Hosted by London Remade
Supported by the Mayor of London, the London Development Agency, London Councils, Defra and the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Thursday 31 January & Friday 1st February 2008
Royal Institute of British Architects
66 Portland Place, London, W1
Programme - English - French - Spanish
Submitted papers not presented at the conference can be downloaded below (see end of page).
Proceedings
DAY 1 - Thursday 31 January 2008
- Welcome (PDF 1.4KB) - Jean-Pierre Hannequart (President, ACR+, Belgium)
- Welcome (PDF 700KB) - Daniel Silverstone (Chief Executive, London Remade, UK)
Session 1: the impact of waste management on climate change
- Keynote speech: the role of waste in creating a sustainable world city - Shirley Rodrigues (Head of Environment, Greater London Authority, UK)
- Tackling climate change: renewable gases and liquid fuels from waste (PDF 7 MB) - Allan Jones MBE (Chief Executive, London Climate Change Agency, UK)
Session 2: life-cycle analysis and other methods of impact assessment
- Introduction - Steve Lee (Chief Executive, CIWM, UK)
- Municipal waste outlook: better waste management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (PDF 400 KB) - Mette Skovgaard (European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management, Denmark)
- Decision making tools: life cycle analysis, cost benefits analysis and social impact assessment (PDF 4 MB) - Alessandro Mengozzi (Researcher, University of Bologna, Italy)
Session 3: energy balance of waste prevention and reuse
- Introduction (PDF 1MB) - Francis Radermaker (Scientific Director, ACR+, Belgium)
- Using carbon balance to measure CO2 emissions from products and waste (PDF 200 KB) - Rémi Guillet (Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development and Planning, France)
- Measuring the carbon benefits of remanufacture and reuse (PDF 5 MB) - David Parker (Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse, UK)
Session 4: energy balance of recycling
- Environmental benefits of recycling: review of life cycle comparisons for key materials in the UK recycling sector (PDF 4.2 MB) - Keith James (Environmental Policy Manager, WRAP, UK)
- The waste sector's contribution to climate protection in Germany (PDF 500 KB) - Susanne Hempen (Federal Ministry of the Environment, Germany)
- Energy balance of recycling: paper and plastics (PDF 1 MB) - Claude Vanderputten (Centre for Sustainable Development, Belgium)
DAY 2 - Friday 1 February 2008
- Keynote speech - Councillor Merrick Cockell (Chairman, London Councils, UK)
- Waste, climate change and sustainable development - Peter Head (Director, Arup, UK)
Session 5: energy balance of organic and residual waste management
- The environmental balance of anaerobic digestion of organic waste in the Brussels Region (PDF 2.1 MB) - Michael Ooms (Director, RDC Environment, Belgium)
- Greenhouse gas balances of residual waste management scenarios (PDF 1.5 MB) - Adam Baddeley (Senior Consultant, Eunomia, UK)
- Greenhouse gas balances of residual waste management scenarios (PDF 4 MB) - Wayne Hubbard (Strategy Manager - Waste, Greater London Authority, UK)
Session 6: energy balance of waste collection and transport
- A comparison of greenhouse gas emissions from centralised and household treatment of food waste (PDF 100 KB) - Dr Alan Knipe (Environmental Consultant, UK)
- Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from solid waste collections (PDF 5 MB) - Thuy Nguyen, Civil Engineering Dept, University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- Closing speech - Jean-Pierre Hannequart (President, ACR+, Belgium) - Available soon
Submitted papers not presented at the conference (compiled per topic):