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Newsletter of the ISWA 2015 World Congress – Number 4, February 2015

4 TO 12 MILLION TONS OF PLASTIC WASTE ENDS UP IN OCEANS ON ANNUAL BASIS

A recent study by researchers at the University of Georgia and the Sea Education Association in Massachusetts shows that about 10 to 30 times more plastic garbage ends up in the oceans than surveys have found floating about on the surface. Once plastic reaches the oceans it forms floating waste, washes up on coastlines, and accumulates on sea floors. The pollution is extremely difficult to remove from the environment or trace back to its source. Without major improvements in waste management efforts, this annual figure could double over the next decade, scientists warn.

Join our sessions about Marine Litter at ISWA 2015.

TRAINING SESSIONS ON SEVERAL TOPICS AT ISWA 2015

Landfill
This training session will be conducted by the ISWA Working Group on Landfill in cooperation with the city of Antwerp. The session is intended for participants of the ISWA World Congress coming from regions where sanitary landfills are currently being established. The training session will take place on-site at the Hooge Maey landfill and will focus on Landfill operation.

Waste to Energy
Keppel Seghers and Indaver will host a training session on Waste to Energy at the ISVAG incineration plant in Antwerp. More info will be published on the new website, which will be launched in a few weeks. If you are interested in attending this session, please register as soon as possible, as the number of places will be limited. For more info about ISVAG, check out our "partner or the month" section below.

Hazardous waste
IHE Unesco will invite 25 students from Africa for a one-week summer course on hazardous waste management. As part of this course, the students will participate in the ISWA World Congress where they will attend a special training session on HWM.

"WECYCLERS' MISSION IS TO IGNITE THE WASTE REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA"

bilikissBilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, our opinion leader of the month, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wecyclers, a social enterprise working to provide households in low-income communities with value from their waste. In her blog post she explains how the idea of Wecyclers was born and how the organization is helping low-income neighborhoods in Lagos, Nigeria, with their waste disposal.

Bilikiss is a graduate of Fisk University, Vanderbilt University and MIT's Sloan School of Management. Bilikiss is a Carroll Wilson Fellow, an Echoing Green Fellow, MIT D-lab scale-ups fellow and is a 2013 recipient of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. Follow @bilikiss on Twitter or take a look at the website: http://wecyclers.com. You can contact Bilikiss via Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!.

Read her blogpost here

Your opinion matters too! In each of our monthly newsletters, we give a blogger, analyst, journalist or other opinion leader the opportunity to share his or her thoughts on waste management related topics. Each of them will also be invited at our World Congress to enter the debate. Share your thoughts with us: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! 

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