Program Expert Conference Informal activities in waste management

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1 waste management activities concern many countries around the world and need to be addressed on an international basis! Free online registration for TransWaste Expert Conference only: Find more information about the symposium Going Green - CARE INNOVATION 2010: Online Registration for Going Green - CARE INNOVATION 2010 Tutorials, Trainings and environmental Exhibition : This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF Program Expert Conference Informal activities in waste management at Going Green - CARE INNOVATION 2010 November 10th, 2010 Vienna, Austria

2 Program Expert Conference Welcome address and conference opening Session I: Informal sector - a general perspective Coffee break Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of waste in and to CEE introduction to the project TransWaste G. Obersteiner, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, AT Shadow economies all over the world new estimates for 162 countries: What do we (not) know F. Schneider, Johannes Kepler University, AT Informal activities and the relation to the key principles of core economy Mansoor Ali, The Schumacher Centre for Technology & Development, UK Role of the informal sector in solid waste management and enabling conditions for its integration experiences from GTZ E. Gunsilius, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), DE Cairo s waste managers L. Iskandar Kamel, CID Consulting, EG

3 Informal e-waste recycling sector in Ghana an indepth socioeconomic study S. Prakash, Öko-Institut, DE Program Expert Conference Session II: Assessing the contribution and impact of informal activities in waste management Lunch break Methodologies for evaluating collection amounts in the informal sector the case study of Austria S. Scherhaufer, Univ. of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, AT Doing more with less, action research techniques on quantifying informal waste and recycling activities I. Haenen, WASTE, NL Socio-economic issues in waste management by informal sector in India R. Singh, Birla Institute of Management Technology, IN Informal collection and marketing of waste/products in Lower Silesia (Poland) J. den Boer, Wameco, PL

4 Program Expert Conference Session III: Formalising, integrating, professionalising: best-practice examples of informal sector participation Lessons learned and the way forward Coffee break Session IV: Exchange Mart Speaking face-to-face with experts from all sessions IFC s experience in integrating the informal sector in waste management activities in the western balkans V. Popovska, IFC (World Bank), MK Situation of informal waste picking in Hungary Z. István, Bay Zoltán Foundation, HU Formalisation of e-waste collection and recycling in China F. Wang, United Nations Univ., CN Building on the concept of modernised mixtures: Experiences in integration of informal activities in solid waste and recycling in the pre-accession Balkans I. Haenen, WASTE, NL Lessons learned and the way forward G. Obersteiner, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, AT

5 Thank you for being part of this international networking! Leadpartner: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Institute of Waste Management Muthgasse 107, A Wien Phone: +43 (0) DIin. Gudrun Obersteiner (Project coordinator) Phone: +43 (0) gudrun.obersteiner@boku.ac.at Partnership: ARGE Waste Prevention, Resources Protection and Sustainable Development Ltd. A Graz, Dreihackengasse 1 office@arge.at Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research Institute of Logistics and Production System H Miskolctapolca, Iglói út 2 istvan.zsolt@bzlogi.hu Technische Universität Dresden Institut für Abfallwirtschaft und Altlasten D Pirna, Pratzschwitzerstr. 45 ulrike.lange@tu-dresden.de arge Abfallvermeidung Ressourcenschonung und nachhaltige Entwicklung GmbH RepaNet o.z. SK Bratislava, Mlynske nivy 56 envira@envira.sk Wameco Ryszard Szpadt, Wojciech Górnikowski PL Kamieniec Wr., ul. Malinowa 7 wameco@wameco.pl SAT Austrian Society for System Engineering and Automation A Wien, Gurkgasse 43/2 info@sat-research.at Program presented by the projectpartnership-organisations