TRAINING SESSION ON LANDFILL AT ISWA 2015

Monday, September 7th, 9h30 - 12h00

This interactive workshop offers an expert overview of the current issues and developing trends on landfill.

Copyright: Hooge Maey Landfill Picture © Intercommunale Vereniging Hooge MaeyLandfill remains the predominant disposal technology for waste management worldwide and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future particularly where open dumping remains current practice. It is already evident that in countries where open dumping is current practice, there are environmental pressures as well as health drivers to move towards the sanitary landfill.

This training course will take participants through the process of remediating open dumps and demonstrate how the resulting emissions can be managed. It will also address operational techniques which overcome the most legacy concerns. There will also be a case study which will demonstrate how a state of the art landfill can be remediated to provide for a truly sustainable landfill. Delegates will be able to see how this is achieved in practice by attending one of the technical tours to the Hooge Maey landfill.

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EVENING PROGRAMME: COCKTAIL & GALA DINNER

The ISWA 2015 organizing committee provides for a lot of networking opportunities for the congress attendees. Apart from the ISWA House that serves as central meeting point during the congress, there are two informal network moments:

Copyright: Sarah BleeFestive cocktail on Monday, Sept. 7: At the end of the first congress day we invite you to the welcome party with reception and finger food, kindly sponsored by Grant Thornton. Those who wish can make an exclusive and free 'night at the museum' visit to the MAS museum, and watch the Antwerp skyline from the top of the exceptional MAS building.

The reception is followed by the Diamond Cocktail, offered by the Antwerp World Diamond Center.

Gala dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 8: We welcome you at the Hilton hotel for the presentation of the ISWA Awards, followed by a surprising gala dinner. What to expect? Exquisite food, interesting company and conversations, and dazzling entertainment. Don't forget to register for the gala dinner at the end of you general registration for the congress. See you there!

SOCIAL COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION – KEY TO RAISING AWARENESS IN SWM

Breakout session on Communication, Wednesday Sept. 9, 9h30-12h00

Communication is about interaction. This in mind, the contributors of this breakout session will publish 3 blogs in the weeks prior to the congress. Goal is to develop a dialogue that can be used or referred to during the session on Communication.

The first one is written by Mrs. Sonia Dias:

"Informal pickers of recyclables in Brazil enjoy greater social and public recognition than its counterparts in other corners of the globe. One of the key reasons is that these workers got organized in cooperatives and into a national movement of pickers. The other reason was that since the early 90´s some municipalities engaged in social communication and social mobilization campaigns aimed at developing a notion of co-responsibility, amongst its citizens, towards waste management and also geared to respecting formal garbage collectors and informal pickers of recyclables."

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