cleaning
    • Block 1: Winter road-services technology
    • Block 2: Street-cleaning technology
  • Sustainable management of municipal bio-waste
  • Using solid household waste to protect resources: Status quo and prospects
The Symposium events are free of charge. All presentations will be simultaneously translated in German or English language.

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16TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM WATER, WASTEWATER, SOLID WASTE, ENERGY
Symposium on Sustainable Solid Waste Management
Resource protection through valorisation of municipal waste - status quo and prospects
in cooperation with German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA), European Water Association (EWA), Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Abfallwirtschaft und Stadtreinigung VKS (VKU), International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)
Mon 05/07/2012
09:30 - 13:00 h
IFAT ENTSORGA 2012
via entrance west, ICM - Internationales Congress Center München, room 14 c
Simultaneous translation German/English, English/German

Chairman:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kranert, Universität Stuttgart

09:30 - 10:00
Public waste disposal is the optimal basis for urban hygiene and efficient utilisation of potential recycables
Helmut Schmidt, AWM, München

10:00 - 10:30
Options and limits of recycling plastic waste from urban settlements (required)

10:30 - 11:00
Do we need the incineration of non-hazardous urban solid waste?
Dipl.-Ing. Conrad Tschersich, AWG, Wuppertal

11:00 - 11:30
Break

11:30 - 12:00
Bed ash from incineration of municipal waste – recycling construction material or waste for final disposal?
Hartmut Haeming, AVG, Köln

12:00 - 12:30
Landfill mining – dream and reality
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Rettenberger, Ingenieurgruppe RUK, Trier

12:30 - 13:00
Mechanical-biological treatment of municipal waste – Is there a future without landfilling?
Dipl.-Ing. Burkhart Schulte, Gesellschaft zur Verwertung organischer Abfälle mbH + Co KG, Hille