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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Conference Presentations

Keynote Presentations

Oral Presentations

Session A - Safe final sinks

Session B - Sources, types and composition of harmful materials

Session C - Removal of harmfull substances from material cycles

Session D - Future needs for handling material flows and stocks to minimize harmful substances I

Session E - Future needs for handling material flows and stocks to minimize harmful substances II

Session F - Landfill aftercare I

Session G - Landfill aftercare II

Poster Presentations

Poster session A - Safe final sinks

Poster session B - Sources, types and composition of harmful materials

Poster session C - Removal of harmfull substances from material cycles

Poster session D-E - Future needs for handling material flows and stocks to minimize harmful substances

Poster session F-G - Landfill aftercare

Please see attached a number of presentations delivered at this year's Final Sinks Conference 2013:

Keynote Presentations

  • Welcome address by David Newman (IT), President of ISWA

  • Final sinks as key elements for building a sustainable recycling society, Paul H. Brunner (AT)

  • The landfill as a final sink for chemical wastes? – lessons to be learned from Switzerland, Roland Weber (DE)

  • Treatment of unsorted C&D waste – clarification of the state of the art and specification of a quota of recycling, Elmar Kuhn (CH)

  • Do we manage consumption wastes from a sinks point of view? Juha Kaila (FI)

     

Plenary Session Presentations

  • 23 Oral Presentations

  • 17 Poster Presentations

Program

Documentation for download:

The Program (pdf, 204 kB)

Technical visits

On the closing day of this event, the following technical visits are offered: Ämmässuo waste treatment plant and Automatic Waste Collection System - AWCS. Unfortunately, the visit to ZenRobotics Ltd. (Viikki) has been cancelled! 

The technical visits are tailor made and organized to the needs of the conference (topics) by the organizing committee and cooperation companies.

Technical visit 1: Ämmässuo waste treatment plant, Helsinki Region Environmental Services HSY (Espoo).

Technical visit 2: Automatic Waste Collection System – AWCS (pdf, 524 kB), MariMatic Ltd. (Järvenpää).

"How It Works" (MariMatic Ltd, *dropbox.com) - click this link!

Costs:

No additional costs. Registration fees to the final sinks conference include participation in the program 18 May 2013.

Bookings:

Only a limited number of places are available in the technical visits. The first ones who register for the technical visits will get the places!

Registration is done via an Online Registration System operated by TAVI Congress Bureau and is required from all participants and possible accompanying persons.

If you have any questions concerning the registration form or procedure, please contact the conference office.

For further information, please see the conference program.