Monday Program

Selective collection and subsoil collection, sorting facility of packaging waste and waste to energy - Register via info@iswa2015.org

Register via info@iswa2015.org

Minister-President Geert Bourgeois on behalf of the Flemish government: Why Flanders is leading the way within Europe on waste and resource management

Minister in Singapore, Grace Fu: Challenges of a megacity, characterized by fast economic growth and lack of space

David Newman, president of ISWA: vision of waste management sector

Philip Heylen on behalf of the organizing committee sets the tone for the World Congress 2015

With a special performance of the Royal Ballet of Flanders and several international artists

Moderated by Nathalie Delporte

As circular economy gains importance, the link between the use of recovered waste streams and the global market in raw materials becomes stronger. These markets will influence the future of global waste management in a way that we do not asses today. Furthermore, considering waste to be a resource is a fundamentally different approach to what we are doing at this moment.
 

Introduction by Henny De Baets (administrator of OVAM)

Dambisa Moyo (author and international economist): The global commodities market.
Ibrahim Thiaw (UNEP Deputy Executive Director and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations): Presentation of the Global Waste Management Outlook
Thomas Leysen (Umicore) - view of an industrial player
David Newman (ISWA): Reflection

Moderated by Jacki Davis

3 parallel sessions:

1. Sustainable waste management and impacts on climate change:  the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)

2. Technical solutions in waste management

3. Financial institutions