Transcript Waste Management

Sustainable Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region: the RECO
Baltic 21 Project
Prof. Walter Leal
HAW Hamburg, Germany
Outline
• Waste management: a challenge for sustainable
development
• The project RECO Baltic 21 Tech
• The goal and the activities
• The partnership
• Conclusions
• Invitation!
Walter – at a glance
•Professor at HAW Hamburg (DE),
London Metropolitan University (UK)
and visiting at Uppsala University
(SE)
• Head of the Research and Transfer
Centre „Applications of Life Sciences“
at HAW Hamburg
• Coordinator or partner in a number
of international projects
• Cooperate with MESI in Summer
Courses and seminars, as well as
with some planned projects.
Waste Management: challenge for sustainable
development- The hierarchy at a glance
The need for sustainable waste management
• Apart from the fact that many European countries have no space for
landfills, sustainable waste management makes eco-financial sense
• “Traditional” waste disposal is a costly exercise
• Good news: changes in legislation are now largely against
conventional means of waste disposal
•Technological developments mean that waste can be turned into a
resource
•There is a pressing need to use and develop further technologies
and intelligent ways to manage the waste problems seen today.
The project RECO Baltic 21 Tech
The project RECO Baltic 21 Tech
•It is an Interreg IVB (Baltic Sea) project, running from November
2010 to October 2013
•It congregates academic partners, municipalities, waste
management enterprises and NGOs interested in sustainable waste
management from across the Baltic
•It has a budget of Euro 2,3m
•Its activities entail research, analysis of case studies and the
preparation of concrete waste management plans for the partner
cities.
THE GOAL
To improve the local and regional capacity to
apply the process of implementing sustainable
WM that catalyse the execution of the EU
directives and supports the region to climb in the
waste hierarchy.
THE ACTIVITIES
• Pilot projects with an emphasis on:
– Technical elements
– Environmental aspects
– Investment potentials
• SME improvement
• MEDA cooperation
• WM Institution
The Toolbox
WP 2 –
•promotion.dissemination-networking
WP 3 –
•decision making tool
•procurement
•WMPs
•feasability studies
WP 4 –
•procurement
•business plan
•investors
WP 5 –
•database
• tech suppliers
• expert pool
• financing sources
•Study-tours (products)
•Training programmes
The expected results
• The target for RECO Baltic 21 Tech is to generate investments of 20
MEURO. The investments will make the BSR region more competitive
by catalysing waste management investments and attracting more
investors and funds to the region.
• Together with its planned Joint Strategy, including the Investment
Model and accompanied by a waste management institution, it will
create a good basis for increasing the Competitiveness of the Region
but also for boosting the transferability of the results on all levels
within the BSR, but also throughout Europe.
The partnership
Conclusions
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!
INVITATION!
"Waste management technologies in the Baltic"
St. Petersburg, Russia, June 22, 2011 at the Department of Information and Telecommunications.
The seminar is chaired by:
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Prof. Walter Leal, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
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Prof. Irina Butorina, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University
The seminar will focus on the organizational, technical and legal issues of waste management in the
Baltic
countries.
Participation in the seminar is free for invited lecturers and guests. Travel and accommodation are not
covered
by the organisers. Information on the conference and on the terms of participation will be sent to
interested
delegates. Further details from: [email protected]
AND ONE MORE INVITATION!
AND ONE MORE INVITATION!
The Summer Course consists of seven Modules:
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Module I: Overview of the Climate Change Challenges in River Basin Management in
the Baltic Sea
Module II: Putting in a legal frame: towards climate change policies in the Baltic
Module III: Common property and open access regimes in the context of water
management and good governance
Module IV: The European Water Framework Directive - Implications on river
management in the Baltic
Module V: New Scientific and Technological Basis for Assessing Climate Change and
Land-Use Impacts on Groundwater Module VI: Environmental management and
legislation
Module VII: Approaches, methods and case studies on sustainable river basin
management in the Baltic Sea