Following the huge success of its second edition in 2014, which registered the participation of more than 200 delegates from 40 different countries worldwide, SUM 2016 – 3rd Symposium on Urban Mining will be held in the suggestive former Monastery of Saint Augustine in Bergamo’s upper city, from 23rd to 25th May 2016. Tel: +39 049 8726986
SUM 2016 will focus on the concept of Urban Mining 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 and a technical tour at a real scale plant dealing with post-consumer plastic packaging.
The Symposium will include the following topics:
• Sources and characterization of materials and energy resources in urban spaces;
• Municipal Solid Waste, commercial waste, industrial waste, WEEE, depuration sludge, municipal and industrial sewage sludge, demolition waste, food waste, waste tyres;
• Automotive Shredded Residues;
• Techniques of waste source separation;
• Criticality of the current system of separate waste collection;
• Takeback programs;
• Recovery centres (ecopoints, tip shops, waste banks, etc.);
• Technologies for the extraction of materials and resources;
• Valorization of materials and resources;
• Recirculation pathways and markets;
• Landfill mining;
• Economic and financial aspects;
• Policies and legal aspects;
• Environmental balances (Life-cycle assessment);
• Case studies.
Full papers on the Symposium themes may be submitted for inclusion in the conference programme no later than 15th February 2016. Papers will be selected following evaluation by an International panel of referees and published on a dedicated volume of Symposium proceedings.
All accepted papers will be also peer-reviewed for being included in a special issue of Waste Management Journal (the scientific journal with the highest IF – 3.220 – in the field, published by Elsevier) on “Research on Urban and Landfill Mining”
Organizers: IWWG – International Waste Working Group/Eurowaste srl
Website: http://urbanmining.it
Mail: info@urbanmining.it
Tel: +39 049 8726986
