Welcome

Welcome to the official NVRD/ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste Prevention and Recycling website. The conference took place on May 20^th and 21^stin Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

The conference assembled a rich and exciting program where a total of 21 speakers covered all the important topics for anyone with an interest in ‘Waste minimization and recycling’ and was acclaimed by its participants.

Comments we received include:

"I hope the organisers felt that the conference was a success – I certainly found it worthwhile being involved."

"I like to thank you all for a perfect planned and very nice conference. You have all done a tremendous work and all people I spoke to were very satisfied with all the arrangement."

“Allow me to say, that this was one of the most interesting conferences I have ever participated.
For a so difficult as well as complex issue as waste prevention is, there was a remarkable effective combination of theory and practice, in a way that I consider should be emblematic for ISWA’s events. Very careful selection of high quality speakers, topics that cover the whole spectrum of waste prevention, intensive interaction between participants - speakers and a fruitful networking were just some of the advantages.
Beside them, a very warm hospitality and well organized events allowed participants to spend some happy time between the intensive conference sessions.
As for the content, the issues of behavioral science were well balanced with the changes required on the industrial level in order to achieve waste prevention in practice. Psychology, sociology and communication science should be combined with an industrial revolution (eco-design) in order to close the cycle of a lot of materials and achieve minimum environmental impacts from production and consumption of products. “ (read more at: http://mavropoulos.blogspot.com/2010/05/great-event-in-netherlands.html)

All presentations that were presented during the conference are available on the website and can be found in the table below.

Topic	Speaker	Organization

*Thursday, May 20*
Waste Prevention and the Waste Framework Directive	Hans Christian Eberl	European Commission
Household Waste Prevention - Evidence Review	Nick Blakey	Defra
Dutch Waste Policy - from Waste to Resource	Maarten Goorhuis	NVRD
Policy Framework Conditions for Prevention and Recycling	Frans Beckers	Van Gansewinkel Groep
Waste Prevention Toolkit	Rachel Gray	WRAP
Quantative Benchmarks for Waste Prevention	Jean-Jaqcues Dohogne	ACR+
Communication on Waste Prevention	Troels Hansen	ZIBA
Waste Prevention in Flanders	Paul Dobbelaere	IVAGO
Re-use and recycling at Municipal Recycling Centre	Pål Mårtensson	City of Gotheborg
Design for Recycling & Design for Re-use	Ab Stevels	TU-Delft
Anaerobic Digestion of Biowaste	Erik Gaastra	MWH North Europe
Textile for Textile	Anton Luiken	Alcon Advies
Mechanical Separation of Plastic Packaging	Menno Koopmans	Omrin

*Friday May 21*
Material Efficiency and Resource Conservation	Stafan Bringezu	Wuppertal Institute
ISWA White Paper on Waste and Climate Change	Gary Crawford	Veolia
Material Scarcity and the Elements of Hope	André Diederen	TNO
From Cradle to Practice	Jan-Willem Scheijgrond	Philips

All Presentations (Zip-file, 23 MB)

Ab Stevels promised, in his presentation on Design for Recycling & Design for Re-use, all participants a CD-rom disc with his book Adventures in Eco Design. To save material and cost, you can download a copy of his book here (18 MB)

The last issue of the ISWA Publication Waste Management and Research was dedicated to Waste Prevention. For a 30 day trial of this journal please visit the publisher.

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ISWA and NVRD want to thank our sponsors MWH and SSI/Schäfer for making this conference possible.

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